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.

Isn't this a win for other PS3 hackers? Geohot may not be allowed to continue his work but this settlement won't affect any others, which it would had Sony won.

When the next guy steps up and releases some PS3 hacking tools and Sony sues him/her they will have to start from scratch again...

Unless Sony felt they were going to lose the case, reaching a settlement doesn't make any sense. They could have gained some serious ground in the PS3 hacking war had they won the case. The hacking of PS3's would probably been made illegal and the whole PS3 hacking scene would had taken a serious hit. Now none of that happened.

steverhcp02 said:

Its not that simple. Its fairly obvious that given how vocal Hotz and those in his corner have been, i mean the kid made a rap video and posted it on the internet, blogged about it had Anonymous making attmpts to hack and destroy all things Sony, that the "hacker community" was outraged, ready to fight, this was a violation of rights etc. on and on.....yet when push came to shove, when little George was facing the music he caved. End of story.

Youre talking about a huge multinational corperation that set out to show this hacking will not go unnoticed, they didnt set out to ruin this kids life or destroy him like you are leading on.

It seems  alot of people here get lost in the epeen pissing match of all or none from these forums. Like MUGEN ( I think) said they never intended to bury this kid, settling out of court is a "win" for Sony because it shows how quickly the vocal hacking community will crumble when push comes to shove, when they cant hide behind their forums and youtube videos, when they have to face grown ups in court, the legal system and be held accountable for their actions.

Its a "win" for Sony because now we have public record of a hacker who "did no wrong" in a lot of peoples eyes settling out of court because he knows damn well he did wrong, Sony wins because the point was made regardless of litigation precedent, now they dont come off as a huge corperation ruining a kids life over a matter which could be portrayed as "the man" hustling a kid. They got what they wanted, sans bad publicity, Hotz settling is admitted guilt in the court of public opinion......

Just like those aqful lawsuits of record companies sueing people who illegally download music for obscene amounts of money to "make a point" like you want....its not smart, it rubs people the wrong way and Sony gt what they wanted, they wanted him to back off, send a message they are paying attention and they were very succesful without looking like a trolling huge corperation coming down on some punk.

Its fairly obvious why this is a one sided settlement actually the more i type about it, some people just will not admit it because of the parties involved though, sadly.

hahahahahahaha
really?

yes really, thats entirely what he was.

Same. Now we're gonna see some other fucked up company trying to act like what I bought is their property.

If you remember, APple tried to push off jailbreaking as illegal and they got screwed by that, so the sooner another retard company comes along and gets slammed by the courts for their shit business practices, the better.

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.

And from what I see we are still allowed to do whatever we want to our PS3s. Geo wasn't sued into oblivion as most of you guys were hoping for. Sony looks like it bowed to the pressures of Anon, as well as losing one of the better PS3 fans(he owned what, like 6 PS3s?) around. 

Well, you aren't exactly non-biased...

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/11/settlement-in-george-hotz-case/

What do you think it will mean on the long run?