fordy said:
Kasz216 said:
dsister said:
Icyedge said:
If they had done nothing then yes it would have prove that theres no penalties for distributing hack into the wild. But since they sued Geohot and made him sign a agreement it shows that there is penalties for releasing an hack into the wild. The next person will surely think 2 times before distributing a new hack.
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ok... they didn't make him sign an agreement.And for a "loser"(not my words) he walked away with a slap on the wrist. He has never hacked a Sony product before, how badly do you think this is affecting his life now?
That little thing in no way would stop me from releasing a hack for the PS3 or any other future console.
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Yeah i mean when the penalty for doing it is.... "You can never do it again."
Is that really a penalty?
I'm not going to do this... because if I get caught... i'm going to have to promise to not do it again!
Except... if you don't do it... you aren't doing it anyway.
It's like saying... don't litter, because if you get caught you will have to promise to not litter.
If anyone is deterred from doing something, because the ultimate penalty is, they will have to promise to not do it again....
they aren't a very logical person.
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"Stop your nuclear weapons program or else"
"...or else what?"
"Or else....we will be very, very angry with you, and we will write you a letter, telling you how very angry we are!"
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Yeah. Really thinking about it... it's like forbidding your kid from eating cookies before dinner.
Then he eats cookies, and you make him promise to not do it again. (And like put the cookies on top the fridge to represent the fine he might pay.)
His only punishment was moving the cookie jar on top of the fridge... which he never was aloud to be in anyay.-
At the end of the day.... the Kid got his Cookie and is no worse off.
At the end of the day, Hotz got his cookie, got Sony to spend millions of dollars on him, became the most known hacker on the internet and got offers from said publicity to work with companies.
At the end of the day, Sony got him to promise to not hack their products again.
I mean, if anything shouldn't this ENCOURAGE hackers?
