SONY LIED, GEOHOT DID NOT FLEE?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Hephaestos said:

Aprisaiden said:

Read carefully about the drives, Hotz removed all the compents possible without core compoents (eg. the platters) needed to retrieve the data -- thus the 3rd party had to go to the drive manufucturer for memory controllers, etc. Also he is in south armerica, obviously this isn't illegal as its a civil case - but how did you expect SONY to respond? 

definitely not by slander & libel ^^ (guess what in some countries, that is punishable by law ^^)

 

This. And also about the whole case, I normally tend to support Sony, but not this time: Sony has every right to fight piracy and enforce respect of rules on its network, but it hasn't the right to limit the freedom of honest users on the devices they bought. If somebody hacks his PS3, Sony has the right to not accept the hacked console in its network, and nothing else. If somebody uses a tool that has also legit uses to pirate, Sony has the right sue the pirates, not who made the tool. BTW, Sony clearly didn't go as far as MS feared with PS3, but if it ever wishes to make PS4 or PS5 become a PC replacement, it will have to accept a far greater users control on their HW than what they have with the current gen consoles. And basic rules of informatic security teach that the client must never be considered secure by the server, so blaming GeoHot or any other jalbreaker for such security design flaws is plain stupid and totally lacking the necessary level of self-criticism to handle that issue. Sony is king of HW and entertainment, but it must grow up in other fields.