A few documents containing additional details about the settlement agreement forged between Sony and PS3 hacker George "Geohot" Hotz have recently shown up on the web.

An official statement released by Sony Computer Entertainment America yesterday revealed that "as part of the settlement, Hotz consented to a permanent injunction." The permanent injunction apparently involves Hotz being barred from ever tinkering with any Sony product unless Sony explicitly allows him to.

Here are the things Hotz is barred from ever doing as laid down by the settlement agreement:

1. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the law
2. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the terms of any SCEA or SCEA AFFILIATES' license agreement or terms of use applicable to that SONY PRODUCT, whether or not Hotz has accepted such agreement or terms of use, including without limitation:
   1. reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling any portion of the Sony Product
   2. using any tools to bypass, disable, or circumvent any encryption, security, or authentication mechanism in the Sony Product;
   3. using any hardware or softare to cause the Sony Product to accept or use unauthorized, illegal or pirated softare or hardware; and
   4. exploiting any Sony Product to design, develop, update or distribute unauthorized softare or hardware for use with the Sony Product.
   • If any term of such SCEA or SCEA Affilates' license agreement or terms of use applicable to that Sony Product shall be determined by Congress or by a court of law in a final non-appealable decision in an action to which SCEA or an SCEA Affiliate is a party to be illegal and unenforceable, then such term shall not be binding on Hotz.
3. CIRCUMVENTING any of the TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT;
4. TRAFFICKING in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof that, at the time of Hotz's trafficking, circumvents any of the TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT, including but not limited to the Ellptical Curve Signature Algorithm ("ECDSA") Keys, encryption and/or decryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter program, Signing Tools, 3.55 Firmware Jailbreak, and/or any other technologies that enable unauthorized access to and/or copying of the PS3 System and/or enable compatibility of unauthorized copies of other copyrighted works with the PS3 System.
5. Distributing or posting any SCEA or SCEA Affiliates' confidential or proprietary information relating to any SONY PRODUCT;
6. Knowingly assisting or inducing others to engage in any of the conduct set forth in A-E above solely directed at any SONY PRODUCT or that otherwise constitutes contributory liabilty under the law.

You can read the full PDFs of the settlement agreement at the source link below.

Via [PSX-Scene]

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