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Sony looking for more legal help |
Listed in: PSP, PS3 Tags: SCEA, Sony
Custom firmware and backup loaders are things that used to be confined to the handheld space of Sony's current generation of video game consoles. Now that they've finally crossed over to the PS3, Sony is scrambling to clamp down on the piracy and modding that are creeping into their big black home video game console by seeking to bolster the ranks of their legal team.
Now, a giant corporation like Sony is bound to have an equally big team of lawyers at their command. The rise in piracy seems to have convinced Sony that they need to bolster their legal team even further, though, as evidenced by a couple of new job openings spotted by video game news site IGN.
The listings are calling for a Senior Corporate Counsel and a Senior Paralegal, both of which are for Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection. Repsonsibilities of both include working together to handle "the day-to-day work of implementing SCEA's anti-piracy program". This also includes collaborating with anti-piracy organizations such as the Entertainment Software Association and Sony's other affiliated divisions.
The Senior Corporate Counsel, in particular, is being tasked with the development of "a written plan and budget for corporate anti-piracy program" and "overseeing anti-piracy civil lawsuits and providing support to law enforcement and intellectual property agencies on behalf of SCEA".
Just recently, Sony sent an announcement that urged PS3 owners to remove unauthorized or pirated content from their PS3s or else face being banned from access to the PlayStation Network. A couple of days after the announcement went out, reports of users getting banned from PSN started showing up on the internet.
Apart from the user bans, Sony has also taken action against those it deemed reponsible for the proliferation of what it calls "unauthorized circumvention devices" that allow PS3 owners to load and play pirated software on their consoles. Famous names in the hacking scene like Geohot are foremost in Sony's hit list, which already includes over a hundred different individuals.
Via [IGN]
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Behind closed doors:
Exec #1:Damn, our lawyers suck. They can't even beat a 19 year-old kid and now he's raised money that people should be giving us.
Exec #2:Ehh... We got plenty of money already from all our loyal suckers(consume rs). Let's just hire some new ones as well. That will show him.
Exec #1:Sounds good, I'll call HR.
Exec #3:It looks like our lawyers did manage to get most of the OtherOS lawsuit thrown out, but they contradicted the other lawyers in the George Hotz case.
Exec #2: What they did it again? Damn our lawyers suck... first Bleem! and now this. (Looks at Exec #1)
Exec #1: I'm calling! I'm calling!
Exec #2: Better make it 2 lawyers just to be safe.
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They took illegally OtherOS, and are spying with the rootkit on 3.56 fw yet it's illegal for a user to use jailbreak? Wow Sony, you're such a hypocrite.
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Pretty much, Tenchi.
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Hackers were happy enough with OtherOS, but things changed after Sony removed.
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OtherOS is exactly why i bought the damn thing when it first came out, so ima use it for what i got it for (SCHOOL WORK)
i dont hack or exploit or anything of that nature
the reason otheros is on the ps3 is because when it first came out , sony promised it can be used as a computer.,thus reason i bought it (for gaming AND computing)
they should of made it clearly known when ps3 was released that they WERE going to take away otheros AND computer options later in the lifespan
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To have a Hitler v2 (Sony) I'd rather have the original Hitler taken over the world instead.
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Off-topic: I've never seen 1 page article for awhile.
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http://www.ps3hax.net/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=20222
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Sony = Nazis from 2011
Even though they can't win this battle they think they can, yet they have the power to.
Using money and bribing people it's easily influenced.
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On topic of subject though, Sony can't have it all. They will wind up spending more money in the long run if they pursue these people pirating. Also the tax payers will have to pay to punish all these people. Thanks for taking even more of my money Sony!
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Banning is one thing, but suing everyone even remotely connected with the ps3 scene.. The whole situation is getting too far.
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Sony is saying "its only one way to cheat that's what we allow, and it is us![Sony] not you consumers."
Like, Geohot, all hackers will be hunted from this evil corporations because this people are opening up technologies on what Sony is selling and makes it limited for the consumer to use, they even monitor our locations and what we do and think.
Freedom is no more.
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Like a home computer, it's possible to do whatever the user wants.
Microsoft offers support for the hackers to develop software for Kinect, but Sony's being a dickhead.
My wish for 2011: Sony go bankrupt!
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