Carnegie Mellon Professor Challenges Sony, Mirrors Geohot's Site

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Dave Touretzky, a Research Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University, has challenged Sony's legal standing in the case against PS3 hackers and mirrored Geohot's site on the university's servers.

Here is a working mirror of Geohot.com with all the files and the private key, hosted by Carnegie Mellon's servers.

On top of that, there is also a mirror of Team failoverflow's github project page.

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 and Attack of the Fan Boy. 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

This guy has successfully fought Scientology before, and was involved in the DeCSS case!
He's well known in freedom of information circles!

#MIRROR 1: (Carnegie Mellon) -> keys open doors

#MIRROR 2: just to provide some more redundancy: -> keys open doors

Thanks to squarepusher2 for the tip!

[x3angel]

and with that we say...


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[ChocoboX]

Geohot is becoming a legend.

[mstrkrft]

Geohot is going to be even more famous after Sony loses this.

[dave11674]

oh yeah some1 with balls
i hope they do try it with htis guy and he fooks them up hehehe

sony can suck balls

geohotz may of published their keys n made tools ect

but his belief in piract was 100% NONE

his firmware did not allow pirated games to be run
sony are just trying to pull anythgin out their asses now dumb asses

and if it wasnt him the next man would do it
cos i know for sure if i was capable of it id of most certainly done it too heheh

good luck hotz n fail in court

dave

[Shrek]

I am pretty worried by this. I hope Geo and FOF stay safe and they are not in any real danger of being charged.

I'm sure they had themselves covered before they released anything.

[beavisdave]

if geohot does this right i'm fairly certain not only will he win his case but it might make it so we are legally allowed to hack our game systems we own and maybe it will lead to open source consoles one can dream right lol

[whitezombie2000]

That's just awesome, I hope more things like this happen. I think $ony will lose if this even makes it to a trial.

[Arnie753]

I like that guy..!!!

[aN0r]

fantastic Guy @ this university

1+ for u man. Respect.