To me it just seems like a major blunder that has gained them nothing. They now have a system that is under constant attack and it's very likely that anything they might have gained by getting George Hotz to not try to hack future Sony products will be lost by painting themselves as a major target for everyone else. What's worse is that they could have easily gained a lot by actually hiring the guy (like SCEE may be trying to do with other hackers) instead of turning this all into a media circus and debate about consumer's rights,
In my opinion this is just another sign that some major house cleaning needs to be done at SCEA before they are able to cause even more damage. They got off lucky this time as it could very well have happened in the crucial November and December shopping months and cost Sony a lot more (imagine how this would have affected the biggest game launch of the year...). For a part of the company that seems to like to talk a lot of smack (without giving out their American sales numbers mind you) it should be the smack being brought down on them.
-Legend11
