GeohotGotSued: Geohot’s New Blog, Insists Donation for Case Against Sony

The law will decide who is rigth or wrong. As Admin and Founder of GUAR FORUM an unlocker I support Geohot, but that is my choice.

Here Official Declaration
 geohot got sued: Note to Sony

Lets help those who helped us....
If Sony wins Apple will fight back will same reasons.... and go after all iPhone hacks.

Br
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Geohot has started a new official blog  ”GEOHOTGOT SUED” asking his fans to donate to proceed with the case against Sony for PS3 jailbreaking. He has discussed the entire case with his lawyer but as we know legal cases requres a lot of money, Geohot is trying to put the hardest hitting lawyers in the business against Sony.  For this he has requested funds from his fans.

Media, I need your help. This is the first time I have ever asked. Please, if you support this cause, help me out and spread the word.
I want, by the time this goes to trial, to have Sony facing some of the hardest hitting lawyers in the business.
Together, we can help fix the system
Donations here are for legal defense ONLY
I checked with my lawyers before setting this up
If you have another substantial way to donate aside from money, let me know

tl;dr
Sony is lame, and is suing me for hacking MY OWN PS3. Help me own them in court

Sony are bullies
Sony doesn’t care if what you did was legal, if they don’t like it, they sue. Sony tried to sue a guy for getting his AIBO to do non Sony approved tricks, making it apparent that they don’t really care about piracy, they care about control. In ( Sony v Bleem), Bleem was the winner on all counts, but the high cost of a legal defense shut them down. Fortunately, that suit helped set precedent on the legality of emulators. I would hate to lose this case due to resource starvation, and with the support of the masses, I won’t. Lets turn the bully back on itself. This case has the ability to set a huge precedent for consoles and all closed systems to come. The other two should be begging Sony to back off.

Sony sued the wrong guy
I am an advocate against mass piracy, do not distribute anyone’s copyrighted work but my own, do not take crap lying down, and am even pro DRM in a sense. For example, I believe Apple has every right to lock down their iPhone in the factory as much as they want, but once it’s paid for and mine, I have the right to unlock it, smash it, jailbreak it, look at it, and hack on it. Fortunately, the courts agree with me on this point.
My PS3 goal has been to provide users a legitimate path to homebrew, which by the standards of  all previous cases (or, in reverse), is 100% legal. Sony does not even try to allege piracy or copyright infringement in this case, they allege I did things like play “super mario world, an unauthorized game” on MY PS3. And access MY PS3 in an unauthorized way. Who are they to authorize what I do with my taxed and paid for property?
fail0verflow’s goal was even nobler than mine. They wanted to give you back a feature Sony illegally stole, Linux on your PS3. It’s shameful on Sony’s part that they are being sued at all. If you have a problem with pirates, sue them, don’t sue people who point out your shortcomings.

Why should I care about your personal legal troubles?
You shouldn’t. For example, if I was taken to court for sex crimes in Sweden, I would never ask for donations. But this case isn’t about me. Clearly I am not being sued because of something I have that Sony wants, I am being sued in order to send a message that Sony is not to be messed with. But if I(and all codefendants likewise) actually win this, we have the power to send a much stronger message back. That consumers have rights, and we aren’t afraid to stand up for them.

Why should I trust you? I just saw you trying to rap battle Sony
My attempts at humor aside, I do take this whole matter very seriously. Again, it’s not about me, I was on the verge of quitting this stuff last June, and I would hate to be the one who sets a reputation for hackers that all a company has to do is sue us and we back down. In fact, I want the opposite reputation set, that the more a company tries to abuse the legal system, the harder we rally back. I will be the first person in line on the launch date of the Xperia Play, and itching to get my hands on the Next GEOHOT Project.

Why did you wait until now to set this up?
I didn’t want to be trigger happy, and thought the suit might go away quickly. Also, I had to consult with my lawyers about how to do this. It’s been over a month, and it looks like this is going to be a drawn out case. I am in this for the long haul. I am very serious ethically when I take donations, for all iPhone work I only accepted after the fact, here after the fact is too late. Now I am pot committed so to say.

How much should I donate?
Put it this way, Sony has 5 lawyers, I have 2. I’d like to level the playing field, and really get some hard hitters in there. I have already racked up over 10k in legal bills; donate whatever you feel like. Leftover donations at the end of all this will be donated to the EFF.

What if I want to donate more than I feel comfortable sending through PayPal?
I’m excited! Email me, we’ll figure it out.

Why doesn’t the EFF fund this?
Ask them. They have offered to provide some legal help though, which is much appreciated.

Donate to help you, you’re the reason I can’t play Modern Warfare now…
No, I’m not. Kakaroto explains this really well here. I have never played PS3 onlineever. Frankly I’m amazed by the apparent ease with which these cheats were created, security 101, why is the security in the client anyway? I had no idea this would happen, and am in full support of the cheaters being permabanned from PSN.

