Sony Computer Entertainment America sued more than 100 alleged...
Sony Computer Entertainment America sued more than 100 alleged hackers in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The company accused George Hotz of Cambridge, Mass., widely known as “geohot,” and other defendants with violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and…
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other laws in circumventing the PS3’s security system and distributing circumvention devices. Sony’s complaint seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions to bar further violations and to require the defendants to deliver to the company all materials that enabled circumvention of the PS3’s security system. The company also wants the defendants to be required to pay it any profits from their violations, plus unspecified damages and Sony’s legal fees. Also named as defendants were Hector Cantero of Spain and Sven Peter of Hungary. Sony also identified defendant “Doe 1” as a San Francisco resident known online as “Bushing” and defendant “Doe 2” as a Netherlands resident known online as “Segher.” The company said a few of the defendants were members of failOverflow, a group that had figured out how to bypass the PS3’s security system. The group had claimed its goal was to enable PS3s to run Linux again, after it was removed from consoles with a recent Sony software update. The same hack, however, apparently also allows PS3s to play pirated games.