Sony has sued the hackers behind a device which is said to allow piracy on the PS3 – sales of the device have been banned whilst the court action proceeds.
Pending legal action by Sony against the Australian developers and sellers of the device has resulted in a temporary injunction on the sale and distribution of the “Jailbreak” device:
[The court] orders that up to and including 31 August 2010, the First to Fourth Respondents and each of them, whether by themselves, their servants or agents, be restrained from doing any of the following acts with respect to all and any Universal Serial Bus devices described as “PSJailbreak” [...]:
(a) importing them into Australia with the intention of providing them to another person;
(b) distributing them to another person;
(c) offering them to the public;
(d) providing them to another person; and/or
(e) otherwise dealing in them.
The injunction expires at the end of August – depending on the decision of the court, sales may recommence or may be further halted.
The Australian company which developed the supposed hack, as well as a reseller, have both ceased taking orders in compliance with the order – the manufacturer has apparently even cancelled and refunded all pre-orders of the device.
Perhaps more importantly, the court has also ordered the makers to deliver technical samples of the device to Sony for analysis as part of the case – doubtless Sony engineers will be keen to develop countermeasures based on these samples.
Just what will become of the hack is not clear – the developers have already conceded that it is likely Sony will likely be able to defeat it easily with firmware updates, and without the benefit of a piracy-friendly legal environment it seems likely Sony will be able to drag them through the courts for some time.
Although it has not been conclusively demonstrated by independent parties that the hack actually works as advertised, Sony evidently takes the threat very seriously.
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to bad the ps3 does not even have games worth playing
fail 2007 troll is fail
hey that took a while
Damn it! This is fucking bull shit! Fuck you, Sony, you assholes!
On a side note, that must mean this was the real deal. :D
I fail to see how this is bad, it's actually quite good. I wish to see how much they are suing.
You know what?
Fuck Sony!
Fuck You
No U!
better idea, you both can suck my cock.
If only they can make a good defense in this case.I remember watching the Jailbrake video the person who made the video said you can make Back-up copy of the games even make Homebrew games on the PS3.
It's obvious what they'll do now
Examine the device so they can fight it with ease, then allow sales to continue
They'll sell more consoles even if people know Sony have a way of blocking it, people will still hope to get around it
no, I plan specifically if possible to just get a seperate system and leave it with its current firmware, and use it simply for backups and other homebrew.
Why is that no? You just proved my point that they'll sell more consoles
I never go online on my PS3 anyway (I get most of my games on Xbox) so I'm sorted for sticking to my current firmware
The gates have been opened can't wait till tis mass produced like the DS stuff...they will never block it.
O man, and I though I'd finally buy a ps3. I even had plans of buying a few original games I would never miss....
thank you hacker!
thank you for hacking ps3.
Black Market, here I come...
duhhh.... geee! I didn't thunk Sownee wood soo someones hoo tride to sell crackers for there sistem?
how is this news?
they're just trying to make an example out of them for other hackers..if there's one mod there will be others.
I hope the court shuts them down for good.
in your dreams bitch,
Too late Sony.
too bad your precious PS3 is now a pirate haven.
Huh. It didn't work. Not surprised, really.
Mysterious Voice: "At least they're pro-active. Better than Microsuck hastily trying to fix the problem when it's too late."
This reminds me of what they tried to do with the R4 series as well as custom firmware on PSPs. Someone tried to illegalize them and ran into a bit of a roadblock - each of these actually enhances the abilities of the system. For some reason or another, this caused the ban to cease.
-face palms-
if they didn't show these devices online to begin with ans sold them secretly this lawsuit could've been avoided
Idiots. What kind of morons would do this and think they could make money off it instead of just telling the public how to do it instead? what a bunch of morons..
cause the persons probably had to buy special hardware/spend a lot of money to make it...
so if you spend 20 000 usd on something would you give it away for free? just saying;.
only morons think that it costs 0 usd to make a hack.
and the persons that don't do it for a profit keep it private.
