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Donate to Help Geohot Fight Sony

Donate to Help Geohot Fight Sony

Posted February 20, 2011 at 2:42am by iClarified
Geohot has set up a new blog and is asking for help in his legal battle with Sony.

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


Sony is suing Geohot and fail0verflow for jailbreaking the PS3 console. This is a case that could have huge ramifications for consumer rights. The EFF says, "Sony's core arguments — that it can silence speech that reveals security flaws using the DMCA and that the mere fact of a terms of use somewhere gives a company permanent and total control over what you do with a device under pain of criminal punishment — are both sweeping and frightening, and not just for gamers and computer researchers. Frankly, it's not what we expect from any company that cares about its customers, and we bet it's not what those customers expect, either."

The Library of Congress Copyright Office has ruled that smartphone jailbreaking was legal but they have not as of yet made the same ruling for game consoles. Geohot has helped many in the iPhone community with his jailbreaks. We urge you to donate towards the cause. You can read more details about this on http://www.geohot.com or at his new "Geohot Got Sued" blog.

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Virtual-Oz
Virtual-Oz - February 21, 2011 at 11:19pm
Hey, we can boycott $ony's Facebook page if enough people REPORT THIS PAGE and select CONTAINS HATE SPEECH OR ATTACKS INDIVIDUAL (which is true!) - finally select TARGETS ME OR A FRIEND. That should give a great surprise! :D
Unknown
Unknown - February 21, 2011 at 9:21pm
Sony is big corp should act like a big corp not a childish corp. Also remember the word APPRECIATATION!!!! Money dont mean anything ok sony you should know without us you guy not even here! Please build up a better server and system security so person like geohot can't do anything. You know how many people outsmart geohot,many. Most important please act like a big corp and put confident in ur product so we the consumer do the same too. Not act like baby cry and whining all the time.
janghor
janghor - February 21, 2011 at 7:37am
Everyone, who has used the service of Gehot has to help him with donation . Even if 5 USD will be donate to him, is good. And at least, Sony has no chance in the court case against Gehot. The reason is very simple : The legal owner of a sony playstation has the right to change the software of his legal owned playstation for his specific use . As long he is not selling officially for commerce matters to a third party .
Maharaja
Maharaja - February 21, 2011 at 6:45am
Dude... Go back to work at SONY... your iP Match... Sit tight...
ea577e5
ea577e5 - February 21, 2011 at 10:09am
Just so you know you made me donate 5 bucks to Geohot
unknown
unknown - February 22, 2011 at 1:15am
Geohot jail bait u need to go geohot.com and read what geohot say. let me put this way, Geohot say all the money leftover from the fight will donate to the EFF. EFF is a similiary/different to wikileak where it leak all the Corp secret.
HondaCBRice
HondaCBRice - February 20, 2011 at 10:22pm
Donate here !!! Good Luck
Just game
Just game - February 20, 2011 at 8:57pm
Geohot stoped to do iPhone jailbreak and come back because he thought he is the only one who can do it now with ps3 listen Geohot go and find proper job and bring some useful stuf for this planet not this ps3 jailbreak way you don't make some perfect console on your own and allow people to do what they want to do
pad
pad - February 20, 2011 at 5:16pm
perhaps they are paid by Sony?...
Jeremy
Jeremy - February 20, 2011 at 5:04pm
Man someone with deep pockets and a competition with sony lime MICROSOFT *wink wink* should step in and allow geohot to use their corporate lawyers to do battle and help him out. They supposedly jumped at the chance to give him a phone to see what could be done with it. why not help him shut up sony?
d42be11
d42be11 - February 20, 2011 at 4:47pm
HEY SONY! i just kicked my playstation 3 and broke the side panel... Does that mean i destroyed "your property" or mine??? Please advise your legal team to get in touch with me. GeoHot i sent $500 PS: 234000 twitter followers... if everyone donates $1 do the math.
pad
pad - February 20, 2011 at 5:13pm
I did the same: $ 500 went to Geohot. Come on guys, if we dont fight Sony now, we never will have a chance again to live todays freedom. Cant someone organize a boycott of Sony products voa Facebook. See the Nestle case? By the way, $ 5 is just 2 double Expressos at Starbucks, so?
