Sony Freeze Hotz

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It’s a good day for Sony in the battle against piracy. We’ve reported earlier that the Sony ban-hammer appears to be in full swing and how they have be granted a temporary restraining order against PS3 hacker, George Hotz. Now we have some more details. The following is taken from a court document regarding the case:

The court finds that SCEA has shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its claims for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and that it will suffer irreparable harm unless defendant Hotz’s violations are enjoined.

The court also finds that a temporary restraining order and order of impoundment are necessary to prevent immediate and irreparable injury to SCEA, before the hearing on the order regarding the preliminary injunction can take pace, and to preserve the status quo.

The restraining order is very comprehensive, if Hotz so much as looks at a PS3 he’s in trouble. George and his team are banned from:

  1. Offering to the public, creating, posting online, marketing, advertising, promoting, installing, distributing, providing, or otherwise trafficking in any circumvention technology, products, services, methods, codes, software tools, devices, component or part thereof, including but not limited to the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (“ECDSA”) Keys, encryption and/or decryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter program, Signing Tools, 3.55 Firmware Jailbreak, root keys, and/or any other technologies that enable unauthorised access to and/or copying of PS3 Systems and other copyrighted works (hereinafter, “Circumvention Devices”).
  2. Providing links from any website to any other website selling, offering for sale, marketing, advertising, promoting, installing, importing, exporting, offering to the public, distributing, providing, posting, or otherwise trafficking in any Circumvention Devices.
  3. Engaging in acts of circumvention of TPMs in the PS3 System to access, obtain, remove, or traffic in copyrighted works.
  4. Engaging in unauthorised access to the PS3 System or the PlayStation Network in order to obtain, access, or transmit any program, code, information or command therein.
  5. Publishing, posting, or distributing any information, code, program, instructions, video, or other mateiral obtained by circumventing TPMs in the PS3 System or by engaging in unauthorised access to the PS3 Sysytem or the PSN.
  6. Assisting, facilitating or encouraging others to engage in the conduct set forth above in Nos. 1-5

He also has ten days to hand over “computers, hard drives, CD-roms, DVDs, USB sticks, and any other storage devices on which the Circumvention Devices are stored.”

Source: Eurogamer / PSX Scene / MCV

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33 Comments

  1. I thought he would have looked like this…
    http://mangeorge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nerd.jpg
    he looks suprisingly young, obviously very clever. must be minted!

  2. Great article and good news. What happened to just enjoying your PS3 for games and movies?

    • That’s what i’ve been wondering

    • That’s what i was thinking with all the good games the guy wastes his time resulting in getting in trouble.He should have enjoyed the good games.

  3. So on to the Xbox now instead then?

    • I heard microsoft wants George Howtz to work with them to help with a new software on a new dvice as Sony and Apple hate George for what he done. I may be wrong though I could try and find the source. Also the pic is old he might have long hair and of course older now. I’ll find it now. *Searches for por…. eh George Howtz.*

  4. PWNED!!!!1!!1one!!11

    What… someone had to. Good to see Sony winning their case really. I fear this wont do much though, as the devices and codes are out there now, difficult to stop.

  5. Serves him right.

  6. this is a really good outcome for SONY, serve Hotz right!

  7. This Is where Nelson Muntz pops his head out of nowhere…. “Haa Haa !”

  8. He got what he deserved,I don’t hate him but I hate what he’s done to the sony community.

  9. He deserved it

  10. Looks a fairly harmless, unassuming chap. It’s a shame he’s used such a bright mind and obvious talent to do what he’s done. Such is the power that Sony will have, I’ve felt for some time that it was always going to end this way (which is to say, the correct way).

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