Sony suing GeoHot and failOverflow over PS3 hacking

Sony has finally decided to break their silence take matters into their hands. The giant is suing Geohot, failOverflow, and multiple other individual hackers for ripping the PS3 security to shreds.

GeoHot has posted a pdf of the summons on his website.

SCEA has filed a complaint with the Northern Californian District Court against George Hots (GeoHot), Hector Martin Cantero & Sven Peter (fail0verflow), and 100 “does”, or unnamed defendants are calling for a temporary restraining order and an order of impoundment. The company intends to restrain the hackers from further illegal activity, including manufacturing and distributing hacking tools, or they will “succeed in their attempts to ensure that pirated software can be run on the PS3 System, resulting in the destruction of SCEA’s business.”

Sony has accused them of “circumvented effective technological protection measures … employed by SCEA to protect against unauthorized access to and/or copying of … PlayStation 3 computer entertainment systems … and other copyrighted works” and for also having “trafficked in circumvention technology, products, services, methods, codes, software tools, devices, component or part thereof, including but not limited to the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm Keys, encryption and/or decryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter program, Signing Tools, 3.55 Firmware Jailbreak, and/or any other technologies that enable unauthorized access to and/or copying of PS3 Systems and other copyrighted works.”

On January 3rd, GeoHot published the PS3′s root key and custom firmware popped up two days later.