Sony to court: Geohot doesn't respect your authority

Sony is frustrated with George “Geohot” Hotz’s unwillingness to cooperate and hand over his hard drives, as the young hacker is currently in South America. Hotz refuses to comply until his case is heard in a New Jersey court, where he is based, instead of a California court.

The court filing by Sony reads: “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, an excuse for why he will not immediately provide the components of his hard drives as requested.”

Sony doesn’t accuse Hotz of fleeing the country or being obstructive, just that “Hotz’s attempts to dodge this Court’s authority raise very serious questions.”

Hotz continues to maintain that his jailbreak was not specifically targeted at, or distributed to, any entity or person in California; in other words, he just blurted it to the entire world through the web. He also states that Sony Japan should be suing him, not SCEA.