| goddog said: unless what happened to BHGary happens to them, then it could destory stock value, or they could lose in court in the states and validate hackers, i could really see that happening the way dmca has been interprited recently |
I don't think the hackers can really cause much more harm at this point, the cat is out of the bag. And if they loose at least they (and other console makers) will know that for future devices they can not rely on legal protection to deter having their systems hacked. The way I see it is that Sony at worst ends up with status quo, at best they have created a strong deterent for future devices.
Also it has to be said that the chokolo guy is behaving in a rather stupid way here, if this goes to court the best defence he could have made is the one geohotz is making, that he was just working to restore functionality to his system that was taken away and he had no monetary interest. But by first threatening to release the code if Sony moved against him and then doing it, he has created a situation where Sonys lawyers can claim in court he released the code for the explicit reason for causing Sony financial harm, which leaves him with a much weaker defence.
