What's more, Sony also won subpoenas to Hotz's PayPal, Twitter, YouTube (.pdf) and other accounts. In three months, Sony had convinced Judge Illston to order Hotz to remove the hack from his website and to fork over his hard drives to Sony for inspection. The deal represents an end to Sony's scorched-earth litigation tactics. We believe this settlement and the permanent injunction achieve this goal." Riley Russell, Sony's general counsel, said in a statement that the console maker brought the litigation "to protect our intellectual property and our consumers. It builds on a series of earlier jailbreaks that unlocked less-protected levels of the PlayStation’s authentication process.
The law does not require Sony to prove that Hotz received payment for the hack, which was designed to allow PlayStation 3 owners the ability to run home-brewed software or alternative operating systems like Linux. The DMCA prohibits the trafficking of so-called “circumvention devices” designed to crack copy-protection schemes. Respected for his iPhone hacks and now the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, Hotz was accused of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws, after he published an encryption key and software tools on his website in January that allow Playstation owners to gain complete control of their consoles from the firmware on up. Sony dropped its jailbreaking lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz on Monday in exchange for promises the New Jersey hacker would never again tinker with the game console or any Sony product, records show.
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