Geohot Pleading with Community for Donations in PS3 Jailbreak Case

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IMU1808 said:

scottie said:

This is hilarious

 

A guy manufacturers and sells a bunch of swiss army knives

Thousands of people buy them, and a fraction of those people use them to stab people.

The families of the stabbing victims do not press charges against the murders, but against the manufacturer of a perfectly safe, legal product.

The manufacturer is too poor to afford a lawyer, and appeals for donations

You people criticise him.

 

You are sticking up for Sony because you would stick up for Sony if the company personified itself, walked in and kicked a baby in the face. If this exact situation happened to any other company you would support geohot.

 

Donated. Not a huge amount cos I'm poor as hell, but I gave what I could.

 

GL geohot

Problem here is that SONY's the one doing the manufacturing and selling.
Geohot's the douche that told a bunch of people how to use the device he had nothing to do with the creation of, how to use that device in a way it was never intended. This led to the people using it in ways that violated the law such as piracy and rumor has it, also a way to punish those that are using the device the way it was originally intended and doing nothing wrong... But hey, let's let Geohot be... he's not a bad guy... It's not his fault that his actions led to something bad.

Exactly.

If at all the analogy puts Geohot in the murderer's shoes, stabbing the experience for people who use the product normally and the healthy, legal sales related to the product.

Now the manufacturer sues the murderer in protection of the victims, and rightly so.

Anyone who blames the manufacturer are no better than the likes of the "experts" at Fox News who blame the console/game for people who play games and commit murders. The product was consumed in the wrong way, not according to its original intention, and so why should we be against the manufacturer (Sony, in this case)?

If one doesn't agree with the manufacterer's terms and the laws associated with it, then don't buy the product. No one's forcing the consumer, AND consumers shouldn't force the manufacturers too into allowing them to use the product in a way that it's not designed to be used. The creators have the say, and the least we can do is respect that. So if anyone doesn't like the PS3 and its values, you're better off donating/supporting a company that makes products to your liking and values, rather than giving to a dead end cause as is the case with Geohot.