Sony takes Geohot and Fail0verflow to Court

We knew it would happen. Geohot released on his blog the PS3 “root key” and various tools to run homebrew on the PS3. Geohot posted on his blog the following:

As of 1/11/2011 7:20 PM EST, I have been served with papers, see below…

Motion For TRO
Proposed Order

old front page, with relevant info removed, is here

contact me geohot … gmail

You can download the court papers here (an interesting read):
http://www.multiupload.com/LOR75HTC1U
http://www.multiupload.com/G79F3GL1AA

Fail0verflow is also stuck in the mess, here is some responses from the team:



From Fail0verflow’s Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/fail0…
“Looks like Sony decided to ignore the facts and sue us all for it. See http://geohot.com/”

From Hector Martin’s Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/marca…
“Ah, so Sony decided to sue everyone under US law. Guess I won’t be visiting the US in a while…”

From Muscle Nerd’s Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/Muscl…
“EFF has done a fantastic job keeping iPhone jailbreaks (not piracy!) legal..hope they can do the same with this PS3 news”



List of charges:

Confidential Information On Computer
Intent To Defraud And Obtain Value
Knowing Transmission of Code
Intentional and Reckless Damage And Loss
Trafficking in Password
Intent to Extort


http://geohot.com/