Sony and Geohot reach a settlement

[kitler53]

Grimes said:

theprof00 said:

dsister said:

1. Geohot walked away without any problems m

2. Sony spent over a million dollars trying to prosecute him 

3. Sony lost a customer(who bought quite a few PS3s) 

yes, Sony definitely won 

According to the injunction, the injunction itself applies to every hacker that Geohotz has contact with.

I'm guessing that the subpeona for all those IPs, personal information, etc etc has something to do with the scope of that victory.

A private settlement can't make a ruling for anyone but the parties involved. Nor can they used any of collected data beyond the scope of what the courts allowed, which was only to establish location of alleged activity.

i texted a friend of mine who is a lawyer and he said that while it is "not likely" that this settlement can have a "precedential value" there are "exceptions".    Then he told me to research "judicata", "collateral estappel" and "judicial estoppel".  

I have no clue what that means but i'm going to look into it a bit. 

 

also, this thread is epic fun. xD