Sony On The Hunt For All The Hackers

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Aprisaiden said:

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Ssliasil said:

This topic makes it blatantly clear which poster's are hackers and which are not lol.

Hell yes, go Sony!  Already kicked Geo-Hotz ass, keep it up.

What people dont realize, this is all for far more than just the playstation 3 - this help'sall companies, in both gaming and pratical electronic fields.

This topic makes it blatantly clear which poster's don't understand the concept of ownership and fair use.  I should be able to do whatever I want with the things I own as long as I'm not breaking any laws.  Just the act of "jailbreaking" anything should NEVER be illegal.  Pirating games should be illegal and punishable.  Opening up a console for other uses, even if it enables piracy, should not.  I don't understand how, as a consumer, you can be OK with this.

Do you really want a corporation telling you what you can and can't do with your own stuff?  Because that is where this is leading if this is allowed to stand.  You want to tinker with your car or some electronic device?  You could end up in the same place as Geohot.

And no, I've never hacked any gaming device or pirated any games.

Go Sony, take away our rights as consumers!

You have a right to do what you want with the hardware, but you only bought a license to use GAME OS. To reverse engineer GAME OS in order to play pirated games IS infriginging on SONY's patents and copyright, by distributing it you are also selling stolen goods.

Hell it is no different then if i took Windows 7, modifyied to remove valididy check, added in a cracked version MS Office and then distributed it.

In the end you are stealing from SONY, weather its games or operating system code - it is still stealing and the only reason the legal system is lagging behind is because they are reluctant to draw the line simply becuase its hard to tell how much it hurts a company. Yet PSP software sales show how much damage can be done with most good games on the system having millions of torrents each! If just 10% of those pirated games were bought new you would see lifetime PSP software easily rise by atleast 25%....

The whole "licensing" software model has been an attempt to bypass the laws of ownership and fair use.  It's complete BS.  There is no reason I can't reverse engineer a piece of software I bought.  If someone uses that for illegal purposes, then they are at fault, not me.  I haven't stolen anything.  To suggest that this is stealing is just ridiculous.

A company should never be able to tell you how you can use something that you've bought, period.  Company profits should never be placed above consumer rights.