Administrator DKT27 Posted February 9, 2011 Administrator Share Posted February 9, 2011 Whoops. 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. Sony's mistake is all the more glaring, considering the company is so sensitive about the jailbreaking that continues on its PlayStation 3. Last month, Sony requested a restraining order against famed hacker George Hotz, also known as Geohot, for creating a jailbreak that allows people to run custom packages on the PlayStation 3. Sony alleged that the jailbreak violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and asked a court to stop Hotz from making anything related to his hack available on the Web. Hotz took issue with Sony's claim that his jailbreak violated DMCA, asserting that his solution was a jailbreak for a closed system, just like any jailbreak for mobile phones, which are explicitly allowed by DMCA. After some jousting between Hotz's and Sony's attorneys, a U.S. District Court granted Sony a temporary restraining order. Hotz has since removed all mentions of the jailbreak from his site. But if Sony really wants to stop the jailbreaking, it should probably stop tweeting the code itself. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRELOK Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 This attitude was deliberate. Sony depends on piracy to sell more PS3. Until the company took too long to do this and still made over the wrong way. The keys to unlock PS3 are rolling over the Internet for some time. Sony will now have to endure the jokes made with the company due to wrong way of doing this. I always thought the way to unlock the console came from the company, now I have no doubt! :clap: :pirate: :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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