Geohot Closes First Round of Donations - Legal Fees Covered

Published on 02-21-2011 03:09 PM

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The other day, we reported on geohot's request to the community to help his legal cause with donations. With the help of some of our very own members, along with many other generous people, geohot has received the amount of donations he was hoping for. He has temporarily closed donations for the time being, as his legal bills are covered for now. In his public statement on Geohot.com, he states "Expect to see a few more lawyers on my responses!" It's refreshing to see that his legal battle is starting to become more of a fair fight, all thanks to the community's generous donations.

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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

Source: Geohot.com

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Turkish-PSG - 02-21-2011, 03:26 PM
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If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

HarleyWooD - 02-21-2011, 03:34 PM
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if u "want" to pay for something i believe there is something wrong with you fail troll

bender6681-PSG - 02-21-2011, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Turkish

If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

Why does everyone seem to think that this is all about piracy. Its not. I have my system modded and own every game that is on my hard drive. The fact that he has closed the doors on donations shows that people that mod their systems do not mind paying for things.

Antoniogra7-PSG - 02-21-2011, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Turkish

If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

There are not only pirates over here.

Darkrift1989-PSG - 02-21-2011, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Turkish

If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

Who knows could be just a few rich eccentrics who just want to watch the world burn

Bangz - 02-21-2011, 03:35 PM
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We got your back Geo!

And Turk you are a dieing breed. So give it up.

gamer2020 - 02-21-2011, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Turkish

If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

lol you are such a loser...trying to make a dent on the world lmao...he recieved $500,000 from dontations on his iphone jailbreak, and he dontated back to the EFF! stop bending over for sony...sony is the pioneer of piracy.....dual tape deck recorders, cd burners, dual dvd recorders etc. what do you think is the purpose of these units, to record you own music or videos???

lambo-PSG - 02-21-2011, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by ;

If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

Read more: PSGroove.com - Geohot Closes First Round of Donations - Legal Fees Covered http://psgroove.com/content.php?794-...#ixzz1Ed0egn5s

screw you Turkish I donated to geohot and like thousands of other people I will again if he needs it, I have modded MY PS3 with cfw and im not a pirate, I own every game I have backed up.

jamariob - 02-21-2011, 03:41 PM
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if geohot sued for what he did than ill get death penalty because i have about 700+ eur,jp,usa ps3 piated games not psn................hahahahahahaa

im a pirate argggggghh

grandy - 02-21-2011, 03:44 PM
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I personally think the fact that geohot closed the donations after he received enough support, demonstrates he has upstanding character. He could have just left the donations open forever, but he only took what he needed. He's a decent guy and if people are willing to donate, that's their own choice. If you don't want to donate, no one's forcing you to.

jamariob - 02-21-2011, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by grandy

I personally think the fact that geohot closed the donations after he received enough support, demonstrates he has upstanding character. He could have just left the donations open forever, but he only took what he needed. He's a decent guy and if people are willing to donate, that's their own choice. If you don't want to donate, no one's forcing you to.

cool story bro ............................

One2thr456svn - 02-21-2011, 03:46 PM
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Well now that the playing field is just about even hopefully he can stick it to them, as a community we all have his back on this. forget the haters and nay sayers it dose not take much to sit and complain but it takes some balls to do something so give em hell Geo

So true Grandy. stand up guy he is.....

reloaded231-PSG - 02-21-2011, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Turkish

If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

turkish pull your head out of your ass and take a look at whats going on he is not fighting for pirates you ass face geohot is fighting to send a message to sony that what they are doing is not right and its not i have bought my ps3 with intent of useing it as a backup computer and so have most of my other friends that have bought it and now sony is trying to do what ever they want with the ps3 if sony wants to remove the music play back that you put your mp3's on they will and can now that you said YES SONY **** ME HARD IN THE ASS when you said yes to the new online TOS i hope sony sends out a update to the systems and when its wrighting to the flash you turn it off cause you dont know its updateing and yes they can do that now that you said YES to the new online TOS and it ****s your system and when you call them they say thanks for letting us **** you have a good day and hang up on you with out a reach around and yeah cause you have your head so FAR up your own ASS TOS=Terms Of Service

gamer2020 - 02-21-2011, 03:47 PM
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the purpose of jailbreaks and backup managers is to keep your games on a hard drive and run them off a hard drive, it saves your expensive bluray discs and surely saves your bluray drive which it does not last very long...ask sony??? sony wants to charge you $200 to fix a bluray drive which they made faulty in the first place!

VirusHunter - 02-21-2011, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Turkish

If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

You're right. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. Thankfully, pirates aren't the people who donated money to cover his legal fees. Those people were members of the hacking and homebrew community, people who believe that they have the right to do whatever they want with hardware they legally paid for.

Also, the fact that the community raised over $10,000 to cover his legal fees in less than a week...I think that shows just how far people are willing to go in order to fight for what they think is right. The fact that Geohot stopped taking donations means that he's got more than enough money, and the community is ready to reinforce him should he need any more.

Piracy? Yeah, that's wrong. No doubt about it. But when a man can't modify his property any way he sees fit, then things have to change.

Just think, what if people weren't allowed to make their own custom computers? What if you weren't allowed to buy and install an extra hard drive or video card?

gamer2020 - 02-21-2011, 03:54 PM
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i see is it like this: we aint helping geohot out of nothing, its more like geohot invited us to join the force and thru him we will all fight this battle, i feel like im really fighting now by donating.....its not just geohot anymore, this is about a whole comunity thats offended by sony calling us pirates....judging without proof!!! **** you sony, win or lose in the court field.....you still lost!!!

phoenixtamarisk - 02-21-2011, 03:55 PM
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I wish people wouldn’t assume everyone is a pirate or for piracy. This suit isn’t for piracy, it for console rights. I donated and I don’t own a PS3, but the day if I ever decide to I would like to do to it as I please. Why should I spend hundreds of dollars on a system, and still technically not own it. That doesn’t make any since. It’s like Microsoft banning people and crippling the 360 for hacking it, yet you paid all that money for it. I hoping for a win from Geohot and giving us the right to do with our systems as we please.

icdmize-PSG - 02-21-2011, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Turkish

If pirates won't pay for games, why would they pay for his legal fees?

this is actually good news for Sony and their lawyers. Him reaching out to the community for support shows that he is running out of money to pay for his legal team.

Even hackers and pirates won't help him for long. Pirates don't want to pay for anything. All Sony has to do is wait it out for a little while longer and he'll exhaust all of his resources.

Obviously you realize he's fighting for our freedom as a consumer. What if your new car decided to drive itself back to the factory becuase Toyota wanted it to? Crap like that is at stake for real.

gamer2020 - 02-21-2011, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by phoenixtamarisk

I wish people wouldn’t assume everyone is a pirate or for piracy. This suit isn’t for piracy, it for console rights. I donated and I don’t own a PS3, but the day if I ever decide to I would like to do to it as I please. Why should I spend hundreds of dollars on a system, and still technically not own it. That doesn’t make any since. It’s like Microsoft banning people and crippling the 360 for hacking it, yet you paid all that money for it. I hoping for a win from Geohot and giving us the right to do with our systems as we please.

nothing you buy from sony is yours read here:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/digi...218-1aypm.html

gamer2020 - 02-21-2011, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by icdmize

Obviously you realize he's fighting for our freedom as a consumer. What if your new car decided to drive itself back to the factory becuase Toyota wanted it to? Crap like that is at stake for real.

what if the car stopped working because toyota didnt approve the way you are driving it?