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GeoHot flees to South America, PSN account proved |
Listed in: News, Games Tags: george hotz, SCEA
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| 1. GeoHot flees to South America, PSN account proved |
| 2. PSN account proved |
| 3. Even without PSN proof |
GeoHot's sudden trip to South America was discovered when SCEA made a recent filing to court, stating that it was done in an attempt to curtail the court's orders to surrender his hard drives for inspection."Though the evidence establishing personal jurisdiction is already overwhelming, SCEA has little doubt that there ismuch more.
However, over the last several weeks, Hotz has engaged in a campaign to thwart jurisdictional discovery at every turn - regardless of whether the court has ordered such discovery or not.
Most seriously, after Magistrate Judge Spero ordered an inspection of Hotz's devices and ordered Hotz to appear at a deposition in California, SCEA learned that Hotz had deliberately removed integral components of his impounded hard drives prior to delivering them to a third party neutral and that Hotz is now in South America, an excuse for why he will not immediately provide the components of his hard drives as requested by the neutral. Hotz's attempts to dodge this Court's authority raise very serious questions."
And indeed, it does look like he's managed to sink himself lower in this pit. It was hard to imagine how it could've been possible, but there you go.
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Haha funny thing is,guy was talking so much shit like he would win the case...haha
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Get over it Sony, just release a god damn banhammer and quit these childish actions.
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And let's face it, this guy broke the law. Any other criminal would be put behind bars and/or be fined. Why is he so different. I agree, it's your console, do what you want with it, but in order to USE THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED, you must agree to Sony's terms. Thus, the hardware is yours, but they're letting you use the software.
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he hacked the ps3. he did not recreate a means to play backups and he forced no-one to pirate
Sony should sue themselves by your logic, because sony made the ps3 which allowed piracy
still dont like the guy. But i see no crime. Plus this means feck all. It doesnt make him guilty of anything just helps establish jurisdiction, which i believe is wrong to do so.
dont like the guy though, to cocky for my liking
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GeoHot is not a pirate or cheater, he just a hacker. The main purpose he creates hack is for homebrew. My PS3 is hacked, and I don't have no pirate games--I don't even back up the games I own. The reasons I love hacking and custom firmware is because of the homebrew. so just stfu ya faggot
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period.
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Granted some will anyway and parents aren't the full crux of the blame, but capitalism that promotes taking any advantage at any cost if the outcome is favorable to you is also to blame for both sides of this problem from the companies and the pirates/cheaters. Until we as humanity can move toward a society where hard work and talent are rewarded above crime (see Berney Madoff like mispelled that name) these problems will continue. Hackers (not theives) but as a whole only seek and wish to proliferate knowledge. It's why I personally got into homebrew.
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just because 99% of people never read them doesn't mean that they don't hold up in court when you break them and get caught.
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o no wait. Thats not allowed in law
TOS < Law
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what is TOS?
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TOS = Terms of Service.
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The question is about "reasonable" which is what the CAS about OtherOS is going to determine where Sony's ToS is concerned.
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i guess every person should just flee the country then when they break the law. god forbid you take the fall for your actions if they were illegal.
SeanO - is that an alias for Roman Polanski?
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take the fall for your actions if they are immoral
the law however tries to prevent people from making immoral choices before they actually do any harm. And that aint right. It has to work that way, but fair play to anyone who gets away with it
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fuck yea.
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Guess he wont rap his way outta this, hah!
He should've made cfw right from the start, maybe that was wordt it. Now others took his fame, and hes goin to jail.
Hah, what a scam.
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1 pirate down, 10000000000000 left to go. If you use CFW then your a hypocrite.
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Dude, hook and sinker for you....13 years old and a big mouth, but no knowledge. Likely you are a 'pirate' for using copied games from friends (perhaps just not on the PS3, as you were too afraid to). You clearly don't know what CFW is or what it is meant for and you for sure don't have a clue on what a hacker, cracker, pirate or noob is. You are clearly the latter.
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Quoting RetroGamerX3:
weird stuff with the replies, I reply to Jelster, it gets added to Retro....hmmm...sorry Retro.
