Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators

[vlad321]

JamaicameCRAZY said:

Kasz216 said:

Wouldn't that have been solved by... Sony not selling the PS3 for a loss.  You are basically saying, Sony should be protected for making poor buisness decisions, and because tangentially something he did was used in a wrong way.

 

That's like saying gunmakers should be forced to store owners money because the guns they make may of been used to rob stores that don't have robbery insurance.

Laws shouldn't be crafted around poor buisness decisions.

What would really solve it is.. Geo not trying to break security which would allow him and others access to information conected to peoples wallets/ pirate games/ steal shit. Which is illegal.

There are many problems with your post (pirating =/= stealing, legallity =/= morallity, etc.) but I'll just talk about why the hacker has every right to break the security on the product that he bought. He bought the product with his own money. He has every right to the product. He can alter in any way shape or form. When I get a book, I can scribble in it, cross sections out, and do whatever I want with it. Same thing with the PS3. Your right is that you bought it and therefore you should be able to open it and alternate it as you see fit. That's your RIGHT, not your privelege. If you think otherwise, I suggest you think a little more on the issue.

As for not telling anyone, that's a whole different issue. It is fairly well known, if you give someone hardware, it will be opened and its depths plunged for every bit of information, security or not. If your plan on making money on the assumption that the hardware you sell won't be completely open in the future, then you deserve to go out of business for thinking such idiotic things.