Icyedge said:
buglebum said:
Icyedge said:
Stop you nonsense bubblegum, its getting ridiculous. When you have tool to reverse engineer or to make custom firmware you have automatically part or full of the original code in it. Its linked together.
"Guys, i don’t joke, it’s serious.
And to prove it, i kept my word and uploaded all my HV reversing stuff."
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That isn't true in the slightest, what makes you think that?
The end user downloads the original Sony firmware, the hacker provides the tools to modify that firmware. The hacker provides no copyrighted code.
Even the decryption key that geohot provided isn't copyrighted, since it can be derived by reversing without knowledge of trade secrets. It's questionable if a decryption key can even be copyrighted in the first place from my understanding but I can't be sure of that. Would be curious to know if anyone knows better.
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You create a CFW with a patch that replace some of the original files with modified files of the same name. Its the only way to trick the system into thinking its legit. Once that done, then yes you can also script your own files to add features to the CFW.
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True, but that is not illegal.
Those patches modify the firmware - but geohothacker is not the person that offers those full modified files for download. It's a fine line and it hasn't been crossed. All the modifiying is done at the user end, if I'm wrong please correct me as I have done the hack myself and that's how it works from my understanding.
You do need a modified file to get the PS3 to accept the hacked firmware, but that file isn't provided by geohothacker etc (in this case).
