[Pirate]

The news over the Sony lawsuit is picking up heat over the internet the last several hours, and has gotten Professor Dave Touretzky, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University to challenge Sony's lawsuit and in response has mirrored Geohot's and fail0verflow's site ON the university's servers. The professor is well known for his previous challenges against big corporations (Scientology and DeCSS case). It will be very interesting to see Sony's reaction to this and how they will proceed.

To quote:

Mirror of GeoHot's PS3 Jailbreak



January 11, 2011:

Our friends at Sony are having another bad day: i.e., doing something breathtakingly stupid, presumably because they don't know any better. This time they're suing George Hotz for publishing PS3 jailbreak information, as reported by EnGadget, Attack of the Fan Boy, and inevitably, Slashdot. Hotz's jailbreak allows PS3 owners to run the software of their choice on a machine they have legally purchased. His site is geohot.com.

Free speech (and free computing) rights exist only for those determined to exercise them. Trying to suppress those rights in the Internet age is like spitting in the wind.

We will help our friends at Sony understand this by mirroring the geohot jailbreak files at Carnegie Mellon.

GeoHot Mirror



Click here for usage instructions.

Note to Sony lawyers: no doubt you're eager to rack up another billable hour by sending legal threats to me and my university. Before you go down that unhappy road, check out what happened the last time a large corporation tried to stop the mirroring of technical information here: The Gallery of CSS Descramblers. Have you learned anything in ten years

David S. Touretzky Research Professor of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213

What do you guys think of this? Does Sony Lawsuit have a valid fighting ground in court? Could this lawsuit be a total fake? Let us know VIA reply below.

[VIA PSX-Scene and Professors Site]

[NelsonPt]

sony forget it you lost!!!

[sweetdick]

In Soviet Russia, PS3 sues Sony.

[bayboy80]

sony will never win **** off sony :thefinger::aetsch:

[YungClipze]

I bet sony wasn't expecting that Lol xD

[killa5k7]

Good news but yet another thread to give the finger to Sony.

[PepDawg24]

this is completely awesome

[advocatusdiaboli]

Originally Posted by killa5k7 Good news but yet another thread to give the finger to Sony.

Though it’s worshipable by fanboys, this is a piece of editorial news and highly relevant for this site and its members; the PS3 enthusiast and collaborators of free speech and computing.

[supa_sick]

i knew this would happen.. not the guy doing it but some one going against sony... i love this professor im one of your fans now lol

[lisapower]

AMAZING!

Power to the People & not to the big corperations!

cheers