Sony Suing Geohot and others over PS3 Hacking

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M.U.G.E.N said:

I am perfectly aware you can have some fun applications with this..however within the last few days we have seen several games already being pirated and played thanks to this hacker/s. Heck I saw a video of a ps3 playing Donkey Kong, this is in no way good for the industry, especially in these horrible economic conditions WW.

The problem you have is that you're calling for a man to be held legally responsible for the crimes of others.  It is akin to saying that a markmanship instructor should be held liable if any of his students becomes a murderer.  That does not fly.  Not morally, and certainly not legally.

M.U.G.E.N said:

 

the analogy you provided was overly simplistic and as you said imperfect. Let me use the same line of thought and give you the opposite end of the outcome. A guy distributes weapons, which he made without permission, to the masses. You can definitely use it to defend yourself, shoot a fly and enter the guinness and be famous BUT this will lead to more harm than good. As yours this is by no means perfect. But like I said for a few neat tricks I won't support piracy, doesn't matter which console it is.

You're actually providing a better analogy, for my purposes, than I did.  The gun distributor in question would not be held liable.  In fact, gun manufacturers are NOT held liable for crimes committed with their products.