Sony: seeks compensation for jailbroken PS4 consoles

Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) is seeking $16.000 in damages from a person who marketed κονσόλες PS4 γεμάτες με πειρατικά . Επειδή ο πειρατής δεν ανταποκρίθηκε στην κλήση της εταιρείας, η Sony κατέθεσε μήνυση και ζητάει από το δικαστήριο να εκδώσει μια ερήμην απόφαση για παραβίαση των διατάξεων του DMCA.

For many years, the PlayStation 4 (PS4) remained an invincible stronghold in cracker attacks.
This began to change slowly during of the summer of 2017 which 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 in piracy prompted the Japanese company to take a stand. Last October, he filed a lawsuit against a person from the , κατηγορώντας τον ότι πωλούσε jailbroken PS4s γεμάτα με πειρατικά a.

According to Sony, defendant Eric Scales used "Blackcloak13" as a pseudonym to sell jailbroken PS4s containing dozens of pirated games via eBay. In addition, it had its own website, informing those interested that they could "stop buying toys" 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.

Sony continues to charge $ 800 for the two consoles sold and another $ 200 per pirated game for breaches of DMCA law. So with the 76 games contained in the consoles, the total damage according to the company amounts to $ 16.800.

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

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