Sony's latest attack on customer freedom

[Euphoria14]

dharh said:

Euphoria14 said:

I'm sorry, did Geohot pirate anything? What did he steal?

He has to steal something first before you call him a thief.

Is he an attention whore? Yes. 

Is he a thief? Absolutely not.

 

If not then you are of the party that thinks anything unrelated to PS3 and/or SONY should be punishable by law, which includes modding.

If so then happy future where you have no consumer rights because you will only bring it upon yourself.

He stole and distributed intellectual property imo.

Modding hardware per se is not necessarily an offense. Selling/buying the means to do so is illegal. Using the mod to use pirated software is illegal.

Id actually be happy with a completely open system run on open source software. Though that would also _require_ console software to switch over to the PC model where software often 'phones' home and uses authentication keys to validate their authenticity for network usage. And even then you get very shitty multiplayer experiences with bots and hacks all over the bloody place.

What im happy with and whats _legal_ are not necessarily the same thing. You can argue for your utopia all you want, doesn't make it especially legal.

Which IP?

XMB? 

So we never technically own the PS3?

 

If so and they wish to go this route I would have no issues if they didn't charge us hundreds of dollars to get something we don't own.