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Sony is suing a pair of hackers for figuring out how to jailbreak Sony PS3 Playstations, and this move has attracted the attention of the infamous hacker collective Anonymous, which has now declared web war on the company. The jailbreak was not about pirating games, but instead about running things that Sony didn't approve of.
The hackers figured out a way to allow people to run their own programs on their Playstations, and according to Anonymous the hackers involved never took their Playstations online, and thus never signed the DMCA. Sony got court approval to see the IP addresses on geohot's blog about the case, as they need to establish that California is the right jurisdiction so that they can apply the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act. The central issue in the case if whether or not if you bought something you have the right to make it work the way you want it to.
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