Sony: seeks compensation for jailbroken PS4 consoles

Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) requests as 16.000 δολάρια από ένα άτομο που διέθετε στην αγορά jailbroken κονσόλες PS4 γεμάτες με πειρατικά παιχνίδια. Επειδή ο πειρατής δεν ανταποκρίθηκε στην κλήση της εταιρείας, η Sony κατέθεσε μήνυση και ζητάει από το issue a default judgment for violation of the provisions of the DMCA.

For many years, the PlayStation 4 (PS4) remained an invincible stronghold in the attacks of .
This started to change slowly during the summer of 2017 that released a first jailbreak. A year later the jailbreak tool was upgraded, and the popular console is now a victim of pirates.Sony

The rise of piracy has prompted the Japanese company to take a stand. Last October, he filed a lawsuit against a man from California, accusing him of selling jailbroken PS4s full of pirated games.

According to Sony, defendant Eric Scales used the alias “Blackcloak13” to sell jailbroken PS4s containing dozens of pirated games through eBay. In addition, he had his own website, informing those concerned that they can "stop buying games" and use pirated copies.
In the months following Sony's complaint to the federal court in California, not much was done, as the defendant did not respond. So last week Sony filed a new request stating:

Defendant Eric David Scales advertises and sells jailbroken PlayStation®4 game consoles on eBay. These "jailbroken" PS4 consoles are loaded with pirated copies of PS4 video games.

Continuing, Sony is asking $800 for them consoles sold and another $200 per pirated game, for DMCA violations. So with the 76 games that the consoles contain, the total damages according to the company amount to 16.800 dollars.

Copies of Sony's complaints (pdf) (pdf 1), published by TorrentFreak.

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