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last time i checked the guy was pretty loaded by all his wee apple fans
no need to steal when he could just buy
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you can still go to jail and be a "criminal" when found guilty in a civil case.
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were just better than you.
just because someone else pays a different price, why do you see them as an evil ?
walk round the corner to a different store and thell be a cheaper price.
some people are smart enough to know the rite people who know the rite people , to get a free copy or a cheaper thing or whatever.
piracy is wrong. true enough.
but opening up my computer or computer entertainment system is my fucking right.
and if i say, dont want to use the dumb bullshit that comes on it, it gets un installed and replaced, game, laptop ,or otherwise.
for fuck sake even my router has a cfw.
if my ps3 has software that basically tells me the owner to bend over and suck its balls , that pos is getting formatted and replaced
just because some company wants to keep all of their ads or all of their approved software or all of the content that THEY decide is good for you, on "THEIR" system
fuck that.
the ps3 is a computer.
plain and simple. it CAN play games
big whup.
it CAN play movies, whoptey fucking do.
do you want your laptop telling you what you can and can not do with it ?
if your laptop just up and decided to say,
"WELL, FUCK YOU, its been decided that qj.net myspace facebook and google are loosing sony money so you cant ever go there on this system again,
and if you8 dont like it ill delete your loggin., and if you do bypass this update because you dont agree we will take your house and toss you in jail.
what the fuck would you do ?
personally id tear out the fucking modem bust out a soldering gun and go to fucking town.
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why cant i emulate my own things anymore ?
why is it ok to do it on my computer,
but not my computer entertainment system ?
when all my shit was stolen, my legal rites to have copies of my things were not stolen, just the physical copies and the hardware to use them.
so yes, IF my ps3 that i paid 700 bucks for, "more then my laptop, none the less"
was working, (fourth time a ps3 has fried on me 3rd time ive had to fix one)
id flash the firmware and never log in online again.
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Also to David G., you are wrong about the prices going up due to hackers. Prices been increasing for years on videogames. However, Sony does give people the option to either update or lose access to online goodies (multiplayer, PSN, etc..). PC games are the most pirated and the prices rarely change for it.
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But Sony is only going after him to make him an example. They want to scare the ever living hacking shit out of us for a LONG long time, and they certainly succeeded in scaring GeoHot. Geo Hotz was not only hacking their systems but also their phones, unlike the group of guys that more recently appeared in the hacking scene, Geo Hotz is much more well known and makes a better target to make an example out of.
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and that makes it ok to just fuck over someones entire life ?
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That is the only thing I can say :3
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When you messup with Sony, there is a possibility to get trough this... but when you messup with justice... oh oh, prepare yourself Hotz, because federal police will check you!
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The US is fast becoming a third world country, but not because of copyright infringement. It's because corporations buy laws to protect their profits. So many corporations are doing this, one could say they are the new government.
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and thats the scary fuckin truth man.
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Hotz is currently on vacation in a South American country. As common sense would dictate, there is no reason to "flee" from a civil case. These sites have based their claims on misinterpretati ons of the court documents and an image posted on Geohot's blog. In a lame attempt to direct traffic to their pathetic websites, some sources are now reporting that Geohot has "fled" the country after court documents reveal a PSN account alleged to belong to him. Normally, we would not report on something so completely ridiculous but, unfortunately, this nonsense is starting to spread to mainstream websites.
Hotz is currently on vacation in a South American country. As common sense would dictate, there is no reason to "flee" from a civil case. These sites have based their claims on misinterpretati ons of the court documents and an image posted on Geohot's blog.
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cant copy what you cant see,
i totally agree,
just like for so long the xbox was not readable in anything but an xbox,
then the kreon drive then >>> today..
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apprently the reaason why he is on south africa is because he is on vacation lol
anyhow i think this should be corrected
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getting the media to give a retraction is pointless
thell spend all the headlines and countless hours calling you out,
but when they say sorry itl be at midnight for about 2 minutes and thats the last anyone will hear.
oh my bad we slandered your name and got everyone in the world to thing you were a murderer, whoopsey ?
then some ass that thinks your the prick will firebomb your house thinking hes cleaning up the streets of some scum
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South America.
