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Kasz216 on 21 February 2011
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fordy said:
Kasz216 said:
fordy said:
LivingMetal said:

If you haven't found it already (fight for gaming), then you might as well stop wasting your efforts.  It's very clear.  I'm not going to answer anyone's questions their way.  I tell it like it is.


Then I suggest that you stop this support of a court case that Sony will lose either way (What are they going to do? Make money off of him?) and fight towards getting Sony to secure their link between client PS3s and the gaming servers.


Nah, they have a chance to win... and if they win and they also win the Open OS lawsuit they will have won the right to do anything including download software in your PS3 to brick your PS3 as soon as your warranty is up... and it you try and alter the firmware to remove this autobricking feature, you could be sued. 

So it could be a powerful 1-2 punch that basically allows them to disable PS3's as soon as they stop selling them for a year.. or if they wanted too, after remodeling the PS3, disabling all PS3's that the hack worked for... whether or not they've downloaded the hack or not.

That is Sony's ultimate goal: Complete control over everything that you purchase. Heck, people only need look at the DRM rootkit fiasco to see Sony's true intentions with handling media.

But still, I believe this will be a losing battle for them, since others have shown that control over online hacking/cheating can be maintained at a server level, where it should be. Sony just wants to take the cheap way out of it.

Well they aren't sueing Geohot for that though.

They aren't even pretending that's why they are sueing him.

It's not even mentioned in their lawsuit.  That's just Livingmetal's self rationalization for why he supports the lawsuit.   Pardon another "deflecting analogy" but it would be like puttng someone in jail for some archaic law about kicking a can 12 times in a row while wearing a hat, but you are happy because that person is also a spousal abuser.  Or since what Livingmetal is mad about isn't illegal or Geohots fault...   I guess it'd be more like someone getting thrown in jail for tax evasion... and your happy soley because they are for abortion rights.

They are sueing him for jailbreaking his console for his own use... and for showing people how he did it... and that other people then used that info to create further hacks that allow people to pirate.

Much like the recent Iphone lawsuit... caused by him actually I think, he was the same guy that Jailbroke that right?