After being hit with a restraining order from Sony earlier this week for allegedly bypassing 'effective technological protective measures' in PlayStation 3 firmware 3.55, iPhone hacker George Hotz, better known as 'Geohot,' has decided it's time to stand up to the tech giant.
'Right now, still legally, you can go to my Web site and download my jailbreak for your PS3,' Hotz said in an interview with G4TV's Attack of the Show last night. 'And what it lets you do is install home-brew applications.'
Sony won't be happy to hear that. The company said in its court filing that by offering the jailbreak to others, Hotz has 'trafficked in circumvention technology, products, services, methods, codes, software tools, [and] devices.' The company believes the jailbreak will 'enable use or playing of illegal copies of PlayStation 3 video games on the PS3 system.'
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That's a claim that Hotz denies.
'Actually, no,' Hotz said in response to a question asking if his jailbreak allows users to run pirated games on the console. 'The way piracy was previously done doesn't work in my jailbreak. And I made a specific effort while I was working on this to try and enable home-brewing without enabling things I don't support, like piracy.'
Hotz then turned his attention to Sony's claim that his jailbreak violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The far-reaching act currently allows mobile phone owners to jailbreak their devices without fear of recourse. However, it doesn't specifically mention other devices.
'I think the same precedent should apply,' Hotz said. 'If you can jailbreak one closed system, why can't you jailbreak another?'
Sony evidently fails to see the logic in Hotz's argument. The company asked the court to impound any circumvention technology Hotz and his team used to jailbreak the PlayStation 3. In addition, Sony has requested Hotz take down mention of the jailbreak from the Internet and not help anyone to further hack the device going forward.
Sony's decision to release a restraining order is just the latest move on the company's part to battle PlayStation 3 hackers that took issue with its announcement in March that it was removing the 'Other OS' feature from its console. Sony said at the time that its decision to remove 'Other OS,' which allows PlayStation 3 owners to run other operating systems on the console, was based on its desire to make the platform 'a more secure system.'
Subsequently, Sony found itself battling with hackers who continued to find ways around the console's security features. In August, hackers offered up a tool called PS Jailbreak that allowed users to play games on the PlayStation 3 from the device's hard drive or an external storage device. Sony was able to stop sales of the hack in Australia later that month.
But that failed to quell the unrest. The subject of Sony's restraining order against Hotz, firmware version 3.55, included a security update that patched holes hackers were exploiting.
For his part, Hotz doesn't believe that the act of circumventing the PlayStation 3's security features caused him to get hit with a restraining order. He said on Attack of the Show that he is feeling the wrath of Sony's legal team because he did one thing wrong: 'making Sony mad.'
Jailbreaking your PlayStation 3 (PS3) has never been easier, with Geohot’s newest jailbreak tool. All you need is an USB memory stick and any computer that can download some files and install them on the stick. StealthBravo posted these instructions on Pastie, and we haven’t found anything better, so use these steps and you should find success.
With geohot’s PS3 jailbreak, you /can’t/ play backup games or /pirated/ games or whatever you choose to call them. You can install packages with the provided installer. More packages will be coming from the PS3 jailbreak community in the coming weeks and months.
To Jailbreak PS3 on 3.55 only:
1. Plug a USB stick into your computer
2. Create a folder in the root of the USB stick called PS3
3. Create a folder inside the PS3 folder called UPDATE
4. Download
5. Unzip Jailbreak.zip to PS3UPDAT.PUP
6. Move PS3UPDAT.PUP to the directory UPDATE that you just created on the USB stick
7. Plug the USB stick into your PS3
8. Navigate to Settings Tab
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9. Choose System Update
10. Choose Update via Storage Media
11. It will say it found Version 3.55-jb
12. Choose OK
13. Accept Conditions and Install Update
14. After less than a minute, your PS3 will update, beep 4 times then shut down.
15. Power up your PS3 (You will have to do it on the console and not by the controller)
16. Your PS3 is now jailbroken!
There are no real useful packages for the PS3 jailbreak, yet, but here’s how you will install custom/homebrew packages on your PS3. This uses a test package that Geohot created, just to show that it works.
To Install Packages:
1. Plug your USB stick into your computer
2. Drop into the root of the USB stick
3. Plug your USB stick into your PS3
4. Navigate to the Game Tab
5. Choose Install Package Files
6. Select the test.pkg
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7. After it installs you will find the test package from geohot installed below the Install Package Files folder
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8. Wait for more packages to be created by the PS3 community