VERY EXCITING NEWS, I wanted to add this to my previous thread but I wasn't able to update the threads title so I decided to create a new one.
The news over the Sony lawsuit is picking up heat over the internet the last several hours, and has gotten Professor Dave Touretzky, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University to challenge Sony?s lawsuit and in response has mirrored Geohot?s and fail0verflow?s site ON the university?s servers. The professor is well known for his previous challenges against big corporations (Scientology and DeCSS case). It will be very interesting to see Sony?s reaction to this and how they will proceed.
Our friends at Sony are having another bad day: i.e., doing something breathtakingly stupid, presumably because they don?t know any better. This time they?re suing George Hotz for publishing PS3 jailbreak information, as reported by EnGadget, Attack of the Fan Boy, and inevitably, Slashdot. Hotz?s jailbreak allows PS3 owners to run the software of their choice on a machine they have legally purchased. His site is geohot.com.
Free speech (and free computing) rights exist only for those determined to exercise them. Trying to suppress those rights in the Internet age is like spitting in the wind.
We will help our friends at Sony understand this by mirroring the geohot jailbreak files at Carnegie Mellon.
GeoHot Mirror
Click here for usage instructions.
Note to Sony lawyers: no doubt you?re eager to rack up another billable hour by sending legal threats to me and my university. Before you go down that unhappy road, check out what happened the last time a large corporation tried to stop the mirroring of technical information here: The Gallery of CSS Descramblers. Have you learned anything in ten years
David S. Touretzky
Research Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
What do you guys think of this? Does Sony Lawsuit have a valid fighting ground in court? Could this lawsuit be a total fake?
This lawsuit is all BS. One of the charges is that he accidentally intentionally caused damages...LoL. Another is that he was in possession of, "Confidential Information On Computer"; referring to the confidential information that comes pre-loaded on every PS3 (there would be almost 20 million people guilty of this just for the PS3. They even charged him with password trafficking, in spite of the fact that he was distributing an encryption key, which does not qualify as a password under the law.
More importantly, this one is actually being fought (unlike most of the jailbreaking lawsuits where people didn't even show up to court). Still, this is the US...and judges have been bought before.
the case is bs. not necessarily for the reasons you mentioned, though...
Sony knows it's bs, too. they have to sue because of the game developers, but they don't have to take it seriously. It basically puts up a layer of shielding from them suing sony.
and it is common practice to add in long-shot accusations into the original complaint (for various reasons). nobody expects them to stick.
plus, as was said before, even in the very unlikely event of a negative decision, it wouldn't matter at all. the scene would just go underground, and they will break systems faster just for spite.
