Sony is actively hiring to bolster its options in the ongoing fight against PlayStation 3 hackers and pirates.
Job listings on SCEA’s website – spotted by IGN - show the firm is beefing up its legal and security teams. First, the firm is advertising for a senior corporate counsel in anti-piracy and brand protection, with the successful candidate tasked with “developing and implementing an anti-piracy program... and collaborating with other anti-piracy organisations. The program to be developed will require a strong strategic online component.”
One of the main responsibilities of the role is “overseeing anti-piracy civil lawsuits and providing support to law enforcement and intellectual property agencies on behalf of SCEA.” It also requires “knowledge of online investigative practices, online databases (e.g. how to find owner, administrator, ISP associated with a given domain name, etc.), anti-piracy and DMCA tracker products and services.”
Sony is also recruiting for a senior paralegal in the same department, “handling presentations on SCEA's trademarks and brands to law enforcement, customs and other entities as required by the anti-piracy program” closely supporting the senior corporate counsel.
The move signals Sony’s intent to further ramp up the fight against those it deems responsible for the breach in system security that opened its PS3 up to piracy late last year, as well as those that continue to discover the secrets of the system’s inner workings.
While legal action continues against iPhone hacker George “Geohot” Hotz and up to 100 unnamed members of hacking group fail0verflow, modding website PSX-Scene reports that another hacker, known only as graf_chokolo, was raided by German police in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Claiming that “Sony was today at my home with police and got all my stuff and accounts”, chokolo has released his entire – and hitherto private – findings onto the internet. “It contains all my knowledge,” he wrote on his development page. “PS3 devs, grab it and continue my work. It contains just about everything I know.”