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Sony: Geohot fled to South America
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article published on 23 March, 2011
According to VGHQ, George 'Geohot' Hotz has fled to South America in an effort to avoid handing over his possessions to Sony.
Furthermore, Sony has caught Geohot lying on record, outing his PSN account which he claimed did not exist.
Sony's official document in the case, Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC v. Hotz reads:
Though the evidence establishing personal jurisdiction ... [ read the full article ]
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lissenup3
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23. March 2011 @ 14:50 |
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WOW! People killing others, burglarizing others, raping others, stealing other's identity, political corruption on a MASSIVE scale that has caused financial downfalls and poverty............and Sony can't stop wasting their F'ing time on someone that showed others how to manipulate a product they rightfully purchased.
How is this essentially any different from buying a PC with an OS and software already loaded on it to run something else that may or may not run pirated software in addition to running homemade applications????
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23. March 2011 @ 15:08 |
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Get over it Sony. You can't stop hackers their just smarter than you.
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23. March 2011 @ 15:09 |
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What if his buddy created the account without GH's knowledge?
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CF01
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23. March 2011 @ 15:21 |
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i was thinking that or a little brother or sibling
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23. March 2011 @ 15:45 |
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Dear Sony: Just lick your wounds and move on !
Attn. Mrguss
Hotz says: he's just enjoying spring break.
"Actually, it's true I'm in South America, on a vacation I've had planned and paid for since November. I mean, it is spring break; hacking isn't my life," he writes.
http://cnet.co/gyTOrV
"The donation money George (GoeHot) has received is being used exclusively for his legal defense. If there are any funds left after the lawsuit, George is planning to donate the money to the EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation]."
http://go.ign.com/gRL8SS
Sony said: +13,300 unique internet addresses had downloaded the tools from Hotz?s web site in California alone.
http://goo.gl/fb/TmuHs
Live Free or Die.
The rule above all the rules is: Survive !
Capitalism: Funnel most of the $$$ to the already rich.
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flyingpen
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23. March 2011 @ 15:48 |
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...How can they PROOVE that the user was him that created the PSN account? And not a friend over at his house, etc?
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23. March 2011 @ 16:55 |
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Freedom has gone down the drain. The court has already given Sony the "right" to acquire IP addresses. They've obviously been following this guy's every move. I hope this guy wins the case (if it is still going on), somewhere down the line Sony invaded his privacy, hope he finds that evidence and uses it against them, but it's hard when it's deemed legal by the court for one company to acquire your IP address, but you can't acquire theirs. Sony is just in this for the money (obviously). It's BS that a multi-billion dollar corporation will try to milk every penny out of a low-income citizen. I highly doubt this guy has hundreds of thousands of dollars lying around; even then that's just peanuts to Sony.
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ddp
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23. March 2011 @ 17:18 |
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lissenup3, are you going to be a good boy or do i have to keep banning you?
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23. March 2011 @ 17:42 |
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I'm all for personal freedom. I jailbrake phones and hacked my wii, but I also understand that both open me to being sued. It's just the risk you take when you do such a thing. But to go public with it is completly different matter. It reminds me of the LA riots in the 90's ie all the people doing interviews with the evidence in their hands.
To hack your own console is one thing, to show others how is something else entirely. Wether or not you do it for financial gain is irrelevent. And to think that someone coming after you for sercumventing the security they put in place to keep you from pirating games is a bad thing to do is just completly ludricris.
If I broke into your house and stole your TV, and then told the world how to get in to your house so they could steal some stuff. Then you'd be pretty mad.
Get real people Sony is a buisness and has share holders to protect and yes make richer. It sucks but its the truth.
Let the flaming begin...
?Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this... and attaining enlightenment is the least of your problems.?
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ddp
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23. March 2011 @ 17:51 |
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no flaming or will be banned so your choice.
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23. March 2011 @ 17:54 |
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And the whole "Not to my knowlage"... I used that excuse to, when I had stuff in my car and didn't want to go to jail. Fact of the matter is "If you own it your responsible for it.? Again it sucks but it's the truth. Doesn't matter who created the account... his mom, borther, sister, red headed step-child; he's responsible for what is on and what gets done with his PS3....
?Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this... and attaining enlightenment is the least of your problems.?
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23. March 2011 @ 18:04 |
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I think its called a vacation...
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23. March 2011 @ 18:10 |
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Originally posted by lissenup3:
.........and Sony can't stop wasting their F'ing time on someone that showed others how to manipulate a product they rightfully purchased.
They may own the systen ie the hardware, but the software is still own by Sony. And wether or not you acctually did read the EULA is not Sony's problem it's YOURs especially if you decide to monkey with the software. And then to tell the whole world "Look what I did, I'm so smart." This dude (GEOHOT) has got to be one of the dumbest smart people I have ever heard of.
?Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this... and attaining enlightenment is the least of your problems.?
?Zen Judaism by Someone Clever
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Mysttic
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23. March 2011 @ 18:56 |
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The title of this articles comes close to defamation of character, it's already shown on IGN that Hotz Lawyers clarified he's only on vacation out there, and that he handed over all specified hardware asked in the court order. To say that Geohot "FLED" is entirely out of context and just plain wrong. At-least put rumored in the title...
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emugamer
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23. March 2011 @ 19:34 |
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Regardless of why he is in South America, going there only hurts his image. Don't cry broke to the community and then travel internationally for a vacation. Maybe he got a free ticket, maybe he's visiting family...who knows? Either way, he's involved in one of the biggest IP cases to date. He made his bed, now he should sleep in it. Even if it means staying holed up in Jersey until this all blows over.
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23. March 2011 @ 21:11 |
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He'll probably gonna ask for more donation for his court cases and then take another "vacation" somewhere in Asia next time.
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xblade132
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23. March 2011 @ 22:27 |
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i hope he gets what he deserves and rots for being stupid,
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23. March 2011 @ 22:59 |
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Don't forget, the outcome of the case is about a lot more than one hacker. A lot of people don't like george for various reasons, but remember...this case is about your rights...if he wanted out, all he would have to do is to agree to stop distributing hacks for the PS3, and the case would disappear (other than any charges relating to lies under oath).
...And I am sure that he cleaned his drives. Sony didn't get a restraining order preventing him from doing so until days after the case started...he had enough time to scrub his physical media and online accounts, and he wasn't even breaking a court order or anything. I'm sure that he deleted, zero-filled, random-filled, and then overwrote anything incriminating long before any judge said that he could not.
As for the vacation, it seems like a bad choice unless it is family related or if it was free or something...if he wanted to go on vacation, he could have gone to the venue of the trial.
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5fdpfan
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23. March 2011 @ 23:11 |
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Alright, I can understand and agree with the point some of you are making that this guy's stupitidy got him in the mess he's in, but to the extent that you would relish in him going to prison for it is baffling to me. Why so mean? The smart thing for him certainly would have been for him to have kept this information to himself but he didn't. He thought others would like to know what he knows so he shared it. Would you rather he and all other hackers keep their tricks to themselves? To just read stories on here about all these cool things they're doing but none offering any way for you to read up on how to attempt it yourself? I can safely say you would not. So enough already with you bloodthirsty people counting the seconds until he's brought back here to "face the music." Cause if it weren't for him and others willing to in some cases sacrifice their freedoms in order to share their expertise with everyone, the use of all those smartphones game consoles wouldn't be nearly as much fun to use. If he eventually gets punished for his actions then so be it. Sony will be the only one's that benefit though. The rest of us lose as far as I'm concerned. I will fail to see anything to cheer and clap about.
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5fdpfan
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23. March 2011 @ 23:24 |
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and yeah before it's mentioned, I'm aware of that glaring misspelling on there. No good excuse for that. The point made in the message still rings true I belive.
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24. March 2011 @ 01:39 |
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His picture looks like an SNL skit.
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joseve
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24. March 2011 @ 09:31 |
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Originally posted by cdxanti:
Get over it Sony. You can't stop hackers their just smarter than you.
if hackers were smarter, they'd know proper grammar.. its not "their", its, "theyre".
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samttu
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24. March 2011 @ 10:45 |
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Originally posted by joseve:
Originally posted by cdxanti:
Get over it Sony. You can't stop hackers their just smarter than you.
if hackers were smarter, they'd know proper grammar.. its not "their", its, "theyre".
And if random people on news sites actually had meaningful things to say once in a while these comments sections might one day amount to more than massive waste of time.
(OP was clearly not talking about himself, and it's not "theyre" either.)
As for George, public recognition is rarely a good thing, it just made him a target for leechers, media, Sony, forum pos(t)ers..
Other than that he was a useful guy. Having the knowledge and using it productively (yes providing hacks is producing) is very rare in comparison to the millions of dumbshits who think they're entitled to everything.
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jrp696
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24. March 2011 @ 11:22 |
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Can someone update the article? He's in vacation. It was stated by his lawyer and by himself. I believe he's in Argentina (he's wearing a boca juniors jersey). But someone should update this with more accurate information, check psx-scene.
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bryguy12
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24. March 2011 @ 12:16 |
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Originally posted by joseve:
Originally posted by cdxanti:
Get over it Sony. You can't stop hackers their just smarter than you.
if hackers were smarter, they'd know proper grammar.. its not "their", its, "theyre".
and your correction uses its instead of it's (the contraction for It Is) ... who watches the watchers?
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