Sony and Hotz Agree Out of Court – Full Settlement Details

[Commander Fury]

 

Following months of legal wrangling, Sony and hacker George “Geohot†Hotz have jointly confirmed that they’ve settled their hacking dispute out of court.

 

Sony and Hotz have issued a joint statement to announce “the settlement of the lawsuit filed by SCEA against Hotz in federal court in San Francisco, California. The parties reached an agreement in principle on March 31, 2011. As part of the settlement, Hotz consented to a permanent injunction.â€

 

The details of the agreement have already been leaked, following Hotz refusing to discuss the terms on his blog as they’re “confidentialâ€. Get the full court document in the images below.

 

Hotz is now bound by a permanent injunction that forbids him from “trafficking in any technology†that “circumvents any of the TPM’s in any Sony product,†including any sort of decryption code.

 

He’s also banned from assisting in such activities, or distributing any confidential information about Sony in any form.

 

Any violations of the agreement will be charged at $10,000 each, up to a cap of $250,000.

 

It’s also clearly stated in the document that Hotz would be tried in California if the deal was voided. Exactly where Hotz was to be tried formed a substantial part of the ongoing spat between the two parties.

 

“Satisfactionâ€

 

 

In a press release, both Sony and Hotz “expressed satisfaction†that the case, based on Hotz’s publication of PS3

 

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