George Hotz hands remainder of donations to the EFF

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Icyedge said:

Parasitic said:

Carl2291 said:

dsister said:

What's the point of releasing a second screenshot(assuming he made another donation)? He did this to insult Sony...

He's such an attention seeking cry baby

To be honest, Sony came off as the real crybabies for abit. Piracy has existed on the 360 for ages and the console is doing completely fine. The moment all that stuff came up on the ps3, Sony went berserk and blew things out of proportion.

The PSP also been hack for years and they did nothing. In any case, It wasnt wise to shout high and loud about creating and distributing this hack after so many years for the console to remain unhackable through a simple flash method. Microsoft or any other company that is, might very well do the same in a similar situation. If Geohot isnt seeking attention or should I say prestige,  he could do what hackers usually do, remain anonymous.

Personally, on one side I dont see fighting piracy as being cry baby. But, on the other side I dont see Geohot as being cry baby either, hes just seeking reconnaisance. Its a very intelligent guy but he need some time to become wiser.

I think the problem here is that they were not fighting piracy in any way. People keep trying to link this to piracy, but it wasn't about that. It was about fair use of your own equiptment. People say they went berserk because instead of going after pirates they targeted any one they could. I think most people on this site are anti piracy.