German Police Raid House Of Sony PS3 Jailbreaker

German police have raided the home of a known PS3 hacker to seize his computers and PlayStation 3 consoles, in a move to aid Sony gathering evidence in its legal battle against PS3 hackers.
According to a post on PSX Scene, German police officials accompanied by a representative from Sony raided the home of PS3 hacker 'graf_chokolo'.
The officials said that the computing tools were being seized for providing evidence in an upcoming court battle.
However, just hours after Sony raided his home, the hacker posted his life's work detailing methods of how to jailbreak a PS3 and install third party Linux software, for anyone to jailbreak the consoles.

“Guys, i don’t joke, it’s serious. And to prove it, i kept my word and uploaded all my HV reversing stuff. Upload it everywhere so SONY couldn’t remove it easily. Grab it guys, it contains lots of knowledge about HV and HV procs,” he said in a post on PSX Scene.
Fellow PS3 users and hackers were somewhat perturbed by the developments. One contributer on the psx-scene forum summed up the feelings of many, saying, "You'd think police would have more to do than raid a computer programmers house and steal his PCs, like you know, catch real criminals?"

Geohot Closed First Donations Round

Geohot has just publish a new post on his new blog "Geohot Got Sued" to thank his fans who gave him a donation to support him against Sony.

For who don't know, Geohot got sued by Sony after he has successfully jailbroke PS3, Sony claims that Geohot broke the law and Sony rights by jailbreaking PS3. Two days ago Geohot started to ask his fans to support him to continue the legal battle with Sony.

“Thank you so so much for all of your help, things are looking up money wise.
Expect to see a few more lawyers on my responses!
I have enough to cover my legal fees for the time being.
And in the absolute worst case scenario, we don’t want Sony getting it :-P

For now, the best thing you can do is spread the word
Let people know how Sony treats customers
Let people know Sony would rather sue than be proactive and try to fix the problem
Let people know about laws like the DMCA which stifle innovation, and don’t do anything to fix the problems they were created to solve”

Geohot has announced that he has finished the first round, which means that it is possible that there will be a second round, Geohot didn't announce the exact amount he has raised, but it's obviously enough to cushion his legal expenses for the time being.

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Sony Banning Jailbroken PlayStation 3 [Warning]

You should pay attention to this warning if you own PS3 (PlayStation 3), few weeks ago we reported you about the exploits which has been discovered by Geohot on PS3 (PlayStation 3). Sony has responded to Geohot by prosecution and now Sony intend to punish its users who have jailbroke their PS3s.

Official statement form Sony:

Consumers using circumvention devices or running unauthorized or pirated software will have access to the PlayStation Network and access to Qriocity services through PlayStation 3 system terminated permanently.

Sony will ban anyone use jailbroken PS3 from PSN. Sony is also sending some warning emails to them

A circumvention device and/or unauthorized or pirated software currently resides on your PlayStation(R)3 system.

Immediately cease use and remove all circumvention devices and delete all unauthorized or pirated software from your PlayStation(R)3 system. Failure to do so will result in termination of your access to PlayStation(R) Network and access to Qriocity(TM) services through your PlayStation(R)3 system.

[Breaking] GreenPois0n 4.2.1 Untethered Released

Well it just happened! Thousands of people have been waiting for this moment. That’s right! greenpois0n RC5 is now available! Many people know that there is a tethered jailbreak available by the current redsn0w, but people want to be able to reboot their device! So, pod2g & posixninja have been working for the past 2 weeks since MuscleNerd challenged posixninja on twitter to the first to get an untethered jailbreak for 4.2.1 out there. and its been teased the past few days on the team’s twitter.

As of right now, it is only for Mac.  Linux and Windows coming soon.

Go download now HERE.

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