Ha! Anonymous didnt do it. It was Phantom.

[Kasz216]

flyingforce said:

Kasz216 said:

 

Er, you don't do know much about the legal system do you.  Innocent people settle all the time... largely because large ass coprorations can drag on court cases for years until people go bankrupt.

Which they do... all the time.

See Bleem! which won, but in winning lost all their money.

Which would you rather do if you were Geohotz?  Keep fighting and hope enough people keep donating to you.... and if not you go bankrupt.  Or settle, admit no wrong doing and suffer basically no penalty.

The odd part is that SONY settled... and settled on such poor terms.

They were the ones who thought they couldn't win.

If I was him I wouldn't distribute a hack and cause piracy and online cheating in the first place not to mention copywrite infringement and he was guilty, it's their code (that he altered) and distributed, how can you argue that, what part of that are you arguing?

Well to start with... he didn't distribute their code.  He distibuted a patch that overwrote their code.

Second of all his hack did not allow piracy and online cheating.... and if he did.  That is not illegal. 

See Galoob V Nintendo.

"The Court denied Nintendo's motion for a preliminary injunction, holding that Game Genie did not create a derivative work and also suggesting that even if it did, it might well be fair use. As the district court wrote, "Having paid Nintendo a fair return, the consumer may experiment with the product and create new variations of play, for personal enjoyment, without creating a derivative work."

Essentially, your entire basic premise of the idea is wrong.