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Originally Posted by svenmullet Umm, Sony did *not* "win" against geohot. They settled out of court. Sony dropped the case in return for a gag order. No one knows exactly what happened except George Hotz and Sony. If I were to speculate, I'd guess it went something like this: "Mr. Hotz, whether you are right or wrong in this, we are going to continue pursuing legal action against you ad infinitum. We have billions of dollars to spend in court, you are a 21 year old unemployed kid. Every time your lawyer writes a letter, that is $250 added to your legal costs. We can make your lawyer write many, *many* letters. You can continue this for as long as you want, but you will *never* beat us in court. Here is our offer- you never speak another word about anything Sony related, you never divulge the methods you used to circumvent our NPDRM security, and you never divulge the details of this settlement offer. In exchange, we will clear all your legal costs, plus donate the sum of ten thousand dollars to a charity/organization of your choice. You have 24 hours to respond to this, or we will consider it null and void and will continue litigation. Sincerely, Sony" How would *you* respond to that?

You know what's odd is that Sony is in debt. Something like 6 billion loss was reported recently. So if Geohot came out of hiding then what is Sony going to do? Use their billions in debt to go after him? Not saying Sony couldn't go after him like before, but the company is sure bleeding. Certainly hurt their reputation.