PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend

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damndl0ser said:

Xen said:

Khuutra said:

Xen said:

Khuutra said:

axumblade said:

Is anyone really surprised? He's obviously not liked on most gaming industry or in the forums (especially VGChartz, a site that's dedicated to sales). BUT in the world of pirates, he's considered a hero.

Again: he's also legally in the right, here. It's one thing to be a pirate, it's another thing to be someone who wants to take the piss out of Sony, it's quite another to be someone who wants the law to be upheld instead of corporations being able to bully people down.

What are Sony's charges against him?

All right, let me think

I'm going to guess

They're suing him on a civil level because he broke the security on the PS3?

They are *probably* suing him on breaking copyright laws, and he did that, for fact. I just fail to see how is he legally on the right here, sorry.

The Eula that Sony makes you sign is as useful as a piece of toilet paper with shit on it.  The only thing its good for is flushing down the toilet.

As far as I know there has never been a Eula that stood the test of court.  And most companies use them to bully people who have no money into doing what they want.   Most of the time this works but when it goes to court it always fails.  Sony is just trying to make this guy a scape goat and to try and make the next hacker out there re-think what they are doing.  Which will never happen, hackers will be hackers and they give 2 shits about making money off their efforts or what it costs them in the long run.

My thoughts on the matter is this.  I hate any hacker that ruins my fucking experience, they are useless assholes who need to burn in hell (ban them all and through away the key).  For the other "real hackers" you know the kind that do home brew or do linux etc....  more power too you.  You should have every right in the world to turn your PS3 into whatever kind of entertainment hub that you want too without any fear from big brother coming to smash your head in.  I hope Geohot wins just because it will set a precident for Sony and any other big company to take even more draconian actions against us.   

The biggest problem I have is that Sony is basically throughing the Homebrew, Linux and "Real Hackers" in with the pirates and game modders.  Just because you do homebrew or put linux on your ps3 shouldn't give Sony the right to ban you from playing on PSN unless your running modded/pirated software.

PSN is a free service, Sony has every right to cut that service to someone whenever they feel like it.

Just because it is free....

Because you had access to someone free for some amount time doesn't mean you get guaranteed free access your whole life time..