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A ban against three Australian distributors of a Playstation 3 hack has been extended indefinitely through a Federal Court decision. The hack, which is called PSJailbreak, allows users to run unauthorized and pirated games on the console.  

However, the company's case against PSJailbreak has already been circumvented by console hackers. The creators of PS Groove, a hack similar to the PSJailbreak, have released the solution's software code onto the Internet. PSGroove creators say that the solution is not designed to facilitate the use of pirated games. However, the PSGroove's open source code has already been changed to enable the capability.

Federal Court Judge Julie Anne Dodds-Streeton extended the injunction "until further order" in Melbourne on Friday. The decision prohibits the distributors, OzModChips.com, Quantronics.com.au and Modsupplier.com, from distributing the hack, which has been marketed as the "world's first PS3 mod chip."

A spokeswoman for Sony Australia stated, "this result reflects our continued commitment to take necessary actions from a hardware and software perspective to protect the intellectual property of the content offered on the PS3 system."

The company has also filed a similar case against Zoomba, which distributes the PSJailbreak device in the US. A report from the BBC also says that PS Jailbreak distributors in the Netherlands have also received court documents to halt the distribution of the dongles.

However, now that the open source code has been disseminated over the Internet, it is unlikely that PS3 owners will be prevented from using the hack.

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