indu
indu - February 20, 2011 at 3:23pm
We are with u Geo Hot .. one $100 from me . Thanx for all the iphone unlocks u got us till now . Hats off
LIOX30
LIOX30 - February 20, 2011 at 1:56pm
Totally agree and already did my $10
Zeljko
Zeljko - February 20, 2011 at 3:14pm
That`s a spirit... I agree and definitly will donate...
AoS_HJ
AoS_HJ - February 20, 2011 at 1:01pm
A lot of negative complaints here whining that Geohot ruined their game! Geohot has just given people the ability to use the console they paid for the way they want to use it. Not the way Sony want you to use it. Geohot has opened the door, what people do once they've walked through the door (pirating games, hacking games) is not Geohots fault or responsibility. $20 from me and good luck killing Goliath
sith
sith - February 20, 2011 at 2:08pm
Agree 100% geohot is the man! will donate!, share!
Oscar
Oscar - February 20, 2011 at 5:54pm
Lets boycot all sony products until they dicline charge to geo
smate333
smate333 - February 20, 2011 at 11:42am
$5 to geohot, not because I like him or not, but because I believe Sony is going to open pandora's box if they win, think about it! What's next? In the past until now, you bought something it was yours -100%- I like that concept, I believe in respecting ownership of property. Sony needs to target bootleggers, jailbreaking might be a path to provide access for them, but so is a gun store by selling guns and bullets to people, still not everybody goes Laughner or Manson on others... Screw Sony, I'm not buying anything knowingly branded Sony.
Mauurenaa
Mauurenaa - February 20, 2011 at 10:59am
Im totally with you. One thing is you can do wherever the f*ck you want with you system, but f*cking with everybody else console and ruined the fun is not cool at all.
Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear - February 20, 2011 at 8:25am
To all the peep that keep complaining about jailbreak and unclock for iPhone all the time, why don't you all consider give a little contribution back to help out the people whom brought you the freedom to your iPhone. Without them and geohot, you won't have the current jailbreak for all iDevice. Just imagine if he would have lost the case. What would happen to your iDevice now? And whom gonna be in control of your idevice? You or the manufacture
iTec
iTec - February 20, 2011 at 6:09am
oO omfg, Unlock of iPhone 4 Make NOT! GeoHot! Musclenerd from iPhone_dev Release this!
yank
yank - February 20, 2011 at 4:55am
Sony Sucks....
myname
myname - February 20, 2011 at 3:54am
some toys are overpriced anyway, thats my money, once its mine i can do whatever i want with it.
Sunil
Sunil - February 20, 2011 at 3:17am
Not "our benefit" but instead their benefit..... and shouldnot happen.Prevent it at any cost...
Shteef
Shteef - February 20, 2011 at 3:49am
One of the main benefits of the EULA is to ensure an income for software developers both large and small. I 100% garantee that every single person who donates to Geohot uses pirated movies,music and software.
sith
sith - February 20, 2011 at 2:43pm
"The origin of copyright law in most European countries lies in efforts by the church and governments to regulate and control printing, which was widely established in the 15th and 16th centuries". Hardly the oldest laws in the world, we live in a new age, one that has the possibility to transcend corporate value and become good. Good to the earth, good to each other, information shared for free for the betterment of society is the necessary revolution and holding on to old patterns because they are familiar is stupid. Home taping did not kill music it made it better, more viral, shared, most artists and software developers i know love for their work to be shared, enjoyed, acts like radiohead have reinvented the album release and that's what we need in the other dieing economies of physical shit. We are close and supporting geohot here is VERY important, he is a genius, not a criminal or a "Terrorist" sony should embrace him,it's out now, sony can't get it un-shared so why sue? bitterness? Look at their profits they're huge, and they're trying to get the legal right to protect them, their profits, we already pay a levy on digital media..what next? it's SCARY. Also check out Pioneer One, Great FREE donation supported tv show. Open your mind, change is inevitable.
matty
matty - February 20, 2011 at 3:10am
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