Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games

What happened

Linear Fox founder Nathan Fargo released a public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, while Sony argues in court that players don't own their digital games. It is not persistent: users must rerun it after every restart, and consoles updated on September 16 or later are not compatible. Sony is an electronics and video game company based in Minato.

Sony told a federal court on August 21 that reasonable consumers would not be misled into thinking they own the digital games they pay for. A public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, works on firmware 7.00 through 13.60 and all it takes to achieve is a DNS change and a few seconds.

It comes at an interesting time for the company, just weeks removed from Sony's admission in court that its players don't actually own the games they buy digitally. The recipe, posted on X by Nathan Fargo and shared by console scene figure ApolloHB , consists of setting the PS5's primary DNS to 45.56.67.85, opening the User Guide, typing the exploit page's address into its URL box, and waiting. The code sits on GitHub under an MIT license, so it’s free to use, modify, and improve.

Key facts

• Linear Fox founder Nathan Fargo — released: a public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, while Sony argues in court that players don't own their digital games