First round of donations is closed
Thank you so so much for all of your help, things are looking up money wise.
Expect to see a few more lawyers on my responses!
I have enough to cover my legal fees for the time being.
And in the absolute worst case scenario, we don't want Sony getting it :-P
For now, the best thing you can do is spread the word
Let people know how Sony treats customers
Let people know Sony would rather sue than be proactive and try to fix the problem
Let people know about laws like the DMCA which stifle innovation, and don't do anything to fix the problems they were created to solve
I will keep this blog updated as the case develops.
Expect to see a few more lawyers on my responses!
I have enough to cover my legal fees for the time being.
And in the absolute worst case scenario, we don't want Sony getting it :-P
For now, the best thing you can do is spread the word
Let people know how Sony treats customers
Let people know Sony would rather sue than be proactive and try to fix the problem
Let people know about laws like the DMCA which stifle innovation, and don't do anything to fix the problems they were created to solve
I will keep this blog updated as the case develops.
posted by George Hotz at
3:38 AM
196 Comments:
good luck buddy
Good luck!
maybe you will make a reward gift to all of us with the unlock for I4...;)
Yes! ;)
I wish I had an iPhone unlock, the simple BB holes appear closed(my fuzzer comes up blank). In fact, I'm still using my 3GS cause I don't have one :-/
sorry, I could not find out your donation information in the web. could you please send the donation info. to kuochungliao@gmail.com. thanks.
I am ready to donate in Round 4.
Thanks from Greece
it shouldn`r be hard for you to make one , you are Geohot , the first person in the world that hacked iphone...:)
Good luck bud! Keep going :D
I installed Linux Ubuntu at the first day that I bought PS3 before I played any PS3 game. Sony stole my Linux and didn't give me back my 10GB space from the Linux partition after I upgraded their firmware. Now, my PS3 HDD still has the 10GB partition for my original Linux because I haven't formatted it. This is the time for us to bring this back now!
Good luck man. I was going to donate since I just read this, but round one is closed. Let us know if you need a round two.
You got almost all of Nextgenupdate(100K) behind you Geohot.
may the force be with you!!
hope you open up donations again soon. would really love to support. you need to win this to teach sony and all the hardware manufacturers of the world that when we PURCHASE a product, WE OWN IT! and they need to learn the we're going to do whatever the hell we want with OUR HARDWARE! go kick some perverbial DMCA ASS!!
safe man p00n these a** holes in the court dude, i missed the donations, but if and when you need more you have some coming from me! Good luck dude peace
Good Luck Geohot... the whole of userland is ready to back you up to kick some Sony Ass.
hope they will realise that they might own their hardware/software but their customers are earned not owned.
Stop bothering the man about an unlock, Musclenerd will release one after 4.3 is out as stated on Twitter. Let George focus 100% on his epic trial ahead. All the best from Australia!
Great dude. You got full support from Macedonia. ;)
Damn, I was looking for a place to donate but it was closed already.
Hey G, I am following you everywhere. **You will WIN this!**
I do not have a Paypal account yet but I will create one for the next Round of donations.
SONY, how is this any good for you?!
I will do what ever I can to support GEOHOT in his fight at my location (ISRAEL).
I will do what ever I can to HOLD any SONY purchase at my location (ISRAEL).
Hackers around the world, Please continue your work on PS3. Sony needs to understand going after individuals is WRONG and will only lead to antagonism!
"SONY" - You are making a Joke of yourself!
good luck man.
I hope you defeat sony and there nazi suits loved the video by the way
I was going to give you 30 nzd for the fight tomorrow as i had to wait for it to transfer to my debit plus card the card sony currently will try steal money from
Say can you get them for stealing credit card info as i cannot delete it from psn because i have to agree to there new terms of service which i choose not to.
hope you win I am sick of corporation control and being spyed on by sony more than anyone and our consoles are ours.
i came too late, but if a next donation round open´s i will donate to you with proude!! Portugal is with you in this cause.
keep the good work and smash those bastards
hw ant plans to have a jailbreak/hack for the Xbox 360
Best of luck man. By the way, should you re-open for a round of donations, please consider the fact that paypal is not available in all countries. Try adding moneybookers/alertpay donation support to allow Pakistan to do it's share :)
I donated yesterday and will again next round. Happy this is picking up speed.
I herby commit to avoid buying any Sony product Until the court makes its final ruling!!
Yuval Golan
Israel
You should re-open the donation system, I wanted to give you some cash but didn't know it was possible until now.
donerò nel secondo round! geo hot rules!
Good luck bro
As a student I couldn't donate as much as I wanted but for every round I will sell one of my PS3 games on ebay. I just can't play on the PS3 anymore - it sickens me.
Try to find something through which you can break your jail after being locked down behind the bars,enough with custom firmwares for now.
support from saudi arabia get them GEO!
