Sony likely to force removal of tools from internet.
Sony will likely force the PlayStation 3 hackers to stop distributing the tools they created and released online it alleges are directly responsible for enabling piracy – at least temporarily.
It’s bad news for George Hotz, aka Geohot, who led a group of high-profile hackers that successfully circumvented Sony’s security measures designed to prevent gamers from running unofficial programs on the PS3.
According to legal documents published by Hotz on his blog, Sony believes the hackers have infringed areas of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) in obtaining the encryption and decryption keys of the console without authorisation, and that the defendants are directly responsible for enabling piracy via the tools they created and released online. A comprehensive round-up of the allegations can be found on Digital Foundry.