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:
- 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”).
- 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.
- Engaging in acts of circumvention of TPMs in the PS3 System to access, obtain, remove, or traffic in copyrighted works.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
XisTG
let’s hope this isn’t a Jurassic Park for Sony: too little and too late to stop dinossaurs from taking over.
DrNate86
Is there any news on the numerous sites already posting the information and providing the keys (or something, I don’t really understand how it works) in order to hack the ps3? Do they have to take the info down or will it remain in the wild?
kevatron400
Wait… so how am I going to get free games now?
solidsteven
By stealing them from retailers. You may have to wait few year to play them but it’s free if you hid them.:P LOL just so i won’t be accused of encourageing theft.:P
fattyuk
Brilliant!
Why doesnt this obviously intelligent lad use his knowledge to actually achieve something people will respect rather than being no better than a dirty criminal which his pathetic excuses it’s only for Linux blah blah blah
beeje13
I agree that he is a petty criminal, plus it was his fault in the first place that linux and OtherOS was taked away in the first place.
JesseDeya
I can, and I didn’t have to commit crimes, damage industry, facilitate piracy or ruin communities to achieve it.
Hotz has what coming to him. He’s not a hero, he’s a misguided uber geek.
fattyuk
He’s clever don’t get me wrong but he’s childish with his intelligence.
solidsteven
I think it is a bit too late for Sony as the software that is needed to hack into the ps3 is still out there but i have to admit i thought they would just sit back and update the sercuity every week instead of being proactive. I’m surpised that none of the other companies have thought of this.
esir
meh Hotz is a homophone for the word “thief” in Romanian. No wonder this guys a prick
JesseDeya
That’s pretty funny :)
spudmcgraw
Haha Sony laying the smackdown on him, what happens when he breaks the injunction? Will they send the boys round!
fattyuk
He’ll end up in a legal court.
bigdon23
Call me what ever you like but:
I find it rather funny that 1 guy sat in his room can bring a massive corporation to its knees,
theres hope for the human race yet!