Poor Boy. First you rap like a big Gangster and now you have noe Money for Lawyer. Mimimimi!
Go begging elsewhere
You are all just pathetic hypocrites...
good luck! Poland love you!
Wow that was quick. I came along to donate only to discover that the masses had beaten me to it, and you'd closed the round. I'm in for round 2!
geohot!! scrue Sony just like they scrued you, have a sitdown with Bill Gates, with his support you could really kick Sonys as to the moon. He was really possitive about XBMC when he saw it he haven't mutch influence in the company anymore so they scrued up his idea. I bet if he gets some security input from you he could help you legally against Sony.
You know the saying My Enemys Enemy is my friend? Go american, Help Bill safely set up a Linux core so we can enjoy XBMC again, this time on the 360. It was ment for xbox and not for Sony PS3 anyway, I hoped for a media player solution for the PS3 but I lost my intrest just like all the hackers. I Buyed game because they look great when you have people over but I want a XBMC player that can play everything don't care about games anyway. If your going to help anyone with their security go microsoft, their legal team could really crush the Parasites Sony, and they judge wouldn't dare to take any bribes knowing what resources micrsoft got right now the money they throw at her is easy picking. Admiting all the hearsay evidence a child could se she's either in their pocket or has Alzhaimerz. Try to ask her what year it is the next time you se her. Then we know for sure. it feels more and more as a russian trail, meaning she made up her mind already, now she tries to make it the best way she can just to not look to suspicious. Admitting all that hearsay evidence makes her look like she never went to law school. If I write on a Blogg George W Bush Robbed a bank and somebody quotes me will George W be arrested? If she was the judge he absolutely would. I hate corruption especially when it's this obvious.
I hope for the best anyway she can't change the laws after the fact, and you should apeal, any normal judge would grant it.
It's a shame we can't donate anymore, I hoped to donate some every month just donated 10 bux and wanted donate more when my checck arrives the 25th and continue every 25th, please let us donate, just a certain date or something. I Love you for all the great progz I can use from Cydia all thanks to you, it's great not to have to replace the Blu Ray player in the PS 3 to but I will never buy Sony for the rest of my life, maybe except if you JailBreak it to then I buy a used one. But going after you was their greatest mistake your the peoples greatest freedomfighter, I hope you go down in history as the true hero that you are. Remember the founding faders of USA were also railroaded by the britttish, look how that turned out. Don't ever give up we are there to support you and all money we would wasted on Sony crap we rather give to you. You have the people behind you and SONY is the SATAN, never again Sony I go Xbox from now on prefered games on Blu Ray, they seemed more valuable but I still put my xbox games on the hardrive so it doesn't matter, microsoft did this possible for us ages ago and Sony still strugless. I Will try out the Kinect, prefered the PS controller but you can get used to anything, maybe I buy some datel converter or something.
God luck and turn on your PayPal every 25th please
If you need a round two we got more in the wings buddy!
@hornedreapery2k @False Shut the fuck up bitches! GeoHot is a smart and nice guy that need our help for this honorable cause. You must to put your 20 finger in your asses and check if so you feel good bitches! c'mon haters, go and spread your shit elsewhere!
lmao @hornedreapery2k
OK yes maybe geohot has shown a little ego that has pissed off some people. But do not forget that the result of this case has a direct affect on all of us. Also note that this case is going to cost a lot in legal fees! I ask you hornedreapery2k, do you have US$10,000 you can spare for a trial which is nowhere near finished? Cos this is what it has cost geohot so far, and asking the scene is not begging, geohot is representing all of us so it is only fair that some of us help and donate so that we can all get the result we want, not the draconian result sony want.
George dont know if you got my email, but in the statement sony published they clearly state that using cfw is not illegal, its only illegal if it involves piracy. Hope you use their statement as evidence as they have twisted your words so much.
Okay! Finally I just got a job and wanted to donate some money and then the donation has ended. Great!
When will round 2 be open?
Hey bro firstly I'm not a big fan of the way you've done things in the past with that being said, once a corporation tries to assassinate a "free individual" we all have a responsibility to support and defend what's right no matter what we think of that individual! We either hang together or we WILL hang separate! Sorry I missed this last round of donations, if the chance comes around again I will help out regardless of how I feel about you and I hope others do the same! Thank you for keeping up the fight for hardware freedom!
David from Dallas TX
Good luck take'em down
Getting from Poland
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@djgeo
Go teach some lesson about how to talk. GayHot is the biggest clown I've ever seen. He is not even a pirate, not to mention a hacker. He is nothing more that just a clown. And you who supports him are most dumbest people. Instead of buying some games you give your own money to this clown for paying his lawyers. Look at yourself. You blame Sony for something but still willing to play on Sony's console. If you dissapointed in Sony go crash your PS3 and stop crying about how cruel Sony is. You just like babies. What a pity...
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002100199995
Add to SUPPORT!
