Settlement in George Hotz Case

From geohot's website:<p>&#62; What if SCEA tries to settle?<p>&#62; Lets just say, I want the settlement terms to include OtherOS on all PS3s and an apology on the PlayStation blog for ever removing it. It'd be good PR for Sony too, lord knows they could use it. I'm also willing to accept a trade, a legit path to homebrew for knowledge of how to stop new firmwares from being decrypted.<p>I wonder if any of those terms were met?

The comments on this blog entry scare me. Fanboyism and groupthink pushed to the limit.<p>EDIT: ah well, I see that this opinion is shared. It kind of cheers me up. Kind of.

What can't believe are the comments on that page. Are people really that eager to praise their "overlords" in the name of "better gaming"? But can there really be that many trolls?<p>The scary part is that these are most likely real people, who like their control and surveillance just fine, and are the majority. Which means we will probably see a completely locked down internet sooner or later.

George Hotz is not telling much either for the moment <a href="http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/04/joining-sony-boycott.html" rel="nofollow">http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/04/joining-sony-boyco...</a>

<i>sigh</i> "Hey George. We're your new corporate overlords, telling you to keep quiet about PS3_CONSTANT_ENCRYPTION_KEY." "Ok, can we talk?"<p>"We'll see you in court." "Shit."<p>Time passes...<p>"Hey Sony, here's a ton of money, leave me alone." "Ok."<p>I cannot express how disappointed I am in this result.

"<i>Sony is glad to put this litigation behind us,” said Riley Russell, General Counsel for SCEA.</i>"<p>likely because they realized they were being dipshits half way through. glad this case is over and i can't believe it wasted so much time. my respect and empathy goes to hotz; i'm sure his past few months were miserable.

Is their case against fail0verflow, who found most of the vulnerabilities geohot actually used to jailbreak it (and re-ported Linux, for example), still on? There's not many details in this post or anywhere else online.

I wonder what the 'permanent injunction' prevents him from doing?<p>Having been in similar situations in court facing virtually unlimited legal budgets and opposing counsel focused on PR victories I can understand why geohotz settled, however, the wording of the statement tells me that the permanent injunction agreed to actually doesn't prevent much otherwise it would be more heavily touted.<p>I have a feeling this statement "a preliminary injunction was issued requiring Hotz to take down the postings challenged by SCEA." reveals that the injunction was to permanently remove the postings. (eg. Hotz won!)

Sucks. He should have gone down the road, fighting for his rights to <i>legally</i> hack the PS3.

I wonder how much the anonymous pressure weighed on their decision for a quick settlement?

Does this mean my donation to his 'defense fund' was actually paid to Sony as part of the settlement?

Meh, PS3 is the last console I'll ever buy. I guess for Sony this is a Pyrrhic victory. What they have done is gone out of their way to prove that no, you don't own that box. You bought a box and we can change the contents.

"Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property <i>and our consumers.</i>"<p>Yeah, right. I just hope that any manufacturers of the stuff I own will refrain from "protecting" me in a similar way.

For me, the damage to Sony has already been done. I will never buy another Sony product as long as I live.

It seems the settlement documents are available on psx-scene.com

Any details on the settlement?

I wonder if the recent Anonymous attacks, specifically on Howard Stringer's family, had anything to do with this.

It almost seems like the the sony comments are filtered to only display pro sony comments. Its sad to see so many people cheer for sony.

The comments on that post seem awfully one-sided.

GeoHot raised arms for a battle. George Hotz exited through the alley.

Where's the beef? There are no real details.

Final judgement with more details if anyone's interested, kinda disappointing actually.<p><a href="http://goo.gl/NAvNl" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/NAvNl</a>

ka...wha?! I want my money back! I didnt support him so he can settle?!