| thranx said: "The group goes on to say that Sony is trying to say that it "has rights in the computer it sells you even after you buy it, and therefore can decide whether your tinkering with that computer is legal or not." They strongly disagree with this."
That is what worries me about this. Once it starts where will it end. If I don't really own my electronics what else do i not really own? |
Well, there are some distinctions. I don't know where that is on consoles, but when you buy a game, you're buying a license. You may own that disc, but you don't own the content on the disc and the license you bought only allows you to do specific things with the content on that disc.
It's like with my condo. I own the property the condo is on, the space between my walls, but I do not own the walls and the space outside the walls. There's a very specific set of things I can do to my condo even though I own the property.
With consoles, I'm not sure what you own. Definately calling it a console instead of a computer is something Sony wants to do but I still don't think they can stop you from reading information on the console and they definately can't stop you from talking about what you found on your console (PS3's do not come with any sort of NDA and I don't think they ever could).
About the only thing they could have grounds what-so-ever would be intent (and even that would be a hard sell and probably wouldn't get anywhere).
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And I agree with the EFF on this one, what Sony is trying to do is scary and not right. They have every right to be angry, but they can't really take that out on GeoHot. This wasn't some clever security hole exploited, this was a gaping hole in their security that they completely missed.
