i am depressed hearing that konami not only bought out hudson entertainment and  raped them  not only closing the n/a doors but in japan will focus on social games, more then ever i want to konami fail and burn in the fires of  hell the basstards god they know that because they suck hard nowdays that  they will ruin everyone else to what the fuck

Sony going crazy against the PS3 hackers.

What’s more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (.pdf) of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube page. The game maker is also demanding that Twitter provide the identities of a host of hackers who first unveiled a limited version of the hack in December.

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Sony wants the information “to determine the identities of third parties hosting and distributing the circumvention devices” so Sony can send them a DMCA notice to remove the material “and, if necessary, seek appropriate relief from this court.” (.pdf)

“The discovery they call for in my opinion is overbroad,” Hotz’ attorney, Stewart Kellar, said in a telephone interview.

Sony declined to comment.

A hearing is tentatively set for Wednesday. Sony filed its documents about 7:30 p.m. PST on Friday.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered Hotz to remove the YouTube video and the code from his personal website — orders with which Hotz complied with last week. Ahead of an unscheduled trial in which Sony is seeking unspecified damages from Hotz, Illston had concluded that Hotz likely breached the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He did so by publishing or “distributing” a hack designed to circumvent software meant to protect copyrighted material, the judge said.

Hotz, by order of Illston, is also scheduled to surrender his computer gear to Sony by Thursday. Kellar is trying to convince Judge Illston to back away from allowing Sony to examine his drives and other devices.

Sony is also trying to haul into court the so-called “fail0verflow hacking team.”

But first, Sony needs to learn the identities and whereabouts of  the group’s members. They are accused of posting a rudimentary hack in December. It was refined by Hotz weeks later when he accessed the console’s so-called “metldr keys,” or root keys that trick the system into running unauthorized programs

Dat was reported here yesterday (or day before).

Yeah, I love it, and not just 'cause I am anti-piracy, I just love to see large companies get pushed to the point where they start pressing the large red buttons that deploy armies of lawyers.

Fuck with a large corporation, expect to see some lawyers.  It's gangsta.

Sony are dickheads and so are Nintendo.

aspro said:

If your sigs contain naked men, yeah pretty much...

There's no problem with naked women. You've got such a problem with naked men that I'm starting to think you were the mod on GS, not Steel!

Dvader said:

Neogaf offtopic is filled with penis and testical emergencies in which ultrasound is very helpful in. One dude had testicular torsion but he caught it late so they removed his left nut. Poor guy.

You need to become a private testicle scanner for gamers. They'll relate to you, so be more happy for you to fondle their testicles. You could save lives, or at least testicles.

First of all I think we're lucky it's not $400+ lol.

Secondly it's a Nintendo handheld so I can't see it having a great deal of impact. $350 is pretty damn high, but handhelds have always been quite expensive here I think. Is there going to be a Pokemon game at launch?

Then it will be a failure.

Marvelous Cancels HD RPG Project

Oh Marvelous... what the hell is wrong with you guys?

You know the PSP has really become a monster in Japan. If I were Sony I'd have no idea what to do with the system. It's a corpse in the West, but in Japan its the top selling system and hell in that top 20 half the games are PSP games. It's a great move to release the NGP in the West, but in Japan it really makes no sense at all to put it out there.