Geohot Pleading with Community for Donations in PS3 Jailbreak Case

[alekth]

voty2000 said:

alekth said:

@fordy: probably a lot of truth there.

@voty2000: commercially or not, doesn't matter, you're not allowed to distribute derivatives of copyrighted works without permission.

This isn't what he's being sued for though.

He's being sued for violating the Digital Millineum Copyright Act.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/playstation3-root-code/

That act contains way more than distributing copyrighted goods.

“Hotz published on his website the ‘3.55 Firmware Jailbreak’ code, a circumvention device or component thereof that disables, avoids, bypasses, removes, deactivates and/or impairs a critical TPM (technology protection measure) in the PS3 System,” <- this is the accuation under the DMCA, the other 7 claims aren't even about it. They never accuse him of distributing their copyrighted property, and the only accusation of such a crime is a principle assumption that someone else will with the information he provided.