Notorious iOS, and most recently PS3, jailbreaker George ‘Geohotz’ Hotz is in route to South America. According to Hot’z legal counsel, George has hit the road, destined for a tropical destination. Details emerged this morning following accusations from Sony’s legal team that Hotz had “thwart jurisdictional discovery”.
Sony has officially hit a roadblock in the battle against Geohotz. According to a legal complaint filed by Sony (SCEA),
“Hotz has engaged in a campaign to thwart jurisdictional discovery at every turn –regardless of whether the Court has ordered such discovery or not. Most seriously, after Magistrate Judge Spero ordered an inspection of Hotz’s devices and ordered Hotz to appear at a deposition in California, SCEA learned that Hotz had deliberately removed integral components of his impounded hard drives prior to delivering them to a third party neutral and that Hotz is now in South America”.
In addition to details about his whereabouts, it appears Sony has tracked own a PSN account under the alias blickmanic, a screen name uses on forums discussing jailbreaking “of cellular phones”. First a rap, now he heads to South America to evade Sony? It looks like Geohotz time in the lime light is finally coming to a close. At least until he reemerges in an American court room.
[via vghq]
