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This has been Newegg's strategy forever... https://www.newegg.com/insider/newegg-vs-patent-trolls-when-we-win-you-win/ https://www.newegg.com/insider/newegg-vs

• judge2020 4y ago
  Same for Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo-redux-cloudflares-prior-art-search-bounty-returns/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo-redux-cloudflares-...
  • sigmoid10 4y ago
    Hotz literally mentions Cloudflare as an inspiration for this.
• aeyes 4y ago
  Talk from Newegg chief legal officer from 2013 about patent trolls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgXItNZbAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgXItNZbAY
• runnerup 4y ago
  Old Newegg. That lawyer has moved on along with the rest of the leadership after a change in ownership. Also George Hotz fought and cowed Sony’s legal team when he was a kid in a saga involving ‘marcan42 of Asahi Linux. These patent trolls must be very foolish to try to intimidate him. Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_America,_Inc._v._Hotz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_...
  • vorpalhex 4y ago
    Ok you can't tease us with a story and not at least link it.
    • caf 4y ago
      Suggested search term: geohot
  • artdigital 4y ago
    Didn't he settle with Sony with the promise to never hack any other sony products in the future? (source wikipedia)
    • runnerup 4y ago
      In my opinion, for someone his age that’s essentially a victory if it doesn’t involve any payments or criminal repercussions. In theory, marcan42 would have been subject to a very similar or same settlement but he went on to continue working on Sony stuff without repercussion: “In 2016, he ported Linux to the PlayStation 4 and demonstrated that at the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress by running Steam inside Linux.” Considering that Sony’s primary claims were: Violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 1201) Violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(c)) Contributory copyright infringement (17 U.S.C. § 501) Violating California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (§ 502) I’d say that the outcome failed to reflect Sony’s perspective on the situation and much more closely aligns with “George Hotz faced nearly no actual consequences”.
      • prvit 4y ago
        There was no chance he would’ve ended up with any of the things you mention.
        • slimsag 4y ago
          I don't know? Gary Bowser (canadian citizen) was deported to the US due to lawsuit and sentenced to 40 months in prison recently. "Conspiracy to Circumvent Technological Measures and to Traffic in Circumvention Devices", and "Trafficking in Circumvention Devices" were two charges
          • prvit 4y ago
            You could of course look at the facts of the case and understand why. He was, in fact, selling circumvention devices for the explicit purpose of enabling piracy.
  • hulahoof 4y ago
    What a wild story. Complete with diss track towards Sony[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg