Settlement in George Hotz Case

And the winner is...Lawyers
But it's good they came to an agreement

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Sony Computer Entertainment America (“SCEA”) and George Hotz (“Hotz”) today announced the settlement of the lawsuit filed by SCEA against Hotz in federal court in San Francisco, California. The parties reached an agreement in principle on March 31, 2011. As part of the settlement, Hotz consented to a permanent injunction.

what was the injunction???

i just 'customized' my ps3 a few weeks back! i LOVE it now more than ever.

Originally posted by dantanna
what was the injunction???

i just 'customized' my ps3 a few weeks back! i LOVE it now more than ever.

Most likely he isn't allowed to post anything about jailbreaking a PS3 anymore.

It's sad that Sony basically won.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Somebody else will resume where he left off. It's only a matter of time.

I can't believe this. I mean I can believe it, but it isn't fair at all. If I buy a piece of hardware, I can modify it however the hell I want to! And people say Apple is bad about this stuff. At least they don't go around suing Jailbreakers. Perhaps geohot will refocus some of his efforts back on the iOS community (which I'm all for). Sony is falling behind in many areas, and its crap like this and the Japanese earthquake that will spell the end of them. I can't say I feel bad for them as a corporation, but it sucks for their employees. The fat cats always screw over the little guys with their greed. Greed that consumes and corrupts them.

Originally posted by midwest
I can't believe this. I mean I can believe it, but it isn't fair at all. If I buy a piece of hardware, I can modify it however the hell I want to! And people say Apple is bad about this stuff. At least they don't go around suing Jailbreakers. Perhaps geohot will refocus some of his efforts back on the iOS community (which I'm all for). Sony is falling behind in many areas, and its crap like this and the Japanese earthquake that will spell the end of them. I can't say I feel bad for them as a corporation, but it sucks for their employees. The fat cats always screw over the little guys with their greed. Greed that consumes and corrupts them.

Apple definitely tried. It was decided that it was completely legal for people to jailbreak their iOS devices.

This won't stop anything. Others will continue to do what they can for the PS3. Geohot could even continue with it if he's more secretive about it and only releases things anonymously. Kinda reminds me of the old modding community for the original XBox, you had to know exactly where to go and what to do if you wanted to get any files. Good times.