Go to hell man, you are killing PS3 , cheaters everywhere.... thank you :/
Good luck from Finland too!!
great buddy... God Bless You
I am with you Geohot, screw Sony. Once you pay for your stuff, you own it baby! You can do what you want with it, whenever, wherever, and however.
When the 2nd round donation come out, let me know, front row on that man!
Keep up the awesome hack man!
I'm ready to donate next round !
You are a genius thank you !
I pay lot of money for ps3 and I can't play ps2 games it's not fair
I never ever had done a donation before.
With this one, after reading geohot call for help, I donated immediately.
Sony does not have a chance...
Let me start off by saying I have no qualms with your initial round of hacking. What bothers me is your general attitude towards the court case. Simply put, you need to learn to shut the fuck up when it comes to your case. Even a fool could tell that you're digging yourself into a deeper hole every time you make some stupid YouTube video about your case. The mere concept that people would trust you with their money so you can pull stupid shit like that makes me worry.
Good job I say. It's unfortunate that so many are unable to differentiate the online cheaters from those that would like to use their PS3 for their own legitimate purposes.
I'd be more than happy if sony were to come to the party and facilitate home brew developers, as I'm sure the home-brew community would welcome efforts to secure the remainder of the PS3 ecosystem.
Sony could avoid all of this trouble if they'd get off their paranoid high horse and provide a clear path to re-enabling linux and opening up the possibility of legitimate home-brew development. They could even follow apple's lead and start making a buck out of it in the form of a PSN-AppStore..
As it is, all they've done is lock out otherwise legitimate home brew enthusiasts from continuing to spend their money in the PSN Store, which hurts nobody but themselves.
Good luck Dude !!!World owe you since iPhone 07!!
We Support you fanatically,
Greece loves you !!!
JSGARDAS
I think it's better open the other blogs and his twitter account than an i4 unlock :D Good luck George!
how much did you get by the donations
Good luck! I did not have time to donate :( Let us know if you need more donations.
Have you considered help us free our motorola droid, droidx/s ;)
Geohot, $ONY started a war since they broke the law by removing one of the best feautures PS3 had (OTHEROS), they broke the law already and stole our money as well. I paid $745USD when the first PS3 came in, and now I am so disappointed of what they $ONY did with their updates. I had my PS3 with CFW and i use it for legal purposes by using emus, and apps. I own my games so the best ones I have I backed them up to keep them like new in their cases. I paid $ony for the hardware, so they have to respect on what we do it !!!!!! and besides, yes, $ony there are some morons that use piracy, but isn't there better ways to detect piracy?? you guys need to learn about microsoft, which in security they are much better than you guys are... Why just don't ban using PSN? because PSN is your server!!! why don't you just ban accounts??? and guess how to detect it?? cheating? relevant EBOOT or CD ID?? there are tons of ways doing that!!!!! so $ony you better watch it cause next time, no one will buy your consoles ever again! and I won't!! hope all the ones in the forum think the same, and then you guys will go to bankruptcy and then who will laugh at you?? YOUR CURRENT CONSUMERS!!!!!!
WHEN YOU GO TO THE COURT, CHANGE THE WORD "HACKING" TO "CODING" OR "PROGRAMING" OR "CREATING SOFTWARE"...! DON'T EVER USE THE WORD "HACKING" IN COURT! YOU MAY WIN IF YOU AVOID SONY SUE YOU AS A HACKER! KEEP IN MIND ALL THE TIME, THAT YOU ARE A PROGRAMMER, NOT A HACKER!!! GOOD LUCK GEOHOT! SORRY THAT I LIVE IN VIETNAM, I CAN'T DONATE MONEY...>___<!!!
ok, so at first I read the /. article and was like "ya, this seems like something I can get behind" But then I saw the Sony/Ps3 rap video. Awesome. Now I'm bumbed I missed the donation window. I'll be back to make my donation when you need moar chedda to fight Sony.
Good luck George. Sony have picked the wrong fight here.
Chin up dude!
Regards,
Kup
Good luck dude, whenever u reopen the donations, I've got ur back
Remember, Never give up :)
Geohot why didnt you answer my mail? :(
heh.. now thats ironic =)
Sony's "OtherOS" class-action lawsuit... see here http://arst.ch/obh
Wishing you the best of luck with this!
The fact that Sony is a big company and can afford lots of lawyers should not mean the an automatic win in court. But hey, you're still standing! If you didn't have a leg to stand on they would have pushed you over and walked over you long ago!
you have our support geo, with love from lebanon.
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how was it? "Mess with the Best, die like the Rest"
I do not understand one thing. Actually if I buy what, am I the owner, it is my.
so I can do with that what i want. Why is the law not the same opinion.
good luck!
Thank you to those who help GeoHot and other targeted by Sony, good luck.
P.S. : congratulations for your work.
@wesimaster: That is beautiful.
I love Sony's commitment to double standards.
If you accept bitcoins, you can count me in for a donation in the next round.
Came here to donate - I don't even own a PS. I'll keep my eyes open to see if you need more. Good luck.
Good luck!
Everyone make sure to donate as much as possible, this result will decide if YOU own YOUR system or if YOUR system ACTUALLY belong to sony.
From a small modder in Las Vegas - Plz let us know when your next round of donations is open I'm ready to donate $500 to the cause.
I'll never buy a Sony product again... Good luck !
apaguemos todos nuestras consolas solo por un día, a ver que respuesta nos da SONY, en apoyo a este movimiento
extinguish all our consoles just for one day, to see that SONY gives response in support of this movement
Justice 4 Geohot - don't buy Sony products, bought the t-shirt and have donated already. Not mainly because he is the sole reason for me owning (read: wanting) an iPhone as he released the JB to free it, but also because if Sony wins it will set a precedent that MUST NOT prevail for the sake of ALL CONSUMERS across product lines.
We cannot afford to have Geohot lose this case. Please read his blog, gather info, make up your mind and you should come to ONE conclusion = donate whatever little or much you can! Anything else is fascist in its deepest sense.
They say jump, what do you say?
Why nobody let me know about donation. Maybe i can help u next time with money. By the way huge respect for u from my Mother xD she is so proud because someone will fihgt with corporations.
PS
Don't come to my country(Poland) because almost every ofw user want to kill u(few want to spend a night with you lol) and wish u 25 years in Jail.
Sometimes I don't want to have Polish blood in my body...
PS2 My uncle is a lawyer and have huge law office so i ask him about your case and this is his answer " If George make custom filmware and don't earn money(sell,rent etc) that's not a piracy and when u buy a car u can make what u want with this car(tuning mods etc).
PS3
Sony break law with rootkit. When someone steal u car from public parking. U can't install cameras on that parking(that's against law)
PS4 That's all for today and next week i start with polish blog with all bad things about sony and translate your site(not like on www.ps3site.pl) there everything about u is a huge lie(always Geohot is devil and sony is little angel with white wings)
you ARE NOT alone!
Not sure but if I remember right... The US Goverment sued Microsoft in the big Anti-trust suits... And if I remember right it was because of Microsoft blocking competition on the internet browser of choice since netscape was widely available at the time and Microsoft preloaded windows with internet explorer. seems pretty minimal.. What if Microsoft blocked usage of Netscape altogether they would have had a hay day.. Just a thought
If you need more money, I'm ready to donate $299.99 + $59.99. If you restart donations before March 8th, I'll add an additional $59.95.
I don't want to just boycott Sony, I want their products to become a liability. I want to see Goliath fall on its face.
I hope you Geohot the best luck ever, You rock sir
I don't use anything you wrote. I have a PS3, but I don't hack it. I use it like most people do. I have no intention of using anything you've done, either. However, I believe in what you are doing. Good luck.
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002100199995
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Good luck friend, I'll wait for the second round of donations!
The more I think about you purchasing more lawyers, I fail to see how the american justice truly operates. If a person is innocent, why does it matter, the amount of lawyers once gets. Does the amount of lawyers equate to the amount of evidence? I fail to see the correlation....If I'm guilty with blood on my hands, having a team of lawyers isn't going to change that..
Maybe someone with some insight can show me..
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Glad it went well, good luck man. You've got support for miles!
Gee. I wonder if Sony is responsible for spinning the cpu over a perioid of time in order to stress the solder on the cpu bga?
Remember the root kit on cd crap they pulled?
I wanted to donate to support you. Well I am glad that you are able to fight this. We all need you.
good luck geohot, sorry i could only donate $10
We are supporting you 100% from Guatemala, Central America. It's sad that $ony wants to walk all over his customers by doing this. I want to donate but I can't find how to, I believe donations are closed by now, but we are waiting for them to open again. You have our support from Guatemala!
Here is the petition i promised. Its a bit of a doozy. But its well written. :)
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ConsumersRights
Glad I got to donate this weekend! Everyone must spread the news! If you want to help and can no longer donate, let everyone you know what Sony is doing. Geohot I hope you win this case, it's not just for you but also for the rest of the consumers rights! I have been a huge Sony fan until the recent garbage they have been putting out... Sony if you are reading this, I know I am one person but this 1 person is the same as most of your consumers who you have pissed off beyond belief. I hope your corporation suffers irreparable damages. Other than the ps3 you have lost all future business from me. This case is the consumers vs Sony. We will not back down and will fully support the case in favor of our products that we PAID for. Now that this case is catching more attention, I hope (Sony) you start to realize the can of worms you have opened up!
You shouldnt hope that sony suffers irreparable damages. You should hope they open their eyes and see that through their great success comes from a fan base they have no respect for.
