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Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc v. Hotz. SCEA v. Hotz was a lawsuit in the United States by Sony Computer Entertainment of America against George Hotz and associates of the group fail0verflow. It was in regards to jailbreaking and reverse engineering the PlayStation 3 .
Sony agrees to $15M settlement. Way back in 2011, PlayStation Network services and websites went dark due to "an external intrusion." Anonymous claimed responsibility, names, passwords and ...
The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.
George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, [ 1] and software engineer. He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, [ 2][ 3] reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony.
We figured Sony would follow up last night's temporary restraining order against Geohot and fail0verflow for distribution of the PS3 jailbreak with a copyright infringement lawsuit, and well, here ...
Just a little update on the Sony/George Hotz lawsuit.You know, the one where Sony tries to put the cat back in the bag. Well it turns out that their reason for filing suit in California is that ...
Sony forced PS3 owners into a tough decision with the mandatory 3.21 firmware update: either lose online play, or forgo Linux support. On Tuesday, Anthony Ventura chose door number three -- and ...
OtherOS. OtherOS is a feature of early versions of the PlayStation 3 video game console, allowing user installed software, such as Linux or FreeBSD. The feature was removed since system firmware update 3.21, released on April 1, 2010. [1]