| Mr Khan said: 1That could be where removing Other OS comes back to haunt them, then, because doubtlessly the terms of service reserved Sony's right to do so. They have been acting like users don't own the product, which would then void their ability to tout their ToS with impunity. The whole circumvention of DRM thing is a grey area anyway under the DMCA, and in this case they would have to prove substantially that Hotz intended this to be released for the purposes of piracy 2And i know distribution of copyrighted files is what's illegal. The fun part is that, as SSJ12 pointed out, script and keygens and such cannot be copyrighted, merely patented, and there's nothing wrong at all about distributing the details of a patented item |
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2 If the people doing the suing were the keygen maker, then I'd agree that you were right. However, if the people doing the suing was Intel, and it was against the person or people that created the keygen, then I'd say you're wrong. Law would agree with me, which is why keygens and torrents and things of that nature are often hosted on international servers in one of the scandinavian countries (I think it's Sweden).
Also, Sony was sued for removing other OS. If I remember correctly, everyone here was so happy about that. Now on the other side of the same coin, everyone is upset. That looks bad on our community. I agree that Sony breached consumer rights by removing Other OS, but their rights are also being breached now.
