Sony Taking American PS JailBreak Resellers to Court

Submitted by greg; September 03, 2010

Sony's next stop on their PS JailBreak Tour is the United States of America! SCEA just hit Zoomba LDC, who is apparently operating under shoppsjailbreak.com, with charges including copyright violation. Just because "jailbreak" is in the name doesn't make it legal under the DMCA.

The suit was filed on Tuesday in the California Northern District Court, and accuses Zoomba of copyright infringement, violations of the digital millennium copyright act and trademark infringement. SCEA is seeking damages and an injunctive relief, which would block the sale of the devices.

My money's on Sony. - source: kotaku

Tags: Injunction, PS JailBreak, Sony, Zoomba LDC

^^ lol u guys are funny

I love how ot makes no diffrence to everyone who didnt buy a dongle and still tends to someday jailbreak it. Couse the source code is released and free now !! Just wait until its ported to commom devices most of us have.

JUST DONT UPDATE!!

But if nothing is usefull for me by november 9th, the day cod black ops comes out, im updating.

# Keyser Soze 2010-09-03 13:44

First of all, Australia has much tougher restrictions on modchips, modding, cracking or whatever you want to call it across all devices and platforms. So it's not surprising they recently banned the sale of psjailbreak.
USA ban will follow as more LEGAL details of the lawsuit arise. Does the modchip infringe on copyright/patents claimed by SCEA in their USB dongle devices or otherwise?
Or is the copyright infringement based solely on SCEA's claim that the psjailbreak devices pop their virginal cherry, allowing unsigned code to run? If it's the latter, they will lose. Although the psjailbreak can be used for evil (pirating), legally speaking SCEA might not have a leg to stand on any more than Apple. SCEA could try to use the Australia ruling as precedent but this is the USA, not a world court. So whatever was ruled in Draconian Australia won't necessarily fly around here.

I'm not worried. Worst case scenario: buy it from Canada (if you're in the USA) when the clones attack the market at decent rates with sufficient support (updates, etc). It will be more like the DS flash cart scenario. Watch.

# Keyser Soze 2010-09-03 13:56

to clarify... Or is the copyright infringement based solely on SCEA’s claim that the psjailbreak devices pop their virginal cherry, allowing unsigned code to run? If it’s the latter, SCEA*** will lose the lawuit.

# Darkrocker 2010-09-03 14:16

I was shocked that Sony won in Australia, but Australia has very different laws regarding back ups and mod chips than the US does. I'm very hopeful that Sony will LOSE this case and maybe even have to pay some damages. But even if they win... it's out. The code is all over the web. It's being ported to cell phones and usb dev boards left and right. Sony can't stop it now so either way they lose. I can't wait till this supports PS2 back ups. I have about 50 something great PS2 games collecting dust in the back of my closet lol

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# Dazbobaby 2010-09-03 14:54

With the case being heard in California it makes me worried.
But if it's heard in San Francisco it could very well go against Sony.

# Bum 2010-09-03 15:07

Dude, I would love to be able to rip all my ps2 games to the HDD. That would be SICKKKKKK!

# Bum 2010-09-03 15:09

You know, I'm actually surprised that this was never released before.
Like a pissed off ex employee that would just rip and release the code or something.
Someone jacking one from the back room at work at Sony, you know?
They have some good employees there!

# omnipotentidiot 2010-09-03 15:13

I'm actually in favor of Sony on this one, shopsjailbreak was a pathetic site that looked like a 7 year old threw together. never trusted it.

# Ronaldinho0927 2010-09-03 16:00

Idk y sony is suing. Theyre not gonna stop all the hackers. The only they sony can do is create a anti hackable fw update or something but idk if thats even possible. Does anyone know if thats possible?

# jinkssick 2010-09-03 16:10

Its like the battle against torrents. Didnt they say they will eradicate it completely, *searches google for any new movie torrents*

Yep, they won.

Code is out, all Sony is doing is hoping to get a bit of money here and there.

# Dariusc 2010-09-03 17:32

We want to be able to run the ps2 games, not pirate them. Thats the reason Sony dont want the modchips to be run because of piracy.

# anon 2010-09-03 19:26

sony can no longer stop this pandora's box has been opened

# Bum 2010-09-03 19:39

Did I say anything about piracy? wtf, I can already play the games on my system brah.
"be able to rip them to the HDD"
^that's not piracy if I own the game.......
wow.

# Schadrach 2010-09-04 07:53

Other than the fact that no other homebrew than the Backup Manager has been developed yet in the tiny amount of time that anyone could have possibly been able to work on it (other than the devs of the BM, noone has had the capability to even try for more than a week or two), how is this not the same case as jailbreaking an iPhone. You have to do it for interoperabilit y.

# Dariusc 2010-09-04 15:20

People can goto video stores, rent a game, rip it onto the hdd on the ps3, and bring it back. Sony dont want that. And soon, people will be sharing .pkg files from the ps3 blue ray disc via torrents and other crap which will spread privacy more.

I am not really into games, but the homebrew development on the ps3. I wont even upgrade to the new fw if it comes out (unless its 100% safe).

# col 2010-09-05 00:22

whats the difference of the legalness of jail breaking the iphone and the ps3 its pretty much the same thing yes jailbreaking a iphone is legal and the ps3 isnt ?

# Bum 2010-09-05 10:03

/sigh

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