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Sony Wins This Round: PS Jailbreak Banned in Australia

RSS by Christian Witka on 04 September 2010, 2155 views
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Recently, the pirates have unveiled the PS Jailbreak, a device capable of jailbreaking the PlayStation 3 so it would be able to run pirated games. Shortly after, Sony went to the courts to ban the importation and sales of the device in Australia, where it was created. After a few weeks of legal fisticuffs, Sony succeeded.

Not only are stores prohibited from selling the device, but they also have to hand all their current stock to the court. Sony won this round, but they didn't win the fight. The device is already all over the world, its code is available on the internet, and these legal procedures only made the PS Jailbreak illegal... not any of the pirate devices that may and will come after it.

Source: Kotaku

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13 Comments

rf40928
rf40928 (on 05 September 2010)

For the last few yrs you heard Sony fans boys brag about how there was no pirating of software ( I.E., It didn't hurt their software sales the way it did the Xbox 360, although ironically even with that said - The 360 sold 150 million more games over the life of the two consoles equating to 7 Billion dollars more for game developers.) For years people have given M$ a hard time over O/S and browser exploits; The truth is anything popular enough ( wide spread enough to be of some use and benefit to any group ) it will now get cracked for that group and then filtered to the rest of us.. Its really a shame and most all of us at one time or another have been part of it.. One could argue ( there will be argument on both sides of course ) that the billions lost in pirating is one reason why Software prices have never went down although more people own consoles ( thus more software is sold ), technology is mature, and income ratio should be better then ever.. then again pirating is still going strong. Its the same reason retail stores try and reduce "shrink" ( shop lifting ) it allows them to keep prices lower to those of us that actually do BUY...

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nandakoryaaa
nandakoryaaa (on 05 September 2010)

bwahaha

now return my OtherOS Sony, it's too late anyway, if you don't do it then I'll do it

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bad22
bad22 (on 05 September 2010)

Too Late Idiots
Now many new companies are making USB modchip

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jfonty
jfonty (on 05 September 2010)

Too late, people can backup any ps3 using a N900 already.

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Ping_ii
Ping_ii (on 04 September 2010)

LMAO! another fail.

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DuckmanR10
DuckmanR10 (on 04 September 2010)

Good. Now some new firmware, you know, to stop the ones already sold? Thanks.

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greenmedic88
greenmedic88 (on 04 September 2010)

I don't have a problem seeing anyone trying to take an opportunistic stab at profiting from piracy falling on their face. Naturally there will always be those who don't want to or can't figure out how to cobble together the hack themselves with a generic USB key and widely available code, but life's tough; watch a YouTube video, figure it out, or stick to buying used games cheap and renting if games are "too expensive."

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A Bad Clown
A Bad Clown (on 04 September 2010)

Too late, the codes are already on the internet lol.

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homer
homer (on 04 September 2010)

Piracy sucks. Internet pirates and somalian pirates are the lowest of all society.

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mjk45
mjk45 (on 04 September 2010)

@disolitude no it doesn't no more than other countries the reason it was made illegal is Australia is where it originated.

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disolitude
disolitude (on 04 September 2010)

Australia bans some weirdest shit... The bad news is that I can already buy this in Canada if I have 140 bucks to burn.

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sergiodaly
sergiodaly (on 04 September 2010)

well they must now release some firmware that disables this type of security breach!

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irtz
irtz (on 04 September 2010)

cool

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