Sony's request for a Temporary Restraining Order granted

This is not good news for the PS3 scene. The judge in the case has granted Sony's request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Geohot and the other defendants. According to court documents, it says that Sony has sufficient cause for the TRO to be granted. Therefore, they are restricted from offering, creating, posting, marketing (and so on) of any hacks.

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[Update] Geohot's lawyers move for dismissal

Geohot's Lawyers have moved for a dismissal of Sony's case against him.  They have cited a lack of jurisdiction in California.  As of right now, Sony has not met the requirements to keep this case in California.  It would appear so that the judge will likely dismiss the case.  Updates will be posted here on our forum news.  This can be downloaded in our forums.  Sony's lawyers have also filed a response which is also available in our forums as well.  Leave your comments below.

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[UPDATE] Judge has doubts, Sony responds!

For those of you like us who have been following Geohot and his legal trouble against Sony, we have more update. Sony wants the case to be reviewed in California while Geohot and his lawyers are pushing to move this case to New Jersey, where Geohot resides. Sony has argued that the so called "hack" that was released by Geohot was distributed via Twitter and Youtube, which are both based in California, thus the case should continue. Geohot has updated his site with a Supplemental TRO. This outlines the various reasons why geohot can still be tried within the California jurisdiction.

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Geohot speaks live on G4

Today, 1/13/2011, Geohot spoke Live on G4 at 7pm EST. He speaks regarding the lawsuit that Sony has issued upon him. The questions he has is the same as what all of us is wondering. For example, a federal court in the US has ruled that jailbreaking the Iphone is legal, but does this apply to the PS3 as well? And straight from the video.

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Geohot released homebrew signing tools

Geohot is quick! As promised, here are the homebrew signing tools that will get homebrew applications to work on the custom firmware v3.55 that was released by him yesterday.

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Geohot released v3.55 jailbreak. Sony says "What?!"

Let the cat and mouse game resume! Developer geohot has released firmware v3.55 jailbreak. Keep in mind, this is for homebrew applications, so you will not be able to run your pirated PS3 games (or games that you own but have ripped!) ;). Also, older homebrew applications (programmed for firmware v3.41 and lower) will not work and will need to be signed to work on v3.55 jailbreak but don't worry, there are new tools coming that will let you sign older homebrew so that it will boot on v3.55.

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PS3 firmware v3.55 now does homebrew (video)

I woke up this morning to find this great news from developer geohot. In the video below, geohot demonstrate a small piece of homebrew running on his PS3--which has v3.55 firmware installed.

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Proof-of-Concept "Hello World" SELF released by Geohot

Geohot has released his proof-of-concept "Hello World" SELF file for debug PS3 units. This SELF file shows that signed ELF files can run on firmware v3.55.

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PS3 Make_Self tool released by Geohot

Here's a Make_Self tool released by Geohot--use it to sign ELF files. Once an ELF is signed, it becomes a SELF file, which then becomes an EBOOT.BIN file through renaming.

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