PS3 jailbreaker ‘Geohot’ gets sued by Sony for “making them mad”

Consoles - Friday, January 14th, 2011

Here’s the backstory: hacker George “Geohot” Hotz, along with members of the fail0verflow team found an exploit that’ll let you bypass Sony’s security bypass feature on the PlayStation 3. Basically, the software kit that’ll let you do that will let enthusiasts create their own apps, load custom firmware and (unfortunately) run pirated ISO image files on the PS3 console without any problems. Yesterday, Sony Corporation filed lawsuits against Geohot and the team for making the jailbreak tools public (basically, Sony’s teed off about the fact that anyone who can follow a step-by-step can run pirated software on it now). Geohot recently appeared live on Attack of the Show, where he talks about the lawsuit and explains that they made the jailbreak for running unsigned homebrew apps and not for piracy purposes (or at least not specifically). Check out the video (after the break) for the whole story, including his take on why Sony sued him. (short answer: “for making Sony mad.”)