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radiantshadow92 on 22 February 2011
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superchunk said:
radiantshadow92 said:
 


You don't own the network, or those keys. Sony owns that. Geohot took it, and mass distributed it. Stop acting like the big bad sony is trying to take away your precious rights. If you don't like it, don't buy their product. I am sick of hearing you people wine about how this is "one step close to companies owning what we buy". Its not, companies are not out to get us, and EVEN on the SLIM chance that Sony wants to own us, guess what, Nintendo is around the block. Thats why theres competition.Atleast, accept that geohot is an asshole who needs to pay for distrubuting those keys. 


You're simply wrong.

He did nothing to the network, just the PS3 itself.

I can find directions on how to root any Android phone. Its the same thing as him releasing the PS3 master key as all that really is, is the pw to full root access over the entire PS3. Problem is, Sony f'ed up and did something that was critically wrong as that same pw gave access to the PSN as well. That was just stupid.

The day bluray launched, actually before, they master keys to its encryption was also posted online.

These actions are not illegal. They allow you to gain full control over the product you purchased. If I want to remove Verizon's bloat from my phone, I should be allowed to. In fact, had Verizon not locked all that software in there, I wouldn't have rooted my phone in the first place.

Same reason I haven't done anything to the PS3 as there is nothing I really want to change. However, that doesn't mean I forgo the legitimate rights to do so.

At the same time, I don't attack a hacker because of piracy. I attack the pirates for that.

I could beat the shit out of my wife for not listening to me if I wanted to, but I don't because its simply wrong. Same here, I could hack my Wii/PS3 and pirate the shit out of every movie and game in existance, I don't because its simply wrong.

You all need to keep this in perspective as a very real attack on your ownership rights.


I give up, no point in arguing further. We just have different veiws on consumer rights is all =/