Where was I again on the PS3 hacked? Oh wait it was Barbara Streisand's pad

I dunno where my brain was. But if you remember, last December, a group of hackers called Fail0verflow managed to hack the PS3. Why? Because long ago, famous iPhone jailbreaker George Hotz exploited a hack through the PS3's Other OS option, forcing Sony to remove it for good.

But what happened recently was that George Hotz(Sometimes referred to as Geohot) decided to post the entire Firmware release itself(Which we aren't providing, thank you very much). The end result? The PS3 has been compromised and Sony got pissed off so much they sued him under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and won a temporary restraining order against him.

Ironically, their rival Microsoft decided to send George Hotz a free Windows Phone for his trouble

But as for Sony, they're now going after ANYONE with anything to do with the PS3 hack, going through sites like Google and Twitter. Speaking of Twitter...

Kevin Butler, Sony's fictional spokesman and vice president of several fake departments who appears frequently in PlayStation 3 commercials, retweeted the console's jailbreak code last night after apparently believing that it was a reference to the board game, "Battleship."

"Lemme guess, you sank my battleship?" read the tweet on @TheKevinButler. It was followed by the complete code, which had been tweeted to Sony's account by user @exiva. The user, whose name is Travis La Marr, according to his Twitter page, followed the code with a message to Sony: "come at me."

After realizing its mistake, Sony removed the tweet from Kevin Butler's Twitter feed. The company did not mention its error and instead went back to cracking jokes about the PlayStation 3, as it normally does in that Twitter account. However, people did capture screenshots before Sony removed the tweet.


Oops. Looks like Kevin Butler screwed up.

But it's not just lawsuits. Rumor has it that Sony may end up going the serial input route for its future PS3 games

The rumored scheme would require gamers to input a serial number like PC CD-keys of old and verify them with Sony's authentication servers. The codes would allow five activations, sharply limiting each game's resale value.

While Sony certainly has the right to do what it can to limit piracy and protect its intellectual property, saddling legitimate consumers with a pain-in-the-ass code input that also restricts the end-user's ability to give away or resell their games is pretty *** unfriendly to gamers.

Sony knows how to make the PS3 backwards compatible, even going beyond what the PC did.

Sony is still in a world of hurt everyone. And personally, I blame this all on Nintendo. If it weren't for Nintendo, no one would have to hack the Playstation 3 and Sony would not have gotten butthurt. I dunno where Nintendo lands in all this, but I blame them because I'm a bias a-hole.

Come on Sony. Direct your lawsuits to Nintendo for their success. See how far you can go.

You can read more info at

Kotaku link 1
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TechRadar
CNet
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