SCEA vs. Zoomba - The Saga Continues

[The Central Scrutinizer]

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

or six months ago anyway...

Sony Computer Entertainment America filed a lawsuit (SCEA starts court action against USA PSJailbreak!) against Zoomba, the alleged company behind the original PS Jailbreak dongle, and several resellers. Now, after six months with no movement on the case, new court documents have been filed.

SCEA is submitting its own statement since none of the defendants have appeared in this action.

The Court has entered a Preliminary Injunction. Since that time, counsel for SCEA has conducted extensive third party discovery and has been engaged in settlement discussions with certain of the defendants. Thus far, defendants Tom Nooker, individually and doing business as buyps3jailbreak and Thanh Nguyen, individually and doing business as USATechCity, Ltd. have entered into settlement agreements with
SCEA and have agreed to entry of consent judgments and permanent injunctions. SCEA will be filing those documents with the Court shortly. SCEA is currently awaiting responses from the other defendants regarding settlement.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that in the event that Defendant violates this Judgment or assists others to do so, Defendant shall pay to SCEA $5,000 as liquidated damages per violation of this Judgment no later than forty-five (45) days from the date on which SCEA notifies Defendant of the violation. Such liquidated damages shall be an optional alternative to demonstrating actual damages. This optional alternative may be elected in SCEA's sole discretion. Both liquidated damages and actual damages are supplemental to obtaining equitable relief to which SCEA may be entitled as a result of Defendant's violation.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that this Court shall retain jurisdiction for the purpose of making any further orders necessary or proper for the construction or modification of this Judgment or the Settlement Agreement and Release, the enforcement thereof, or the punishment of any violations thereof.

The latest court documents in their entirety are attached for further reading.

A hearing date has been set for April 21st, which makes one wonder if Sony has finally managed to track down the individual(s) behind Zoomba and PS Jailbreak.

As usual, PSX-SCENE will keep you updated on the case as it develops.

[clik.MEK]

so $ony drops the case on geohot and the guys from fail0verflow. Now they do go hard after graf, two times taking his stuff.... everybody was wondering why they go after him, as his linux/reversing had nothing to do with piracy at all. Now they actually go after the inventors of the original jb, which does nothing but piracy... yea, does make sense

[uZer]

I think that means- time to sell Play$hit 3 and by XBOX360...

[R_F_O_$]

Looks like $ony's Jedi mind tricks are working in the court again

[garyopa]

so $ony drops the case on geohot and the guys from fail0verflow. Now they do go hard after graf, two times taking his stuff.... everybody was wondering why they go after him, as his linux/reversing had nothing to do with piracy at all. Now they actually go after the inventors of the original jb, which does nothing but piracy... yea, does make sense

Nope, PSJAILBREAK was their original target, see this thread:

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/scea-...ilbreak-65284/ (SCEA starts court action against USA PSJailbreak!)

[uZer]

And seriously now - do you think there will be no more new cfw?

[casual]

well fuk em, they were trying to sell their method.

[clik.MEK]

Nope, PSJAILBREAK was their original target, see this thread:

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/scea-...ilbreak-65284/ (SCEA starts court action against USA PSJailbreak!)

yea I know, should have written "Now they actually go after the inventors of the original jb again". Thanks for pointing that out. Looking at the whole psjailbreak-story from back then, I have to say it was a huge rip-off. And seeing the recent events in contrast to that makes it even worse. TBH I think its better if $ony goes after a group who wanted $150 for a jailbreak/piracy than seeing them going after young, talented individuals like geohot and graf.

[garyopa]

yea I know, should have written "Now they actually go after the inventors of the original jb again". Thanks for pointing that out. Looking at the whole psjailbreak-story from back then, I have to say it was a huge rip-off. And seeing the recent events in contrast to that makes it even worse. TBH I think its better if $ony goes after a group who wanted $150 for a jailbreak/piracy than seeing them going after young, talented individuals like geohot and graf.

My believe is they only really targeted the others to get information on the first, these dongle designers didn't just appear with code out of thin air, like a magic pipe dream, they had to have a talented person or people giving them the info for a price.

Sony been hunting for that information all this time, like a hound dog that will not give up the trail of blood or scent.

Rumor is maybe they now know 'who and were or what' Zoomba really is, due to recent events in the other cases. -- But that is pure 100% my own personal rumor.

[DeadPixel99]

Well im sick of hiding. The original source for all the information that was released was by me, come on Sony, i have the money and means to fight you, after a month you will be sucking my **** and walking my dog.