Now thats weird, i swore sony was going to just up the system and kill the device UNLESS sony could turn this to a advantage, by buying the rights, selling it underlow(makes it look like the crackers are the ones selling) and screw everyone later with a update, it sounds crazy but it just mite work.
hmm i think its better if they just change the jailbreak into a cheat device like codebreaker or gameshark.
Hackers have been trying to hack the PS3 for many years and to no success not because of lawsuits and being sued, but that it was kinda impossible in a sense. But to hear about a hack being successful and being sued because of how stupid hackers were is something to be even more amazed about.
Im more amazed about how stupid this company is than rather what Sony is doing. Its obveious that sony would sue since its an intrentional sabotage of sony production and products. But for a company like this to release a USB unit to intentionaly hack into the PS publicly in this case is just amazing. They should learn from the Asians on how to do this sort of business.
Sony will lose the case unless they can prove that the PSjailbreak contains technology that they own, and it sounds like it doesn't. This is pretty much just a delaying tactic.
It contains code that's gotten signed by Sony software. Software you need a license to use. Simply put, it contains stolen data.
The R4 is still on sale all over the place in Australia, so I can't say Nintendo were very successful there. Maybe you are thinking of a country where modchips are illegal.
No it doesn't. Whatever news source you have is incorrect.
The dongle doesn't do much, other than to simulate multiple devices being plugged and unplugged in the console. It doesn't contain a PS3 executable.
Not only that, Nintendo were successful with stoping retailers from selling the R4 and that didn't contain a single stolen code.
Hope they'll find a counter against Sony... don't see why it souldn't be allowed to load "backup"....(paying 60-80bucks for a game you can finish in 4hours is steal! Example? KaL2...)
Sony is too late. See http://psx-scene.com
I support Yoshi-kun's comment.
This will only give way for other hacks, some illegal. I didn't expect Sony to feel so threatened.
It was allowing ISO's to be run, so it was pretty much already there.
Good. Fucking pirate scum needs no sympathy when all they do is leech & never lift a finger.
Not all pirates are money-oriented...
Some do it for pride and fame...
Some do it for internet notoriety...
Some do it for the hacking challenge...
The rest do it for the horde (i.e. PSX, Dreamcast, MAME, GB emulators)...
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...
...
As long as humans exist, things like these will happen...
So let's just hope for the best and cross our fingers that things will somewhat work out between pirates and corporates...
Pirates and corporates... those are... "buccaneers"!!, secretly acquiring a Jigstick then creating a self made exploit for the ps3 that renders the console into debug mode, then synchronizing oddly with 5-6 sites around the globe to show how the hack was done, and in that way generating enough hype to boost the sales... of their shittyness working piece of pcb AND ps3 consoles.
Yes my friends this is no mere work of pirates is the work of a new breed, BUCCANEERS!!!
(Or so i would like to wish)
Truth is the hardware itself has been already reverse engineered and all that's left is to sniff the code and then port it to w/e they feel doing, hopefully into a PSP, imagine the irony a PSP hacking a PS3, boy that would sure piss off sony.
if you could do that, i would go to sony corporate head quarters, with a projector, and at night, and give a live demonstration.
shit would be the funniest fuck you ever.
Oh? Sony has enough money to throw out the window again?
Hacks are inevitable. Everything can be reverse engineered. Why don't they learn their lesson already and go back to being innovative again?
It's a S*ny!
if they had posted them for free. Nothing like this will happen
How funny.
It's too late already, as everybody KNOWS how these work already.
Really? Sony sue them? I thought they change the PS3 system and tell the Hackers Better luck next time but thanks for trying!
they tried to do that regularly with the psp... but it usually takes only a matter of days before their firmware/hardware updates are bypassed..
I'm surprised they are still trying with the PSP, it's a few years too late
Tell that to my useless 3006 with 6.12 firmware.
http://www.logic-sunrise.com/telechargement-127578-exploit-psp-fw-631.html
sorce?
You should follow the scene more, at end of month a tool to run cfw on 6.21 should be released.