Geohot Pleading with Community for Donations in PS3 Jailbreak Case

[Kasz216]

fordy said:

Kasz216 said:

I agree, but court rulings can be quite sporadic, illogical and random when it comes to copyright infringement.   I mean, look at the most recent Iphone lawsuit ruling.

It's legal to Jailbreak your Iphone, but it's Illegal for someone else to Jailbreak your Iphone.

What logical sense does that make?

That's like saying it's legal to paint your house, but illegal for a friend to paint your house?

"You have a right to modify your firmware so you can use legal free aplications, but only if you can do it.  If your not tech savy enough, you can't have your nephew jailbreak your Iphone for you."

My guess is, they want people the freedom to do this, but don't want to create any businesses that profit from it, but yeah in the sense of friends who may be a little more tech-savvy doing it for you, that needs to be an exception.

If that was the case they could of just ruled that "It can't by someone else for profit."  Which is generally how Fair Use works anwyay.