The unhackable Playstation 3 remains to be unhackable as the scene is without it’s heroe GeoHotz and now even lost its first possibly mass marketed Playstation 3 piracy tool, as Sony stepped in and brought the Australian developers behind the USB powered device to court making any sales of that device unable to proceed as the actions against them are proceeding.
[The court] orders that up to and including 31 August 2010, the First to Fourth Respondents and each of them, whether by themselves, their servants or agents, be restrained from doing any of the following acts with respect to all and any Universal Serial Bus devices described as “PSJailbreak” [...]:
(a) importing them into Australia with the intention of providing them to another person;
(b) distributing them to another person;
(c) offering them to the public;
(d) providing them to another person; and/or
(e) otherwise dealing in them.
The Australian company have already acknowledge the lengthy legal battle which is either going to expand over time or be done quickly, as they have apparently already refunded the amount which was paid for the device by customer as well as canceled orders which didn’t go through with the final transaction. The company is now in a standstill with their product as nothing can be done until some kind of verdict is reached by the end of August allowing them to either continue on with the sale, or discontinue.
Whilst nobody can tell the future of this device as of yet, nor if it officially works as advertise. Sony still sees is as a great threat towards it’s most promising console of this generation and keeps on pushing the legal actions, although the developers behind the device claims it could have easily been dealt with by using a simple firmware update.
