Anything you do against a large corporation that they view is in violation of their sense of power leaves you defenseless against their legal representation and ability to hire much better lawyers than you.
Exhibit A
George Francis Hotz, alias geohot, million75 or simply mil is credited with famous hacks such as the iPhone unlocking and jailbreaker allowing iPhones to be used at other carriers than at&t and other features Apple did not believe the consumer deserved. The creator of blackra1n in this past year was involved in yet another high profile case
"Hacking the PlayStation 3"
owards the end of 2009, Hotz announced his efforts to hack the Sony PlayStation 3,[15] a console widely regarded as being the only fully locked and secure system of the seventh generation era. Hotz opened a blog to document his progress, and five weeks later, on January 22, 2010, he announced that he had successfully hacked the machine by enabling himself read and write access to the machine's system memory and having hypervisor level access to the machine's processor.[16][17] Hotz detailed functions that his work could allow, such as homebrew and PlayStation 2 emulation (a feature removed by Sony in newer revisions of the console to tackle production costs).-Wikipedia
Sony Retaliates
Sony lawsuit-Wikipedia
Main article: Sony Computer Entertainment America v. George Hotz
The Sony PS3 console was hacked, or more appropriately "jailbroken", by iPhone hacker, Geohot. He managed to reverse engineer his own PlayStation 3 to run homebrew applications on it. He then later released the method to the public through his site, geohot.com. Sony responded with a lawsuit and demanded social media sites, including YouTube,[citation needed] to hand over IP addresses of people who visited Geohot's social pages and videos.
PayPal has granted Sony access to Geohot's PayPal account,[citation needed] and the judge of the case granted Sony permission to view the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com. Sony is also after another group of hackers for the same case. In April 2011, it was revealed that Sony and Hotz had settled the lawsuit out of court, on the condition that Hotz would never again resume any hacking work on Sony products.[29]
At the end of April 2011 hackers broke into the PlayStation Network and stole personal information of some 77 million users. Hotz denied any responsibility for the attack, and said "Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone else's server and stealing databases of user info is not cool".[30]
I feel a sense of justice has been served. Maybe Sony needs to come up with a better policy on how to treat people. The irony of it all is that I don't own any Sony products...so ignore me if you like.
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