I don't hope for irreparable damages at all. At the end of the day, I'd love to shake hands with Sony, acknowledge what we each did, and move forward. Irreparable damages are only hoped for by people and corporations bent on revenge.
Donate to a cause worth a damn. Not some kid, scared cause he pissed off a giant.
http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
If you have money to donate, you have money to buy ORIGINAL GAMES.
Stop destroy the game industry and continue support the ART of games and stop hack ps3.
I know that the PS3 console is mine and that I should make whatever i want with my console!!... BUT now cause of you and other fellows, I lost the security I have on the console.
An example is COD MW2, in wish its almost impossible now to play online in a unhacked room and I NEVER jailbreak my PS3... The worst of all, is that someone with an modified game hacked my account so I lost all the online progress...
So, you said that we need to have freedom with our consoles? I think you'r right! BUT it seems that freedom make people loose their minds and mess with other people's freedom :(
Finally I think that what Blue Frenzy is right, even if you are not using the jailbreak or the code to use not original games, most of the people are. You have killed Guitar Hero Series, ¿what's next?
if i buy that table, i can fuck that table!!
We need people like you, i donated 1$!! Thanks and love from India!
@Asuez you can't blame him for other people missbehaving! i'm against cheating online and im for PSN bans cheating sucks cause you're killing the fun of others for your own....thats a selfish thought.If any cheaters read this think about what you're doing to others.
People tend to believe that the only thing Geo achieved was introducing piracy to the PS3 thats mostly wrong he did open the path for piracy but he never himself lead it ...And or Supported it ...he simply gave us ( Coders ) a new powerfull platform to code for and thats why im backing him in this case
Hey, we can boycott $ony's Facebook page if enough people REPORT THIS PAGE and select CONTAINS HATE SPEECH OR ATTACKS INDIVIDUAL (which is true!) - finally select TARGETS ME OR A FRIEND.
That should give a great surprise! :D
I know this is a little off topic but I browsed through dev_flash and couldnt help but notice copyright infringement in there. Freetype is dual licensed but the credit is not anywhere in the .pup file if it is used under the Freetype Project license, you have to hunt down such a credit page, but if it is under the other license (GNU General Public License) they are in even worse trouble. Freetype is the least infringing of the two.
/dev_flash/sys/external/libfreetype.sprx
/dev_flash/sys/external/libfreetypeTT.sprx
the other is more of a threat to Sony and the only way one would have known is by circumventing the PS3 TPMs and unlocking levels 1 and 2. Sony attempted to keep its illegal usage of libexif from going public by hiding it behind encryption. It too Geohot's jailbreak for me to see this truth. Sony is not angry. Sony is scared and guilty. libexif is under the GNU Lesser Public License which says that the source code CANNOT be denied to the end user even from derivative works and that anything that uses it must have a copy of the LGPL license agreement with it. I have yet to have found such a thing in ANY of Sony's documentation ANYWHERE and btw, there are multiple copies of this library in dev_flash. if the FSF knew of this, Sony would get sued.
/dev_flash/sys/external/libexif.sprx
(forgot where the other one is, the folder name has something to do with data)
libfreetype is a vector font rendering library while libexif is used to get misc. data from jpeg images taken by a digital camera, both are open source software.
Geohot if you are reading this, please win this case. This isn't the first time SCEA broke the law.
When you get time hack the X10 bootloader under a sudo name :P
很多人都在支持你！包括我！
@kram1024 good find. I handed over all my PS3 hacking stuff, so I cannot check. But I will bring it up to my lawyers.
Never give up on winning this battle. You will win this game.
good luck from bali Indonesia
we wait for the next donation..
Man you have a great talent inside but you applied it on the wrong field.I think you know the game devs do a lot of hard work to make a game and wish something from it.They don't develop a game for fun or because they are mad, they do it for feeding themselves because they have to live in this world like you and us.Making a game is not the job a babysitter it takes years of skills ,practice and devotion.It becomes there profession and they choose it to earn there living.What they do they really deserve it.
You may have developed something very great but you should have kept for your self.But you tried to become a celebrity,and yes you have become one.But these are the consequences you faced after it. What you have done to the devs,Sony has done nothing to you at all.So I think you deserve something more than what is going on with you. I will really donate you after you go to the jail,so they really feed you properly, and you leave long.Fu**er.
just do online poll(elections) that how many peoples r in "favour of jailbreak" srry
4 my english
F@CK u kaushik, wat do u know.
I pray that you win and send their BIG corporate asses packing!!!! Im so sick of these BIG Corp. Mofo's trying to stomp out the lil people who pay their hard earned money to keep their ass on top. How soon they forget we are who got them on top and we can take them down too!!!! You rock Geohot and I am behind you 100% cuz next thing you knowt hey will be up in our kitchen telling us how to cook our food, dress, wear our hair,and everything else!!!! This is the land of the Fuckin Free and Home of the Brave so Sony can suck it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont have sony ps3, but i am ur big fan since u unlockked iphone 2g for free...u have started doing this good job,sorry for bad english
But any how..keep doing good job always ur admirer
Akash
Don't give up brother, we are all with you...
