"Sony has won its request for a temporary restraining order in its PS3 jailbreak case against Geohot and fail0verflow, despite a jurisdictional technicality. At the same time, the judge at the US District Court for the Northern District of California has allowed Sony to keep the lawsuit in San Francisco. The restraining order forbids the jailbreak team from distributing or linking the jailbreak procedure, or encouraging others to jailbreak or hack their PS3 or PSN. They've also been ordered to turn over any computers or storage media used to create the jailbreak to Sony's lawyers." Land of the free fail.
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Member since:2006-07-16
What!?!?!? Did I wake up in Communist Russia this morning and not realize it? This action by Sony and these "judges" is futile. Anyone with half a brain knows this. This lawsuit will not stop people like GeoHot from hacking their hardware; rather it will merely incite ever more hackers to be even bolder and more brazen with doing whatever they want with HARDWARE THEY OWN!! If I were a current "owner" of a PS3 (or any Sony product for that matter) I'd box the piece of junk up and send it to Sony's headquarters with a letter demanding all or most of my money back since it is Sony and not I who obviously owns the hardware. In fact, I'd do the same with all of my old, broken Sony hardware too: televisions, radios, CD players etc... after all, Sony owns them, let them pay to dispose of them.
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This action by Sony and these "judges" is futile. Anyone with half a brain knows this. This lawsuit will not stop people like GeoHot from hacking their hardware
Indeed. I was just thinking to myself that this is really like throwing pure gasoline in an open fire and hoping it'll douse the flames: now people will continue hacking and cracking Sony's stuff just in spite of them, quite the reverse Sony wanted.
Oh well, Sony as a company really sucks nowadays and you can bet that they'll continue to make themselves look like even bigger asshats than before.
Member since:2005-08-09
You own hardware, but you do not own the PSN.
There are a lot of things that depends on console security - paid content distribution / trophies / multiplayer / game modification protection.
Now all that things are lost.
So anyone can pirate software, use trophies unlockers (automatically drawing the system almost useless), cheat in multiplayer, etc
So honest people, who bought games/content, will suffer from it.
GeoHot has accepted license what he will not reverse engineer the thing. And that can lead to certain consequences.
So if for example somebody makes the keys from your home and give it to some random thief. I guess you will be very glad and make that person your best friend.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/first-sale-doctrine/
Excerpt form the wired article:
"The first-sale doctrine of 1909, in its current form, allows the “owner of a particular copy” of a copyrighted work to sell or dispose of his copy without the copyright owner’s authorization. “The first sale doctrine does not apply to a person who possesses a copy of the copyrighted work without owning it, such as a licensee,” the court ruled."
It's all in those last sentence. It has to do with difference in licensee rights
Most software you dont license to resell, modify ect, you only buy the right of usage.
I noticed this in the terms of condition of most software. Dont modify is among them.
PS3 Terms of use
http://www.ps3news.com/forums/playstation-3-news/sonys-ps3-system-s...
Part of the PS3 license agreement
"2. RESTRICTIONS
You may not lease, rent, sublicense, publish, modify, adapt, or translate any portion of the System Software. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the System Software, or create any derivative works, or otherwise attempt to create System Software source code from its object code. You may not (i) use any unauthorized, illegal, counterfeit, or modified hardware or software in connection with the System Software, including use of tools to bypass, disable, or circumvent any encryption, security, or authentication mechanism for the PS3™ system; (ii) violate any laws, regulations or statutes, or rights of SCE, its affiliated companies, or third parties in connection with your access to or use of the System Software, including the access, use, or distribution of any software or hardware that you know or should have known to be infringing or pirated; (iii) use any hardware or software to cause the System Software to accept or use unauthorized, illegal, or pirated software or hardware; (iv) obtain the System Software in any manner other than through SCE's authorized distribution methods; or (v) exploit the System Software in any manner other than to use it in your PS3™ system in accordance with the accompanying documentation and with authorized software or hardware, including use of the System Software to design, develop, update, or distribute unauthorized software or hardware for use in connection with the PS3™ system for any reason. Without limiting the scope of SCE's remedies, any violation of these restrictions will void the PS3™ system's warranty and affect your ability to obtain warranty services and repair services from SCE or its affiliated companies."
I'm not saying that i'm in principle against what Geohot did. Enabling "other os" function.
The removal of the other os ability from Sony in my eyes is also a sort of contravention of sales agreement.
Norway consumer's council for instance is looking into this.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/27/claims.some.updates.a...
It's unfortunate and we dont like it, but as it stand it's the way it is.
When you buy certain things you dont actually "own" it in the true sense of the word.
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The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
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Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
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So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
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2006-04-10
I hope they turn over a VIC-20 and a 5.25 inch floppy with a copy of the code on it. Lt them try to prove that wasn't the machine he used to do the job.
I was almost thinking that I might buy a PS3 too, since maybe I could run homebrew (and Linux) on it again. Never mind, Sony, I'll just keep my money.