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

[Spankey]

irstupid said:

Spankey said:

it would have been interesting if GeoHot had found a way to completelely remove the OS from the PS3 - leave it utterly blank - unable to play PS3 games and free of PSN in otherwords - and have the ability to run a completely different OS (maybe a yellow dog variant or some other Linux or some such) instead of offering a method to modify Sony's software.

but isn't that what the US Navy and other reasearch organisations have legally done?

if sony wins this, then what the us navy and other research organizations have and are doing would then become illegal

i'm not too convinced that it would...I think it's the tampering of their software and the potential fuckery with the games and PSN revenue they're concerned with, not the OS removal. If Geohet wins, then perhaps we might see Sony offer a PS3 OS removal kit, but i guess we'll find out soon enough lol