France is with you !
GenralTOW
Geo to be honest I didn't donate since I still don't earn money, but did my best to spread the word. Please fight for our rights. Costa Rica is with u
they! take my money! open it!
New Zealand is also behind you dude. Good luck and stick it to them. next time you need cash I'm there
Props from Melbourne Australia. I'm in for the next round of donations. You are an inspiration.
G, The fight the fight that needs fighting speech comes to my mind. Does anyone remember learning the history of the company store, slavery, or inherited debt? Laws are fought for, they come and they go. Some survive the test of time others are ignored and many have been long since forgotten. The funniest thing I've read as of late was a reference to the law pertaining to horses that return to the seller after being sold. I was sued once. They were represented by the largest law firm in town. I represented myself and won. The funny thing was; I wanted to loose because of the precedent it would have set. When the Judge started what I call his getting ready to rule speech with a horse-trading story, I couldn't help but feel amused. My recollection of what he said is; "one day i bought a horse, the next day it had died, it appeared to be in good health and there was no explanation from the vet. i could have had it butchered or even stuffed i gave it to the vet school. only rode it twice" There was more to the story, but this is what I remember the most. Go to court,fight the fight and we will keep hacking away.
BTW the post about an alleged copyright violation perpetrated by Sony ...priceless Setec Astronomy, mother would be proud i know I AM
I just donated $1200 to Sony.
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GO BABY GO !!!!!! Own them for us :D
Came here to donate, will come back if you need support. Good luck!
Okay, can someone examine libexif.sprx and verify it is in fact a violation.
i got 5 dollar now..its for u .. please release ublock for bb 3.10.01
Well actually thinking about the LGPLv2, I'm not so sure it is a violation, except that they didn't make the source available for download. Libraries linked that are actually GPL and not LGPL are a violation.
It sucks that companies like Sony can use the work of the community, hell half their kernel is BSD, and then give lawsuits back. Now if someone can find some code, even a line, that's GPLv3...
I like what they they did in GPLv3 saying you can implement DRM using GPLed software, but you can't sue people for breaking it...that's how I think the world should be.
Good Luck m8! Greetz from Germany! ;-)
Best of luck Geohot from Australia! Fight the good fight.
Good Luck ... i hope you win becouse u a great !
GREAT GEOHOT
good luck!!!
I have no idea what you just said Mr Hotz, but good luck.
good luck!! :)
Hang in there buddy! Denmark loves you.
good luck from Cyprus
Good Luck from Norway..
Thanks for not giving up!
Good Luck from Germany & G-Empire.eu!
good luck ^^
Good luck from Ukraine.
I am not a user of Sony but for the user of your product iPhone.
When I need donations to help as I can.
Hold on.
Sorry for the English.
Why don't you sue Sony for antitrust law offend?
you are a lucky guy you will win this war !!!! we wait unlock iphone4 4.2.1 good luck from romaniaaa SILVIU
good luck from iran!!!
i say to my uncle that donate u from canada.
geo please give us your unlock fro ip4 . if you want!!!
I don't think you understand that people are using your ingenuity, whatever your intentions, to make games less fun for everyone. You have to accept responsibility for the applications of your technology. You are not "innocent" in this. You may not support piracy in theory, but you are supporting it in practice.
GEO,
I donated to your DF and I love the boycott Sony idea. I appreciate what you have done for the JB community and support your efforts to defeat borg thinking.
LGgeek
Just keep it serious. I don't mind humor but make sure people understand that you are dead serious when you talk about what your fighting for. I think the cause has a good chance if there is focus. Next round of donations I will help out. This is to important.
good luck Geo, I'f there is a next round of donations let us know.
Thanks for not giving up
eagleeye8ball George should not be blamed, and is not responsible for what others do with his jailbreak. There are so many reasons why he is not responsible for the pirates or cheaters but I wont go into any of them and I will simply ask you a few questions. When a madman kills someone with a gun. Is it the shooter's fault or the fault of the gun manufacturer? When a drunk driver kills a mother and child is it the drunk driver's fault or the fault of the maker of the liquor the drunk driver drank? Use your head before you senselessly blame someone that does not deserve to be blamed.
Thank you geohot for Figthing gainst SOny for all Customers!
RESPECT of your Energy and Durability!
I Wish u no Luck, I Wish you a Correct Working Justizia!
greetz
Good luck with your lawsuit. I really hope everything goes well. I believe the law is on your side. Good for you for not being intimidated and backing down (Sony's preferred outcome I think)
I also hear you're going to be helping us XDA X10ers with our bootloader... VERY exciting!
geo, actually a copy of the LGPL has to be provided with the library for it to be legal according to the license and v.3 says a copy of the GPL license needs to be provided too.
