| o_O.Q said: [...]
2. "Sony could have found a viable way to keep Linux and make its honest users happy" how, since linux itself was what was exploited ( do you really think its that simple to say they should have found another way? )? originally linux was what allowed the hackers to break in so it was removed 3. with regards to this lets say for example that piracy or online cheating is water coming through a leak and the leak can be the exploit in question... taking a sponge and removing some of the water will work to a certain extent but unless the source is patched it is pointless... as i said it makes absolutely no sense to go after the pirates on an individual basis if the exploit is still there continuously allowing others to join in the activity |
1. That is what they state, but in a lot of other cases, like phones jailbreaking, courts ruled there were legit uses for the hacks, and we know there are also for GeoHot's one.
2. Pirates used Linux to break through because there was a vulnerability in the way Sony implemented OtherOS, the right thing to do was removing that vulnerability, as they would have been forced to do so if the vulnerability were in a subsystem essential for gaming or movie playing, for example. Moreover, once Sony produced millions vulnerable PS3s, removing Linux from successively produced ones was totally pointless, pirates just need old unpatched consoles to crack the security and also to study without problems every other subsystem, looking for other vulnerabilities in parts Sony just can't remove. Sony closed the stable door after the horse has bolted.
3. Responsibility is individual, not collective so Sony really hasn't choice about it, you can't interrupt water supply to everybody because in some homes there are leaks. But Sony hasn't just the instrument of suing pirates, it can kick them out of its networks without the need of suing, for breach of the rules that everybody wanting to access them must explicitly accept (much stronger and enforceable obligation than EULAs).
