Sony Lawyers Going To The Limits: Threaten To Sue Anyone Who Posts PS3 Jailbreak Code

As of Friday, Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or “distributing” the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console.

What’s more of an extreme measure, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video posted on the YouTube page. Sony is also demanding Twitter to provide the identities of a host of hackers who first unveiled a limited version of the hack in December (Referring to the fail0verflow team here)

Sony’s aggressive pretrial discovery demands come in its lawsuit against Geohot (George Hotz). The 21-year-old New Jersey hacker, who is well known in the jailbreaking community for making jailbreak programs for Apple’s iPhones, published the finished PlayStation 3 code and a how-to YouTube video last month. The code enables the Playstation 3 to play pirated and homebrewed games.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/2011/02/09/sony-lawyers-limits-threaten-sue-posts-ps3-jailbreak-code/#ixzz1DrWZqsUC

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PS3 3.55 Jailbroken By Geohot

GeoHot is well known in the iPhone scene but what happens when he begins diversifying himself in more than one particular field? He becomes a total Badass.

GeoHot has managed to crack the PS3′s current Firmware 3.55 and render it jailbroken. All you PS3 owners better get ready to download the new Firmware version within the next couple of days.

After successfully implementing Homebrew on 3.55 he has now managed to go even further.

I can forsee a future where Sony and Geohot play a game of cat and mouse where Sony releases a FW version and then Geohot cracks it, I can for see that people like me who simply want to enjoy the variety of online games for the PS3 will have to download a new firmware more frequently now which is going to be an even bigger burden. 

This first crack is the first of many to come, Maybe Sony will give in and call in GeoHot’s offer for

“if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me. any of you 3. It’d be fun to be on the other side.”

Of course by any 3 he is referring to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo respected makers of the PS3, XBOX 360 and Wii. 

Maybe all this stuff is a publicity gimmick so that he can have job security in this rough economy?

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