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r505Matt on 05 April 2011
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Games4Fun said:
r505Matt said:

You know, this is something I've been trying to think through myself. Are they, in a sense, attempting to censor Sony for Sony's attempt at censoring? And is that okay? I think so. I'm not totally sure, but I do believe it it okay. I mean, Sony is attempting to censor Geohot and other hackers from their free speech right to share information. So I think fighting fire with fire is okay here.

Now, sure, it's not so black and white to say that the hackers actually have that right to share that information. Legal precedence says yes, but with the way this judge really seems to favor Sony, it can turn out either way.

Also, the whole subpoenaing for IPs for anyone who's visited the site since 2009 is very very anti-privacy. I mean, 2009? Is that when this recent hack was first released? That part of that really bothers me. Just visiting a site can get you put on a list. That just doesn't seem fair/right/just/legal to me.

Well I was more referring to the 15yr old kid part on the whole censorship thing, but the same logic applies to the Geohot case I suppose. But the getting information on who donated visted the site and such is actually part of my problem with the Sony side. Which is one of the many reasons I cant agree with a side. Its abunch of politics and quite frankly it drives me nutty. You end up voting for the lesser of two evils, but in the end you are still going to  be screwed somehow.

Yeah, if it was just the donators, I might not even mind too much. But it's anyone who visited since 2009, around the time when Geohot first got in through Other OS. But that doesn't really have that much to do with the current hacks, and is the main reason I'm very against Sony lately.

The "funny" thing is, I'm VERY against piracy. Piracy has changed the music industry into something I don't like anymore. Musicians have to be businessmen themselves these days just to make a living. Being an artist isn't enough anymore (I'm a musician if you can't tell).

So I have quite a big problem with piracy, but I truly believe free speech is an amazing thing. Most corporations are against free speech, and go about corporate censorship on a daily basis. Maybe that's why it's still so easy to be against Sony here, so by trying to squash the hack in such a heavy handed way, it really just amounts to a form of corporate censorship.