Federal judge Susan Illston ruled probable cause that Hotz does possess the code, videos, and step-by-step instructions on cracking the code on his machines.
"That's the breaks." - U.S District Judge Susan Illston
At least she's not making Hotz retrieve the code from anyone who he may have forwarded it to as Sony requested.
"It's information. It can't be retrieved. It's just not practical," Illston said. "What would they do, Xerox it and mail it back?"
Sony is now threatening to sue anyone who decides to post the code. Maybe they should sue themselves since they "mistakenly" tweeted the code themselves.
Sony has also taken measures to make sure any modded consoles do not make their way onto PSN. The two known workarounds for custom firmware PS3's are now being blocked from accessing the network.
Let's hope they don't implement their plans to place a serial code security system on future PS3 games. Traditionally this is for PC games to deter piracy of games. The plan is to begin placing long serial numbers inside the case that needs to be inputted into the console before it can even be played, Sony would allow this for up to 5 consoles at least.
No one wants to deal with the hassle to play a console. You're supposed to just rip off the wrap and begin gaming goodness. It's not like a PC where you have the keyboard in front of you and can be entered in seconds. If the serial numbers are at least 25 alpha-numeric characters long, that's an estimated 3 minutes of entering the code, another 3 minutes to have the game fully load, another 2 minutes to get a new game started, and another few minutes to make sure you have all your settings the way you like them. You just spent 10 - 15 minutes to begin playing where normally would take you 5!
Sony, get a life!
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