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

[Spankey]

fordy said:

Spankey said:

You've been clutching at straws the moment that you found out that corporate generated security keys do not follow the same rules and legislation as ISBNs and UPCs.

It's easy to say "you don't get it" when you spout nothing but illogical nonsense and defend a position that not even Sony would bother bringing up in court.

For your information, the door is open to anyone, but it wont help you unless you have a signed data file. He played by the rules that Sony themselves programmed into the PS3. He did NOT circumvent security. Circumvention of security involves finding or creating holes that should not be there. This was Sony's port for publishing content.

You honestly don't get digital legislation, do you?

oh my, hot and flustered are we?

consider the case of voucher codes.

Just because it's a string of numbers, that doesn't mean that after you have found out how they generated them then told all and sundry on the internet how to do it that it makes it ok for you, your mates and the internet to enter and claim stacks of $100 codes, does it?

The numbers are useless without a purpose. the purpose is to protect interests. letting others know how to get the numbers should be wrong.

I don't understand how you don't see this, or are you just stubborn?