Sony has asked for a restraining order against George Hotz and the so-called fail0verflow group over the recent ‘jailbreak’ hacks against the PlayStation 3, along with a few other unnamed entities.
Rather than a straight lawsuit over copyright infringement (or otherwise), it looks like Sony are citing Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and requesting that all “circumvention tools” be taken offline.
Indeed, Geohot’s website has been updated to reflect this, with the restraining order request published on there (and on Engadget) as PDFs – looks like Sony just want the ‘jailbreak’ taken off the web.
We’ll update as we can.
Source: Engadget.
TheSixthAxis does not condone piracy and does not recommend the modification of your console – doing so is against the Terms of Use of the console and is possibly illegal.
fattyuk
How do you report a user using illegal software someone on my friends list was using something called blackb0x FTP? And I would like to report them
ElGuason
well honestly i hope sony succeeds and gets what they want.
Kanaaju
I don’t really mind the pirated games. I mean, I would pirate some games myself, cause I live in a country where everything is twice as expensive as it is in America and the pay is 3 times smaller…I myself as an example shows that pirates wouldn’t really boost the market much, cause we just don’t have enough money to buy it regardless. I’d be happy to save up for some really cool games tho to support the companies..