Update,including MP4, 7:01 p.m. PT: with Hotz saying he is on a long-planned vacation.
If you've been following the
Blu-ray Ripper (aka George Hotz) then you're in for a fun twist today: Sony is accusing Hotz of fleeing the country, but Hotz says he's just enjoying spring break.
Sony makes the allegation in a
Blu-ray cloner(PDF, see page 2, line 24) dated Friday.
After news stories began appearing today, Hotz wrote to set the record straight.
"Actually,
you can choose which titles and chapters, it's true I'm in South America, on a vacation I've had planned and paid for since November. I mean, it is spring break; hacking isn't my life," he writes. "Rest assured that not a dime of legal defense money would ever go toward something like this. And of course [Sony-employed law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton] loves the idea of painting me as an international fugitive. I have been in contact with my lawyers almost every day; I would not let the case suffer."