Yesterday the legal wrangle between Sony and infamous hacker George “Geohot” Hotz came to an abrupt end, with the two parties electing to settle. Little was revealed about the settlement, although it was made known that Hotz was to remove all reference to hacking the PS3 from his blog, and hand over various hard drives and consoles.
Gamespot last night published details regarding the settlement.
The court papers prohibit Hotz from doing the following:
–“Reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling any portion of [a] Sony Product.”
–“Using any tools to bypass, disable, or circumvent any encryption, security, or authentication mechanism in [a] Sony Product.”
–“Using any hardware or software to cause the Sony Product to accept or use unauthorized, illegal or pirated software or hardware.”
–“Exploiting any Sony Product to design, develop, update or distribute unauthorized software or hardware for use with [a] Sony Product.”
As expected, Hotz is not allowed to circumvent any of Sony’s security measures, including “any code, device, information, encryption or key” that relates to “any confidential or proprietary information” of Sony’s.
If Hotz breaks the terms of the settlement, he will have to pay a $10,000 fine, per violation.
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