Sony Wins Restraining Order Against PlayStation 3 Hacker George Hotz

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Score -1 for the little guy, as that restraining order Sony was cooking up for the intrepid PlayStation 3 security breach author, Geroge Hotz just went through after Sony managed to convince a judge to keep the case in San Francisco and the important part, has demonstrated that the hack can cause irreparable harm to Sony’s business during the duration of the trial.

1. Offering to the public, creating, posting online, marketing, advertising, promoting, installing, distributing, providing, or otherwise trafficking in any circumvention technology, products, services, methods, codes, software tools, devices, component or part thereof, including but not limited to the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (“ECDSA”) Keys, encryption and/or decryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter program, Signing Tools, 3.55 Firmware Jailbreak, root keys, and/or any other technologies that enable unauthorised access to and/or copying of PS3 Systems and other copyrighted works (hereinafter, “Circumvention Devices”).
2. Providing links from any website to any other website selling, offering for sale, marketing, advertising, promoting, installing, importing, exporting, offering to the public, distributing, providing, posting, or otherwise trafficking in any Circumvention Devices.
3. Engaging in acts of circumvention of TPMs in the PS3 System to access, obtain, remove, or traffic in copyrighted works.
4. Engaging in unauthorised access to the PS3 System or the PlayStation Network in order to obtain, access, or transmit any program, code, information or command therein.
5. Publishing, posting, or distributing any information, code, program, instructions, video, or other mateiral obtained by circumventing TPMs in the PS3 System or by engaging in unauthorised access to the PS3 Sysytem or the PSN.
6. Assisting, facilitating or encouraging others to engage in the conduct set forth above in Nos. 1-5.

George Hotz needs to hand over any “computers, hard drives, CD-roms, DVDs, USB stick, and any other storage devices on which the Circumvention Devices are stored” within ten days or else. And you only ask a judge to expand on the “or else” if you feel that your life can only ever be complete if you spend it in a tiny room with a large tattooed gentleman named Bubba.