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Kasz216 on 12 April 2011
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LivingMetal said:
Kasz216 said:
LivingMetal said:
padib said:
LivingMetal said:
padib said:
LivingMetal said:
padib said:

things are far from over

http://www.techspot.com/news/43249-geohot-joins-anonymous-boycott-of-sony-asks-you-to-come-along.html

 

This. And him being banned from buying a SCEA product doesn't stop him from buying a Sony product, so a boycott of SONY products on his part is legitimate. He's a hacker, hackers don't just stop - they love a challenge. I knew there was more up his sleeve.


I don't see how boycotting a product will help his hacking skills.  But if he really needs a challenge, there's always mountain climbing.

Definitely mountain climbing as a challenge, and intellectual as he is he might even need it. ;)
But jokes aside, like I was referring to the article. It goes beyond the boycott, he's now part of Anonymous. That'll allow him to continue the fight on another front. It's not an anti-sony thing here, it really is an anti-conglomerate thing. If it was against apple I would've thought the same. It's a matter of philosophy more than anything really. I don't like the fact that the guy gets a) crushed by a large corporation, and b) no right to use what he lawfully owns in whatever way that legally pleases him. 

He never lawfully owned the software on the PS3.  Never.  So he got... "crushed."  So you are correct.

Okay smart-alec, define owned in "he never lawfully owned the software on the PS3". On the flip-side, did he own the PS3 hardware? Do you own yours? What elevates software above hardware such that you own one and not the other?

A little challenge for you ;)


The firmware?

So, if the car company who made your car decides program in your cars firmware that it shuts down once the warranty is up... no complaints?

Corporations retaining rights to firmware is an extremely untenable position when you consider the fact that... EVERYTHING has firmware now a days.

From Videogame Consoles, to Cars, to Microwaves.

Only if I agreed to it.  But didn't someone already disprove your car analogy in another thread?  Besides, you don't like it, you don't buy it.  That's freedom.

No.  They didn't?

Also, uh, nobody agreed to it when they bought the product.

This is why EULA's are problematic.  They're basically illegal when it's ruled you wouldn't have agreed to it before you bought the product.

This is why companys never actually let things play out to trial.

 

If he had signed an agreement BEFORE placing down his money for his PS3, there would be a point... but since that's all done AFTER you buy your PS3, open it up, and it's unusuable....

It's basically up to a judge.