JamaicameCRAZY said:
Kasz216 said:
funkateer said:
Regarding the geohot thing, what the article fails to acknowledge is that Sony is the 'Maker' here, not geohot.
Whether or not there is any legal ground for Sony is imho a bit irrelevant (who thinks the law is always fair anyway?). Even if Sony's agressive stance is smart or not is besides the point.
I feel they have the right to protect their investment, which geohot and the likes are jeopardizing. Sony has been selling their platform under cost price so that customers can afford the thing, meaning to recoup the investment by software. This investment created jobs for god knows how many people developing the platform & the content. That is why the PS3 is a closed platform. Personally I think that's a pretty compelling reason.
If geohot seriously thinks his 'efforts to avoid piracy' are enough than he's really one arrogant (or perhaps just thick and ignorant) kid. Who says his 'efforts' can not be worked around? Did he avoid a PS emulator to be ported? (Sony still sells PS1 games, mind you, so he has actually still opened the door to piracy in a way)
He distributed tools to break security, and that directly jeopardizes the bread and butter of a lot of people. So geohot, is your little hobby worth that? The industry is under enough pressure as it is, so I'd rather see him excercise his skills in a more meaningful way.
My 2cts
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Wouldn't that have been solved by... Sony not selling the PS3 for a loss. You are basically saying, Sony should be protected for making poor buisness decisions, and because tangentially something he did was used in a wrong way.
That's like saying gunmakers should be forced to store owners money because the guns they make may of been used to rob stores that don't have robbery insurance.
Laws shouldn't be crafted around poor buisness decisions.
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What would really solve it is.. Geo not trying to break security which would allow him and others access to information conected to peoples wallets/ pirate games/ steal shit. Which is illegal.
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He... didn't do that? He broke the secuirty that prevented a lot of other stuff... and then people went from their and broke into that stuff.
Well except the Credit Card shit... that's been around forever... because Sony doesn't encrypt the information it sends out... because... I have no idea why.
Regardless, it's been consistantly ruled that when a company ties the "legal" protections with the "illegal ones" they lose any right to litigation because they, not the hackers made it so that one had to be breached, to breach the other.
Unless there is a surprise ruling... they should lose on that count.
See the recent phone rulings... it was ruled legal because the same steps needed to make use of legal locked programs allowed piracy.
The piracy is still illegal, but not the jailbreaking iteslf.