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Besides the first guy I responded to said they had only found a system that was located in New Jersey which is WRONG they found his system registered is what I said. Not once did I say he registered it anyways.
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vacation = -stress
court+vaction = 0
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The Badest thing a corp. can have is a unsatisfied angry custumer and Hotz is one of them even more if they have hacking skills, he was one of more hackers that hack your poorly secured console! huh? how old are Hotz? It's just the BeginninG...
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Poorly secured?! How is the console poorly secured and it took 4.5 years to hack?! Please as much as I have respect for Hotz, he did break the law and now has to deal with the consequences. Simple as that.
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Quoting Coco Davis:
but the "law" that says i cant change programs on my system is stupid
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But at the very least, if he wasn't really fleeing, his timing was impeccable...
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All this whining on here about Crime. Get a f*cking clue you commercial sheep. USA is a patent, legal nightmare 90% of wealth owned by 1% of population. Don't you get it? Food water and shelter is important, not being able to copy a game. You would remove someones freedom because they pirate a game? (gave ability to pirate) He didnt steal bread from starving people you total idiots. Id like to see you all fight through a few wars and then prattle on about copywrite. FUCK your copywrite, it stems from complacency and shallow egotism. It is despotic and I despise the arrogance of some of the users on here spouting their totalitarian views. Just because you are all too busy having too many kids and dont bother teaching them anything, passing your children to schools to teach them in mass market non progressive ways, deciding that information can be illegal to transmit or send or copy!?!?!
Aliens are laughing at us, no wonder we still fly solo.
Does anyone really get ART>? The vid games we pirate are as much artist inspired as they are consumer inspired, made by big patent copywrite holding companies to provide users with what the copywrite holders think they want.
If I made the best game ever, I would want everyone to be able to play for free, here humanity, here is my effort. Enjoy and share now kids.
Don't get greedy and tell the others they cannot play with your toys. Oh, you put them in jail cos they wanted to read your code.
I wish jesus or buddah, godzilla, Muhammed or someone/thing would come down here and give us a direction. We are really going no where. What happens if Sony found an electronic cure for cancer and geohotz unlocked it so everyone could copy it and not have to pay? Would that make a difference to you whining money oriented fleebags? Or would you still put him in jail so Sony could make their millions/billions!
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ure cool
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Yarod_g142 that dude
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Hot was merely a catalyst in the PS3 hacking scene which allowed people to do whatever the hell they want with their consoles by pushing it to the limits.
But (I know you hate this word) the ever-feared effects of pirates on the game industry caused, or rather forced, Sony to sue him for starting this all.
The thing is, shouldn't Sony be spending their money on hunting down pirates than wasting their dollars to bring Hot down? Which doesn't make much difference as his "hacking legacy" would still be continued by others.
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Second 'OMG i'm gonna flee the country cause they're gonna take my PS3 away!?'
No reason even he said it.
And another thing this is just Sony's sad attempt to control the stuff they put out.
Anyone here remember the Rootkit fiasco a long while back?
A sad and desperate attempt to control their media which in turn backfired on them badly.
To me a system I paid 600 dollars for and I can't mod it or hell even put linux on it, I got a 80 dollar PC that I can do all of that with and Sony has the nerve to say 'no you can't do anything to it but admire it's beauty?'
They can take away features from the system at the drop of a hat anytime they wish and that's ok? Features they promised you the consumer were going to be standard on the conole.
Heck what if PC's did the same, what if Microsoft did that to everyone here? Windows 7 did have this but were taking it away just because.
It's just sad to see that Sony will sue you if their product is not operating the way THEY want it to.... and you remember piracy or not you paid 600 dollars and your renting from Sony... you don't own it.
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you are sony, go out and buy a soul.
equip said item and quit being assholes.
the ps3 is a great computer.
let us use it as one.
release a firmware update that gives us manual control over fanspeeds,
ive put 19v5amp through that cecha-01 fan
there is no reason in FUCK that a ps3 should ever overheat unless you just want to sell more slim consoles...
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