At least 23,000 file sharers soon will likely get notified they are being sued for downloading the Expendables ...

Due to the PlayStation Network's recent security failure, it was only a matter of time before legal action came against Sony. Kristopher Johns, a local California man, strikes first in the legal arena by filing a class action lawsuit against the electronics conglomerate. The man appears to be taking Sony's breach of security extremely serious and is coming at them with a team of six lawyers from two separate law firms.
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Sony has finally revealed the extent of the recent "external intrusion" to the PlayStation Network and it is bound to upset countless users. Millions of users's names, addresses, billing information, credit card details and more were all exposed to hackers in this wide scale hack. As everyone knows by now, Sony responded to hacks by shutting down the PSN completely. Unfortunately, its come out that the hacks took place three days before the networks were shut down. Sony has also hired an external security firm to investigate the incident.
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Long time PS3 Dev SKFU posted a link on IRC and his twitter, to quite an interesting article, discussing ...

Los Angeles – The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on behalf of several of its member studios today filed a lawsuit against the operators of the download hub service Hotfile (www.hotfile.com) for copyright infringement. Hotfile facilitates the theft of copyrighted motion picture and television properties on a staggering scale and profits handsomely from encouraging and providing the means for massive copyright infringement.
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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
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