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News: Sony is hard at work to find you
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biglo30
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28. September 2010 @ 15:41 |
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Some interesting news I saw yesterday, thought I would share it, seems like Sony is really working hard to stop the jailbreaking and even trying to shutdown websites.
garyopa over at PSX-Scene has posted an interesting article today, releasing many possible recent court documents.
To quote:
In this boring legal filings by Sony, it now covers not just PSJailbreak, but also names PSGroove, PSFreedom, OpenPSJailbreak, and they have filed printouts from various blogs, forums, with comments and tutorials people have been writing up on how to use these various programs. They even mention of course the phone ports & TI84 calc. hacks.
Sony is using this information, to get the courts to order up faster service, to force the various ISP?, Domain Register?s, and Web Hosting Services to give up the personal info on their clients so that can serve more court papers on those people, and issue DMCA takedown notices to shut down various sites.
So for the Judge has only granted one order so far, this one is directed to YAHOO! to within 5 business days to turn over all the information they have on a ?vladgazoune@yahoo.com?, all IP?s he used to access his mail, his personal info stored by Yahoo, his email of course, and other logs.
This E-Mail address is the one that was used to rent the mail-drop box in Texas used by http://shoppsjailbreak.com as their virtual office for orders, shipments, registering the domain name, etc.
Recently, that above name site which also goes under the company name of Zoomba stop using the ?.com? domain and now is operating under a http://shoppsjailbreak.net domain. ? Plus also the http://psjailbreakcanada.com site which seems to point IP wise to the older site, has suddenly been changed to DOJ/IPR/ICE notice that has been used in the past for ?Torrent/Movie? site take-downs!
Anyhow, here is all the public court documents you can read thru them now, and see just what SCEA has been printing out about yourself online, they are asking the court they need to findout the true identify of everyone that sells, makes, offers for sale, or even has just knowledge of the real people behind any project called PSJailbreak, PSGroove, OpenPSJailbreak, PSFreedom.
Don?t be surprized if the next few days, you see less sites online, or you find yourself answering the door to a person serving you a Summons to Appear! ? The good reading stuff is the PDF?s called Exhibit or Exhibits!
You can see all the documents at the source below:
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Source: PS3hax
Should we be afraid?
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 28. September 2010 @ 15:42
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CrisKahn2
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29. September 2010 @ 01:24 |
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No...I dont think Its illegal to sell usb sticks that jailbreaks PS3s. If so then how come modchips, usb advance, and swap magic discs for the PS2 and other systems not illegal? I call bluff on this.
Unless the jailbreak itself is a code that Sony created and owns. Then yes selling it would be illegal. I dont know how this whole jailbreaking works I just know it tricks the PS3 into thinking its a dev console.
But then again they are not going to track down every single person that bought the item or jailbroke their PS3 and send them court orders. Thats just a little bit too extreme. Especially when theres thousands (probably more) of ppl who has already jailbroke their PS3s.
PS3...it only does everything(that Sony allows it to)
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 29. September 2010 @ 01:25
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29. September 2010 @ 03:37 |
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"how come modchips, usb advance, and swap magic discs for the PS2 and other systems not illegal?"
They are...it may not be very well enforced on the latter two items, but modchips are certainly illegal, or at least treated as such.
The thing is tho, devices like the "PS Break" will not be around very long. Ignoring the fact that they are just $5 dev keys with a nice plastic cover that sell for $50, they are preloaded with software...and that will be their downfall...it is already illegal to ship them into or out of several countries (including china...a country where every government computer has a pirated OS). They really can't ban something like the Teensy or the Arduino, because they are just mini computers that can be used for almost anything...it would be like banning the sale of rubber gloves because a robber uses them to prevent leaving fingerprints.
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tomatoegg
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29. September 2010 @ 07:00 |
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There is also a theory supporting that SONY will increase income with backing up available.
This theory is not so extreme since PS3 will be replaced in the near future (3-4 years max). People who are able to buy originals have already bought their console. Jailbreaking will open the market for SONY since people who would never buy ps3's without copies being available, now they are going to buy one. As a result --->>> sony makes money.
Sony will increase sales without losing money from software since original games fans (I refer to the pre jailbreak era buyers) will keep buying original games.
Keep in mind that backups is the reason xbox360 is selling more than ps3. If this theory is true, I think all the next firmwares will be jailbroken.
What is your opinion?
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CrisKahn2
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30. September 2010 @ 01:43 |
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I wouldnt go as far as saying that backups is the reason the 360 has sold more units. I think its because it was release before the PS3, cheaper, and XBL but thats a whole different discussion.
What sucks about piracy is the toll it takes on game developers. They dont make any money off their hard work so why would they continue? Its the reason the PSP has barely any new games. I would hate to see it happen to a console. The Wii is starting to get to that point.
I could care less if Sony makes money or not. I do care though about developers. The more support they have the better games they make and thats a win for everyone. Im not against the jailbreak I love it. To me its just another way to add more features to the PS3. Having a system that can play any video files, play old emulators, ability to choose different OS, and all other homebrews by far out weights the ability to play backups. Thats just my opinion.
But my point is that the PS3's get bought because of its features, exclusive games, and fans. PS3 being jailbroken and being able to play backups will not increase its sales by much if at all.
PS3...it only does everything(that Sony allows it to)
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biglo30
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30. September 2010 @ 03:59 |
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Originally posted by CrisKahn2:
I wouldnt go as far as saying that backups is the reason the 360 has sold more units. I think its because it was release before the PS3, cheaper, and XBL but thats a whole different discussion.
What sucks about piracy is the toll it takes on game developers. They dont make any money off their hard work so why would they continue? Its the reason the PSP has barely any new games. I would hate to see it happen to a console. The Wii is starting to get to that point.
I could care less if Sony makes money or not. I do care though about developers. The more support they have the better games they make and thats a win for everyone. Im not against the jailbreak I love it. To me its just another way to add more features to the PS3. Having a system that can play any video files, play old emulators, ability to choose different OS, and all other homebrews by far out weights the ability to play backups. Thats just my opinion.
But my point is that the PS3's get bought because of its features, exclusive games, and fans. PS3 being jailbroken and being able to play backups will not increase its sales by much if at all.
Yeah I kinda do feel bad for the developers but sometimes I just think about a handful of games that have been release and it seem that really focus toooo much on the cinematics instead of the actual gameplay. You get it and its done in 12 hours and not else to do. Prime example of this is mafia 2.
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30. September 2010 @ 05:56 |
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Its too late, the Genie is out of the bottle!
White SW PSP 2001> Silver PSP 2001 > Silver PSP 3000 >Installed CFW > CFW 5.00 M33 >(:>) Im not as think as you dumb I am.
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