A code sharing website has removed seven custom firmware files relating to recent PS3 security breaches after receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act request from Sony.
According to the platform holder's request, the files in question "circumvent effective access controls and/or copyright protection measures".
ZoomGamasutra reports that Sony's takedown notice was issued a day before a US court granted the company a temporary restraining order against hacker George 'Geohot' Hotz - the man who cracked PS3 wide open.
Hotz, along with hacking team 'fail0verflow', kicked off 2011 by revealing they'd finally cracked open the deepest layers of the PS3's defence against running unauthenticated code, leaving the machine wide open to homebrew and piracy.
