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fordy on 23 February 2011
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The Fury said:
fordy said:
The Fury said:

I read them and like this entire conversation it's all open to interpretation. "Sony's ownership of the PS3". First, it's an abbreviated version that I've seen. I've not seen the full legal documents. What does 'the PS3' mean? Because as far as I was aware I own 'a PS3' not 'the PS3'.

The PS3 is owned by Sony, it's their product to create, distribute, advertise, sell and support. The PS3 has certain garrentee's, warrenties and terms and conditions that go with it like any product to determine if Sony will support it after it's purchase. I doubt Sony cares what Mr Hacker does with his PS3, sitting in his room that isn't connected to the internet and has CFW on it. What he's done is distribute information he has no right to distribute causing issues for THE PS3 overall, something he has no ownership of.

 


The information that you specify is not liable for copyright. I'm honestly sick of repeating it over and over again, so backtrack the thread and find the reasons I specified several times earlier.

If you type "Geohot PS3 Custom Firmware" into google the first link that comes up has a link that goes straight to it (or where it was), it shows video's of how to do it as well,. Did he create this CFW from scratch? All of his own work? Every line of code? Even the security code is a line of code contained in a copywrited piece of software, right?

Then you are more then likely going to repeat it again and again. This is not an arguement where you will not change people's mind. I backtracked because you quoted me, I answered that quote with my interpretation of the term 'THE PS3'.

*sigh*

The security code cannot be copyrighted. It is raw binary data. an integer if you will. People cannot copyright integers.

However, you do bring up a good point about the creation. If he created the CFW himself, then Sony doesn't have a leg to stand on (yes, even if it was encrypted with the key. The key is never *in* the package. It mathematically rearranges the data to a non-readable form to anything but the PS3.)

If it's a copy of Sony's OtherOS that they removed, well....that's a tough one. Since Sony was offering it for free, but then took it away, the courts could see that as merely replacing the service. However I'm not 100% on this part so I can't give anything definite.