Sony's latest attack on customer freedom

[dharh]

Euphoria14 said:

dharh said:

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.

Please go learn how IP laws work.

You do not have the right to distribute the means for others to hack systems. You do not have the right to distribute software you do not own.

You do _not_ own the software that runs the PS3. You own _a_ PS3 that happens to have the software on it. You own an instance of it. You can argue that you have the right to modify said software to do things it was originaly not intended to do. But, again, you do not then have the right to distribute said software to others and/or its modifications.