| Damnyouall said: About the car analogy: You can modify your car in any way you like. There is no law against modifying your car. However, depending on the modifications, you may no longer drive it on public roads. The legislator determines in which case you may or may not use public roads after modifying your car. In the case of PS3 however, Sony, not the legislative body is trying to to tell you what you can and can't do with your hardware, in the privacy of your own home. Notice the difference? Sony is not the legislator, and it is not up to Sony to determine what you can do with stuff you own, in your own home. What they can do is bar you from using their online service PSN, which they own, with a modified PS3. And despite of what they'd like to make you believe, this really is the limit of their power over what you can and can't do. EDIT: typo |
This. People should just understand that protecting users' right on what they bought doesn't by any means remove the rights Sony and other companies have on their own networks and their right to protect their IP suing pirates. Actually Sony's rights on its own network are based on the same principles that give users rights on the HW they bought, as long as they don't use it against others' rights. Even if Sony loses against GeoHot, it doesn't lose the right to kick modded consoles out of its network, if some people are worried about this, they shouldn't.
