Hacker sells Jailbreak PS4 and is now being sued by Sony

 The PS4 seems to have again become the victim of software piracy. Not only a jailbreak console was sold on eBay. But now it's enough for the company. One of the sellers is taken to court.

Sony brings to justice a hacker who has jailbreaked several PS4 consoles on the auction platform eBay. The seller, Eric Davies Scales from the US, said he cracked and modified the software on the PS4 so that cracked games would run on it. So he offered in his offer the console with more than 63 installed games. Among them should have been many different titles from God of War to Everybody's Golf.

This Sony knows, because they themselves have bought the consoles through a third party and put to the paces. Another thorn in the eye of the enterprise was a link, which Scales should have packed in its offers. This led to a page that offered customers a jailbreak for their own PS4, if they would send them to Scales. According to the complaint, the hacker is said to have advertised software piracy by writing "STOP BUYING GAMES" on the offer.

Sclaes, who allegedly acts on eBay under the name "Blackcloak13", according to the page Kotaku has not commented on the lawsuit. Other users still have their PS4 on eBay in the offer. Presumably, Sony will also send mail to these providers soon to protect their console from piracy.

Playstation 4: Sony is against dealers with jailbreak consoles

As with any generation of consoles, the scene is of course interested in jailbreaking, for example, to run homebrew software on it. While hackers generally see it as a sporting challenge to find a gap in the system, it's a problem for providers. At the latest when dealers like here sell the Playstation 4 as a jailbreak version.

On the so modified MegaMods consoles can then play illegal copies and there it is not surprising that Sony has now taken action against such a dealer. He was even so bold as to advertise that you then no longer need to buy games. Fittingly, there was a pirate flag. The dealer promised that with the prepared PS4 you could use "every game and much more for free".

The MegaMods consoles were posted on Ebay and other trade portals for 400-500 US dollars. Little wonder that it was not to Sony's taste and they went against the offers. To prepare for the lawsuit in California, two consoles were ordered and found that the consoles worked as advertised. Of course, this did not cause any joy, especially as there were already 60 games parked on the hard drive for which there was no proper license.

Sony is now demanding a fast-track verdict on omission. Furthermore, the already modified consoles are to be destroyed. In the aftermath, of course, compensation shall flow, the amount of which is not yet determined. Together with the 60 games could come together a decent amount per console.

The whole action is certainly meant to set an example to dissuade other dealers to sell such consoles. Some of them are playing around on the Internet, so it will be interesting to see if the Japanese stay on the ball.

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