Die Details der Einigung zwischen GeoHot und Sony verbieten es GeoHot jemals wieder Sony-Produkte zu hacken oder die Lizenzvereinbarungen zu verletzen auch wenn er sie nicht gelesen hat. Ferner darf er auch nicht anderen helfen oder sie dazu verleiten, die Produkte zu hacken. Verletzungen der Vereinbarungen haben Vertragsstrafen von $10.000 bis maximal $250.000 Dollar zur Folge.
Das wirklich merkwürdige an der Formulierung ist aber, dass Sony es im Gerichtsverfahren nicht beweisen konnte bzw. brauchte, ob Geohot die Nutzungsbedingungen unter dem DMCA verletzt hat oder nicht.
Die Frage was man ganz legal mit seiner Konsole machen kann, oder auch nicht, ist somit immer noch unbeantwortet und könnte wieder zur Sprache kommen. Die Anwälte beklagen ferner, dass die "Strong-Arm"-Taktiken von Sony mit der sie Informationen aus PayPal und Youtube herausgepresst haben Gegenstand einer öffentlichen Debatte sein sollten. Dies wäre das Hauptziel der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit von den Anwälten gewesen: Das Bewusstsein der Menschen dahingehend zu schärfen, dass der DMCA zu wachsweich formuliert sei und unverhältnissmässige Mittel erlauben würde.
Wie Ars Technica es formuliert, hat keine der beiden Seiten gewonnen, aber es wäre dennoch eine Leistung gewesen als ein 21-Jähriger zumindest einem Mega-Konzern Paroli zu bieten.
[quote]IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED by consent of the Parties that Hotz,
whether as an individual or as a principal, officer, director or employee of any business
entity, and his agents, servants, employees, distributors, suppliers, representatives and all
other persons or entities acting in concert or participation with Hotz who receive notice of
this Judgment, shall be and hereby are permanently enjoined and restrained from:
A. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the
law;
B. Engaging in any unauthorized access to any SONY PRODUCT under the
terms of any SCEA or SCEA AFFILIATES' license agreement or terms of use
applicable to that SONY PRODUCT, whether or not Hotz has accepted such
agreement or terms of use, including without limitation:
(i) reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling any portion of the Sony Product;
(ii) using any tools to bypass, disable, or circumvent any encryption,
security, or authentication mechanism in the Sony Product;
(iii) using any hardware or softare to cause the Sony Product to accept
or use unauthorized, illegal or pirated softare or hardware; and
(iv) exploiting any Sony Product to design, develop, update or distribute
unauthorized softare or hardware for use with the Sony Product.
If any term of such SCEA or SCEA Affilates' license agreement or terms of
use applicable to that Sony Product shall be determined by Congress or by a
court of law in a final non-appealable decision in an action to which SCEA or
an SCEA Affiliate is a party to be illegal and unenforceable, then such term
shall not be binding on Hotz.
C. CIRCUMVENTING any of the TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT;
D. TRAFFICKING in any technology, product, service, device, component, or
part thereof that, at the time of Hotz's trafficking, circumvents any of the
TPMs or security in any SONY PRODUCT, including but not limited to the
Ellptical Curve Signature Algorithm ("ECDSA") Keys, encryption andlor
decryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter program, Signing Tools, 3.55
Firmware Jailbreak, andlor any other technologies that enable unauthorized
access to andlor copying of the PS3 System andlor enable compatibility of
unauthorized copies of other copyrighted works with the PS3 System.
E. Distributing or posting any SCEA or SCEA Affiliates' confidential or
proprietary information relating to any SONY PRODUCT;
F. Knowingly assisting or inducing others to engage in any of the conduct set
forth in A-E above solely directed at any SONY PRODUCT or that otherwise
constitutes contributory liabilty under the law.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that any violation of this Injunction
and Order by Hotz shall result in his payment of stipulated liquidated damages in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation at the election of SCEA or SCEA's
Affiliates. In the event that the violation involves distribution or TRAFFICKING by Hotz of
softare, hardware, or any CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE, or knowingly assisting the same,
each distribution of said softare (including downloads via the Internet), hardware, or
CIRCUMVENTION DEVICE shall.constitute an independent violation, up to a cap of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000). Such liquidated damages shall be an
optional alternative to demonstrating actual or, if relevant, statutory damages.[/quote]