117w ago - Last week Sony officially
addressed PS3 piracy and PSN bans, and today IGN (linked above) reports that they are forming a PlayStation 3 Anti-Piracy Program and hiring online investigators to assist in protecting their Intellectual Property and overseeing anti-piracy civil lawsuits.
To quote: "Two new
job listings posted on SCEA's Web site reveal the company is getting serious about PlayStation 3 software piracy.
Sony is looking for a new Senior Corporate Counsel and a Senior Paralegal for Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection. The main responsibilities include "assessing annual SCEA corporate anti-piracy needs and addressing the needs through developing and implementing an anti-piracy program."
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Senior Corporate Counsel, Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection - Requisition ID 02289
United States - California - San Francisco Bay Area - Foster City
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Senior Paralegal, Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection - Requisition ID 02288
United States - California - San Francisco Bay Area - Foster City
"The program to be developed will require a strong strategic online component (taking input from and working with SCEA Marketing, SCEA Strategic Business Development Latin America and SCEA Product Development)," the listing reads.
The jobs also require "collaborating with other anti-piracy organizations, including those of affiliated Sony Computer Entertainment companies, Sony Corporation and the videogame industry's trade association, the Entertainment Software Association."
Other responsibilities ask for "overseeing anti-piracy civil lawsuits and providing support to law enforcement and intellectual property agencies on behalf of SCEA."
Additionally, one of the requirements is having "knowledge of online investigative practices and online databases (e.g. how to find owner, administrator, ISP associated with a given domain name, etc.)"
Sony
recently took famed iPhone hacker
George Hotz to court after he and another group of
hackers unlocked the PlayStation 3's security and later published the data online.
Since then, homebrew applications to run pirated software have hit the net, and one of Sony's major first-party titles, Killzone 3, was
reportedly leaked two weeks before its release."
There's no such thing as DREX firmware, D-REX is REX but installable on DEX firmware. Once you install D-REX, you end up on REX.
So this sentence s...
Even the police has not the possiblity to come to your house and search for something withouot a reason but SONY does this without asking anybody ! Next time maybe someone is standing in my living room to search for something illegal ?
They have the right to limit the access to the PSN but from where do they know if you are doing something illegal ?
BECAUSE THEY ARE THIEVES !!
So the Thieves are SONY itself... think about it... what's coming next from them ??