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

[Spankey]

thranx said:

Spankey said:

UPCs and ISBNs are examples of numbers (or integers) which have been generated, distributed, and are protected, are they not? you claimed that no number could be afforded protection, obviously you were mistaken.

any one can still use that string of numbers for anything they want. they are not copyrighted. But the controlling body of UPC and ISBN would not recognize them if they do not want to. Nothing to do with copyright.

 

this article talks about trying to copyright a number, and also of another similar case involving hd dvd.

http://ipnotions.com/2007/05/you-can-copyright-number-but-not-as.html

"Update: Lots of good coverage out there. Only one link to me, but them's the wages of sin. Or in this case the wages of toiling in obscurity. In any event, I found particularly heartening the coverage at EFF Deep Links, that makes clear that it is, in fact, an anti-circumvention claim, and not a copyright one."

I suggest people read it as it is somewhat similar to this case at hand, and sony isn't on the bad end of this one hd dvd was.

the situation here with numbers is that a person can't generate a number on their own and then say it came from UPC or ISBN's bodies. they can tattoo it on their genetalia or claim the number sequence is a sign of God but they are not allowed to pass off a number as someone elses -when it's clearly not - and then distibute the number and tell people how to make a fake number.

The the PS3's (and to some extent apparently the PSN) have been hacked to accept fakely generated keys as coming from Sony when they are clearly not. the method to generate fake keys and make PS3's accept them as coming from Sony has been distributed. I'm fairly sure that Sony will have some grounds for recourse, but again that's what the courts will decide.