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Kasz216 said:
And yet.. he wasn't convicted eh? Whether piracy or not is around is completely pointless.
Also. Not he wouldn't be catagorically found guilty.
Yes he would. If he released a firmware designed with piracy in mind and admitted as much, he most certainly would.
Piracy being one of the outcomes is... completely irrelevent.
The only time something providing or making something that has illegal uses is relevent is when there are zero legal applications.
Afterall, kitchen knives have the illegal use of stabbing no?
Stabbing someone with a kitchen knife is one of the known negative effects that some people desire... right?
Again, you can name an example like that.
I can name an example of a restaurant who gets in legal trouble because a patron who legally bought alcohol, drank too much and ended up driving (on his own accord) and killing someone while intoxicated. It's not the restaurants fault that he drank too much, drank too much without a ride, drove drunk, nor is it their responsibility to make sure that he has a way of safely getting home.
Sony literally does this all the time. LOTS of companies do.
Ofcourse they do. A.) For intimadation like you said , B.) Searching for anything they can manage to include as illegal and win a case on, C.) Because they have a whole arsenal of attorneys on payroll that it's no skin off their back really.
I don't think we're really disagreeing on much, I don't have a moral dislike for Geohot. I just do believe that he did it (Atleast partially) with piracy motives (And I think you're being intentionally obtuse for saying otherwise). I don't even mind him Jailbreaking things, but if he did it with piracy in mind (And Sony can show or prove this, he will be in legal trouble).
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