When is the court trial?
GeoHot - good luck. I am one of the many waiting for your next unlock (iphone 4 baseband 3.10.01)to be released. I hope you are victorious in your fight against Sony. I will be looking out for round 2 of donations.
Portugal its like the rest of the Europe...in the hands of the corporations.Even the politicians and the justice system are in the hands of economical interests.I'm tired of being pushed around and have no chance of fighting back alone, following your struggle makes me believe it is possible,people come together when we least expect. Go my friend, win this for all of us...
Yes, let us know (eg, on Linux Today) if you need more money later on. I'd rather contribute here than to Sony products.
It's definitely a violation. To take advantage of the linking exception, they MUST let you replace the library with an upgraded version or one improved by you, which they clearly are not doing!
Im not buying sony products anymore. Hope you kick sony's butt.
it does not matter what Sony will seek to ban in the process from one court to another, the process of adaptation can not be stopped! Geohot you're a legend is not worth wasting their strength and intelligence on sheer injustice!be cool:))
hallo here from colombia many people are with u , dont surrender u r the master of masters , sony is not good with clients and they doesnt matter colombia we will be with u .
Cała Polska trzyma za Ciebie kciuki, trzymaj się stary
I am sure SONY will beg you soon to settle .... stick to your conditions and let them bleed !! you know now that "the crowd" is 100% behind you ... not even 100 lawyers are worth this, your case is setting precedence and writing the history !!
since SONY actually does not have anything unique, it is not so hard decision to make .... from today on, I will not even think about to buy something from them.
GOOD LUCK PAL !!!
As geohot said, LGPL does allow cross linking between proprietary software and LGPL software but the source code needs to be provided though it also says that a copy of the LGPL needs to be provided with it as well so that the end user knows what rights it grants. The reason why the LGPL is rarely suggested to be used for libraries is because people have tried to take advantage of the FSF by using it in a way that is unintended by the open source initiative.
Free Software is free as in freedom, not free as in free beer. (as told by the reactos team)
Companies don't appreciate what you're doing. Sony should have sent you a job offer. Microsoft still has the chance. Obviously, you should do what you want and I'm sure you'll do it well.
I hope that everything goes well for you and that you defeat Sony in the courts.
Stay true to yourself and stay humble. Do your best.
geohot--a legend indeed, keep it up.
good luck man, many people support you
We are wishing your success against SONY , good luck
i don't have PS3, but i have an iphone4 stucked with 2.10.04 baseband really need your help! Anyway, Goodluck and GO GEOHOTZ! I always supported you.
Since people don't seem to understand, I'll quote the relevant section of the LGPLv2
"6. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also combine or link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a work containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work under terms of your choice, provided that the terms permit modification of the work for the customer's own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications."
(looks like Sony is trying to do this, but their terms aren't permitting modification. Letting customers replace the library wold probably count for this if they did it, but see below)
"You must give prominent notice with each copy of the work that the Library is used in it and that the Library and its use are covered by this License. You must supply a copy of this License."
(they aren't doing this, but that's easy to fix)
" If the work during execution displays copyright notices, you must include the copyright notice for the Library among them, as well as a reference directing the user to the copy of this License."
(a little harder to fix. they need to update firmware)
"Also, you must do one of these things:"
(here's the biggie)
"a) Accompany the work with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code for the Library including whatever changes were used in the work (which must be distributed under Sections 1 and 2 above); and, if the work is an executable linked with the Library, with the complete machine-readable "work that uses the Library", as object code and/or source code, so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified executable containing the modified Library. (It is understood that the user who changes the contents of definitions files in the Library will not necessarily be able to recompile the application to use the modified definitions.)"
(they sure as hell aren't doing this! This would let you replace the library with an exploitable one)
"b) Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that (1) uses at run time a copy of the library already present on the user's computer system, rather than copying library functions into the executable, and (2) will operate properly with a modified version of the library, if the user installs one, as long as the modified version is interface-compatible with the version that the work was made with."
(storing the library on /dev/flash is NOT a suitable shared library mechanism! Again if you could replace this, you could exploit)
"c) Accompany the work with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give the same user the materials specified in Subsection 6a, above, for a charge no more than the cost of performing this distribution."
(rofl. WRite sony, ask for the source, or a usable binary to relink the lib against?)
"d) If distribution of the work is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, offer equivalent access to copy the above specified materials from the same place."
(i don't see that on the firmware download site!)
"e) Verify that the user has already received a copy of these materials or that you have already sent this user a copy."
(I sure as hell haven't already got that.)
"For an executable, the required form of the "work that uses the Library" must include any data and utility programs needed for reproducing the executable from it."
