Sony and Geohot reach a settlement

[Spankey]

padib said:

Spankey said:

padib said:

LivingMetal said:

 

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 ;)

Corporeal property vs. non-corporeal property.

Physical vs. Intellectual

etc.

Physical vs. Intellectual, you've got to be kidding me. So are you saying there's no intellect in the Physical components of the PS3?

Okay, let's go with Corporeal vs. non-corporeal. What in that makes it more or less ownable? What do you make of copyrights? Corporeal, no, but ownable just as much.

Put it this way:

You can cheerfully put a bullet through your PS3. (as long as it's done in a proper, safe environmet preferably one designated as a shooting range or similar)

However, you're not allowed to shoot someone elses PS3 unless you're entitled to do so.

The software on the PS3 does not belong to the buyer of the PS3 system (it only contains a licenced copy of the software for limited use).

As the software does not belong to the buyer, are they not entitled to "put a bullet" through it as GeoHot did?

That is, I think what the courts were going on about, and from what I've seen of the settlement, it turns out that (in that jurisdiction where the court was held at least) the buyer is not entitled to do what GeoHot did to the software. (that would probably have been the finding so Hotz folded)

but yeah, I agree that the lawyers actually scored more than anyone else from this