perhaps-it-was-getting-too-hot dept
Mon, Apr 11th 2011 1:30pm
Mike Masnick
Sony has been getting widely slammed across the gaming and tech press for its bizarre and self-destructive lawsuit against George Hotz (Geohot), for jailbreaking the PS3 in order to re-enable a feature that Sony had long-advertised, but then deleted off of people s existing PS3s. The entire lawsuit made little sense, and Sony s quixotic attempt to continue to pursue it just got more and more bizarre, with the company even seeking and gaining access to the IP addresses of people visiting his website or watching the YouTube video he put up. However, it appears that the two sides have now settled their lawsuit, with Geohot agreeing to an injunction of some sort that apparently bars him from helping make PS3s more valuable in the future. Congrats, Sony, you ve made your gaming devices less valuable. Quite a legal victory there.
don t-complain-until-you re-in-his-shoes. dept
Wed, Apr 13th 2011 7:11pm
Mike Masnick
Via Slashdot, comes the news that a bunch of George Hotz (geohot) supporters are angry he decided to settle with Sony, as we recently discussed. Part of this is due to some of Geohot s own bluster during the lawsuit, including this statement: What if SCEA tries to settle? Let s just say, I want the settlement terms to include OtherOS on all PS3s and an apology on the PlayStation blog for ever removing it. It d be good PR for Sony too, lord knows they could use it. I m also willing to accept a trade, a legit path to homebrew for knowledge of how to stop new firmwares from being decrypted.