George Hotz, PS3 Hacker Says Sony Sued Him Because He Made Them Mad

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We’d say that’s about the gist of it. If the name sounds familiar, it might be because he’s also the guy who coded the first iPhone jailbreak, but it’s probably because he’s been in the press quite a lot ever since word got around that he’d cracked the gaming industry’s most successful anti-piracy scheme. And here he is in an interview, explaining the whole Sony trial debacle in his own words.

Also in his own words, he’s made “a specific effort while working on this to try and enable homebrew without enabling things [...] like piracy.” “This” being, you guessed it, the jailbreak. The road to court is paved with good intentions, as they say and while I certainly hope a judge can see his way to accepting the fact that this new hack has been designed to impede piracy and doesn’t even support the original method that made piracy possible in the first place, were we George Hotz, we wouldn’t be making any long term plans.