I’m a poor college student, what can I do to help?
I feel you, don’t worry. Spread the word. Let people know how you feel about what Sony is doing. Let Sony know how you feel about what Sony is doing.

What if SCEA tries to settle?
Lets just say, I want the settlement terms to include OtherOS on all PS3s and an apology on the PlayStation blog for ever removing it. It’d be good PR for Sony too, lord knows they could use it. I’m also willing to accept a trade, a legit path to homebrew for knowledge of how to stop new firmwares from being decrypted.

Why isn’t SCEA trying to settle?
RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE..THEY POINTED OUT OUR SECURITY FLAWS..IM SO MADDDDDDDD .. WAHHHHHH
Check out the new blog
Old index page for archival purposes here
Contact Me
geohot … gmail

Update....

WARNING
George Hotz (Geohot) don’t have TWITTER account (all twitter geohot’s accounts is 100% FAKE) and don’t have FACEBOOK page (all facebook geohot’s accounts is 100% FAKE)

Donation mail is only this email: GEOHOT@GMAIL.COM

This is NOT JAILBREAK PAGE!!! THIS IS FAKE!!!

Page: http://www.greenpois0n.info/ is FAKE!!!
Page: http://www.iteckx.blogspot.com/ is FAKE!!!

CoveringWeb.com have FAKE accounts:
Page: http://www.geohot.us/ is FAKE!!!
Page: http://facebook.com/GeohotUS is FAKE
http://twitter.com/geohotus is FAKE
http://twitter.com/geohot_us is FAKE

Page: http://twitter.com/iOSHacker is FAKE
Page: http://www.greenpois0n.tk/ is FAKE
Page: http://www.iteckx.info/ is FAKE

UPDATE 6:
http://twitter.com/spirit_jb is FAKE
http://twitter.com/iZsh_dev is FAKE
http://twitter.com/iOSHacker is FAKE
http://twitter.com/maddenpatriots9 is FAKE
http://twitter.com/theshrimpfactor is FAKE
http://twitter.com/dan_sowden is FAKE
http://twitter.com/dsihub is FAKE
http://twitter.com/joshwrobel is FAKE
http://twitter.com/ClintHoward is FAKE
http://twitter.com/realkeyboardcat is FAKE
http://twitter.com/iC4lyfe is FAKE
http://twitter.com/Geohott1 is FAKE
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http://twitter.com/iDeving is FAKE
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http://twitter.com/Apple_MC is FAKE
http://twitter.com/jwbiphone is FAKE
http://twitter.com/pattyland91 is FAKE
http://twitter.com/Allyhax is FAKE
http://twitter.com/br0k3n_appl3 is FAKE
http://twitter.com/SpartanBr3ak is FAKE
http://twitter.com/gull1hack is FAKE
UPDATE 7:
http://www.mob2all.com is FAKE
http://twitter.com/mob2all
http://facebook.com/mob2all
http://spiritjb.org/ is FAKE
http://twitter.com/spirit_jb
http://www.facebook.com/Spiritjb is FAKE

UPDATE 8:
http://www.greenpois0n.biz is FAKE
http://www.facebook.com/pages/GreenPois0n/108687009196175 is FAKE
http://twitter.com/greenpois0nbiz is FAKE
UPDATE 9:
http://geohotiphoneunlock.blogspot.com/ is FAKE
http://twitter.com/geohots is FAKE


UPDATE 10:
http://twitter.com/Limera1n is FAKE
UPDATE 11
http://limera1n.cc is FAKE


UPDATE 12
http://twitter.com/Geohotzus is FAKE
http://twitter.com/Geohotz_us is FAKE
http://twitter.com/Geohot_JB is FAKE
http://twitter.com/Sn0wbreeze_dev is FAKE
UPDATE 13:
http://twitter.com/Geohot_ca is FAKE
http://twitter.com/Geohotca is FAKE
http://geohot.ca is FAKE
http://twitter.com/geohot__ is FAKE
http://twitter.com/GeoHotJB is FAKE


UPDATE 14:
www.greenpois0n.tk is FAKE
limesn0w.cc/ is FAKE
userlandjailbreak.blogspot.com/ is FAKE

More to be added

Monday, February 21, 2011

First round of donations is closed

Thank you so so much for all of your help, things are looking up money wise.
Expect to see a few more lawyers on my responses!
I have enough to cover my legal fees for the time being.
And in the absolute worst case scenario, we don't want Sony getting it :-P

For now, the best thing you can do is spread the word
Let people know how Sony treats customers
Let people know Sony would rather sue than be proactive and try to fix the problem
Let people know about laws like the DMCA which stifle innovation, and don't do anything to fix the problems they were created to solve

I will keep this blog updated as the case develops.