If what I understand GeoHot to be doing is correct: that he is going to try to find a way for people who want it to keep OtherOS on their phats and still have full functionality of their PS3s, then if that's illegal the law is morally wrong not him.
If what he is doing is not either directly aiding and abetting software piracy, or potentially leading to the unwanted malicious invasion of people's PS3s then he is fine doing what he's doing as far as I'm concerned. And it seems the hack he's aiming for is allowing people to keep what they already had, and what they thought they'd always have. Yet people seem to be painting him as the villain and Sony as the innocent. OK he may be an attention whore, but on this he's no villain.
Perhaps his initial hack of the PS3 had the potential to maybe one day eventually lead to a thriving PS3 game piracy black market, but there is no clear evidence that his initial hack would lead to any such thing. In fact it would appear that assessments of the usefulness of the hack came to the opposite conclusion.
So as far as I can tell, at this point not only what he's seeking to do isn't illegal, it isn't even clear that it's got the potential to lead to widespread actual illegal activity. Yet people are calling him a douche and wishing him to suffer from terminal flatulence or some equally unpleasant thing. How odd.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
