Sony Takes Legal Action Against Infamous PS3 Hacker GeoHot

[lenuke]

Sony's next step: Shut down the Internet.

[xUb3rn00dlEx]

Hahaha... I think it's about time we started organizing our own campaign to retaliate against SONY and they're BS. Their employment of scare tactics is cowardly at best, but effective (in America atleast) as every little kid will crap their pants with this info.

We need to come together and organize our thoughts into fighting back, either with scare tactics, boycotts, protests, or even further. Hell, why don't we set a date, gather up masses, and have a SONY store sit in?

[shummyr]

All the stuff that sony has been pulling lately is getting out of hand, scaring people, hunting people down and what not...

[TUHTA]

haha

[aboy014]

sony have surely asked a japanese judge to to rights but asks it to a american or a europian judge.. F-Sony!

[joffe]

A nice article that I've read describes the situation very well: torrentfreak.com/the-revolution-will-not-be-properly-licensed-110304/

[hunterrr]

this part explains a lot: "Sony’s reasons for requesting such a wide-reaching subpoena are two fold: First, they want to show how pervasive Hotz’s PS3 jailbreak is. And second, they want to provide evidence that a large number of people in northern California downloaded the jailbreak file, which would help justify them suing Hotz in San Francisco rather his home-state of New Jersey."

I don't think they're doing anything to the people that downloaded the file, just proving a point in the case to help win...

[barrybarryk]

Exactly, besides they'd have to get the ISP logfiles for each IP range to identify anyone. It's just the normal people overreacting that seems to be happening a lot recently.

[nickxab]

What's their problem ? They dug their grave and now they try to catch everyone...

Sorry Sony but you lose respect from your fanboys (including me).

[ilikeitindabutt]

Well this is sony trying desperately to get the courts in California will they win i doubt it because if they are gonna compare to that state to others they should include the whole world cause im sure there is more ppl downloading the file then just Northern california.

And why is this judge even allowing this to happen in the first place now this place is getting ip addresses from other countries and do they have that right because a judge from that states approved it. When does it become illegal is it as soon as you download it or is it after you unzip the file or is it after you use it ?

i don't give care what sony says i will always gather the files and share them since these programs are not made by sony they are open to public whether not they offer the option to allow access to MY PS3 OR NOT. That's right MY PS3.