Hacking Group: "It's the beginning of the end for Sony"

[The Fury]

NJ5 said:

The Fury said:

The end result of the sueing wasn't to get money as Sony know Mr Hotz obviously has none but Sony got a result in that he is no longer allowed to own a Sony product. A victory for Sony even if a moral one. The discussion was about the legality of his actions and while not illegal, they did breach Sony's rights as a business.

People would get pissed true but Sony were nice enough to offer it to us to begin with. It's a privilege not a right. If they did take it away and put full blame on hackers I'd support them for doing so.

I reread it and realised disabling was a bad choice of words (reason why I editted it). Apple do need to guard their store from thefts and they should be doing all they can to do that. 

It seems to me that you're putting Sony's "rights as a business" above customers' rights. The big bully and the little guy...

I'm not sure why Hotz settled that way, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was just afraid of not being able to afford lawyers to fully defend himself until the end. Sony with its team of lawyers might be able to prolong the lawsuit ad nauseam until he's bankrupt. Again, the little guy vs the big bully (at least this time the little guy got off relatively unharmed).

In this case it is about rights of a company because of my view on who owns the Software installed on a PS3. I can do what the hell I like to my physical PS3, I can take a baseball bat to it, shoot it with a gun, make sweet love to it if I really want and Sony can do nothing about it (of course maybe the UK Police might after they find out I own an illegal firearm or did something unspeakable). But a piece of software is not the same and has many more rules attached to it, you licence software in whatever form, you don't buy. This is why I see as what he did as wrong, it wasn't his software to tamper with and it certainly wasn't his master code to release. If he was a good person he would have told Sony about this obvious flaw, let them fix it with an update and never updated his PS3 so he can create all the homebrew he wants. Sony might have thanked him for that.

I'd presume he settled because of costs, his laywers would have said, 'You can't afford this or us, settle', Sony didn't want the added expence but were making a point. I'm a little guy and nothing Sony (the big bully) has done has harmed me, it's other 'little guys' who have.