Gee. I wonder what that is? ;)
I think we shold team up to sue Sony not just in US. If possiable, i think we should sue Sony in Europe, Canada, or even in Japan at the same time.
i needs twos sends moar muniez
Geohotz thanks to you and Chaf for standing up to Sony. Before long they will be the Cops literally breaking down your door for music and movies. They put their nice melodies on commercials, movies, radio and other media. Your addicted to it and like a crack addicted who can't afford a hit your downloading it. Now we make it a crime and raid your house. This is reality and has nothing to do with hacking. You are our hero we will stand by you through this thing. We are watching and boycotting Sony Playstation, TV's movies and anything else with the Logo. Put a stop to their money!!!!
I donate money to Gehot, and now paypal has suspended my account! Unbelievable..
George Hotz PP-001-229-xxx-xxx Inquiry by PayPal
Temporary Hold
-$10.00 USD 2/26/2011 Awaiting other party's response
how could donate now and where? apart from paypal
Hey man, I'm in college and not able to drop much, but I agree that this is BS. Next time you're taking up donations, shoot me an email at bewulf007@hotmail.com and we can set up a paypal or something.
Good luck man, may the force be with you
we're with you. when you need more donations, we'll be there.
You WILL win, JUST SAYING bro :]
Hi hotz.
i guess that i have alsow late a bit.
go forword my freind,i will monitor your bloge to stay up to date about your fight with sony.
next round ill be in to.
the searcher from Israel
good luck and dont forget: when you will need us look back,we will be there with you
Amit Shriqui
עמית שריקי
May The Force Be With You
dont worry bro we are with u :) just keep it on on and on.
never minde those sony bastards ,they think that they own us just because we bought theire machine ,hell no , the consumers are safe as long as we have fighters like you .
good luck man i hope that u own them big time and get this turned against them and get all systems opened up farther
every time I read something else those pricks at sony have done or said, I want to give you money! :(I missed the first round) just say the word!
George Hotz said...
At the end of the day, I'd love to shake hands with Sony, acknowledge what we each did, and move forward. Irreparable damages are only hoped for by people and corporations bent on revenge.
Sometimes I think you are too nice for this world, consisting of greed and power. Sony want to destroy your life and make you responsable for their own mistakes, and you can seriously think about shaking their hands at the end of all? I can't understand such an oppinion, but maybe your attitude is the key to change this system. I hope Apple looks at Sony and see what happen, when they threat the community and owners. Such succesful companies must learn to accept mistakes...
Best wishes from Germany
Good luck geohot! We love you.
geohot keep on going!
sony should realise it is not the only company in the world getting thier product hacked!
we understand why you can't upgrade an hacked iphone, and why the online gaming is banned for hacked Xbox, but this is too much!
it's time to stick it back to the man!
good luck man, you are a king and all the community is right behind you!
Hi guys,
GeoHotz, I am fully supporting you. I am gonna follow your case for any news and also I will do anything to help.
I have tweet and post and spread the words. I find SCEA very inappropriate and nonprofessional solving their mistake in court.
I myself do not own any PS3. I was a big fan of PS2 but PS3 I find it too over power and not doing much. It is not that is a bad console but I left Sony's console because I hate their corporate methodology and strategies.
And as we can see, they do not care about homebrew community and worst, their customers.
Keep it up GeoHotz, I will keep looking your blog for any news.
Keep it up pal, from Panama we support you!
Saludos desde Panama. Fuerza!!!
hey george, u said u were using the 3gs. did u unlock it or are u stuck with 05.15.04 like the rest of us.
Damn apple!!
good luck man.. sure you'll win it
Since donations are closed for round one, the least I'll do is never buy a Sony again in my life!
Really Appreciate your contribution to the community.
Our support from India is with you.
I was about to be convicted of a criminal case in Maine and was about a few days to the court case when a friend introduced to someone who he thought could help me out..I never believed in magic or miracles until this happened..Hours to the court verdict,something happened and my case was withdrawn for no apparent or legal reasons...I don't no how or what happened but I was never convicted..he made it happen..everything changed for me..if you do need a change like I did,because we all need some at some point in our lives,this is is address: odonshiraad@gmail.com
Brasilian boy says in portuguese: Estamos torcendo por voce cara, esses imbecis mercenarios da $ony so pensam em $$$$, eu que era um grande consumidor da marca por ter boa qualidade, agora vejo que temos outras opcoes de qualidade que nao seja mercenaria como a $ony
que Deus esteja com vc nessa luta, é o que todos nos brasileiros desejamos a você.
If you need more donation, please contact me at androidcoolguy at h*tm*il dot com. I think you know what to replace * with and change the email address if you are not a spam bot. Looking at Steve Balmer's bald head will also give you a hint.
Is this the site of hacker pf ps3?
geohot você é o cara conseguir invadir o site da ps sou seu fã
se coce precisar de alguém pra te ajudar pode contar comigo so que eu sou do brazil
abraços
Too bad the lawsuit didn't work out.
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