Sony and George "Geohot" Hotz said Monday that the two sides have mutually agreed to settle their suit, which includes Hotz agreeing to a permanent injunction against posting information that Sony has wanted removed.

Sony and George "Geohot" Hotz said Monday that the two sides have mutually agreed to settle their suit, which includes Hotz agreeing to a permanent injunction against posting information that Sony has wanted removed.

The settlement was reached on March 31, the two sides said in a statement.

Sony is glad to put this litigation behind us," said Riley Russell, general counsel for Sony Computer Electronics America (SCEA), in a statement. "Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers. We believe this settlement and the permanent injunction achieve this goal."

"It was never my intention to cause any users trouble or to make piracy easier," said Hotz, "I'm happy to have the litigation behind me."

On his Web page, however, Hotz claimed that he would never purchase a Sony product again. "As of 4/11/11, I am joining the SONY boycott," he wrote on his blog. "I will never purchase another SONY product. I encourage you to do the same. And if you bought something SONY recently, return it."

Hotz also claimed that "there is much more to come on this blog". On Sunday, Hotz posted an image with the caption: "I am in ur blogz/censoring ur speeches".

In January, lawyers representing Hotz argued that he hacked the PS3 to . Hotz, the lawyers claimed, "re-enabled" OtherOS functionality, or the ability to dual-boot the PlayStation 3 using some other OS, such as Linux.

SCEA filed suit against George Hotz (AKA "geohot") as well as "Bushing," Hector Martin Cantero, Sven Peter, and others alleged to be part of the FAIL0VERFLOW group of hackers that contributed to the . SCEA charged Hotz and the others with violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, plus breaches of California copyright law, breach of contract, and other violations.

Sony said in a related filing that it had dismissed its complaint against Hector Martin Cantero and Sven Peter, who had not responded to Sony's earlier suit.

SCEA also asked the court for a temporary restraining order preventing the plaintiffs from posting any code, including the so-called Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm keys, encryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter, or other tools - the injunction Hotz apparently agreed to.

The case then took a turn for the odd, with Sony claiming that of hard drives that contained the code. For his part, Hotz claimed that .

Hotz had attempted to claim that the California court had no jurisdiction in the case, as Hotz was a resident of New Jersey. That complaint is still in front of the court.

The Sony statement also made clear that Hotz was not part of the recent . The group said that it , an action Hotz plans to join.