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

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vlad321 said:

NJ5 said:

The Fury said:

While he didn't break the law he was still sued for harming Sony's products and potentially their profits which they are allowed to sue over.

If games are stolen because of piracy this is less money towards a developer which could easily put them out of business (Sony owned or not).

You don't think Apple would happily disabled any jailbroken phone if they could do it? Make it so that thousands of Apps don't get stolen every day? 

He was sued but that lawsuit didn't go anywhere (the settlement reached out of court was almost without consequences for Geohot). Sony can try to sue anyone, whether they're successful at it or not is a very different question.

Disabling access to Sony's network is a different matter, since that's not a guaranteed part of the sold product. Obviously people would get pissed off at Sony if they ended the PSN since it is advertised as part of the PS3 experience, but Sony is still allowed to restrict access to it.

Regarding the outright disabling of jailbroken products by Apple, I believe that would be a breach of the customer's rights and wouldn't hold up in court even if the "license agreement" theoretically allows them to do it.

Wasn't there that whole part where the Copyrights office allowed the iPhone to be hacked open and custom firmware and stuff allowed to be installed? I highly doubt that they would have sided with Sony on this issue.

Yes and No.

I mean... logically yes.

In practice... who the hell knows?

It's not legal judgements with technology have every been consistant.

I mean... the Judge in the Hotz case ordered that "Hotz should retrieve all the emails he sent out with the playstation key."

So... clearly that Judge doesn't even know how to use an Email account.

She later retracted that part of the ruling after it was explained to her how unbeleivably stupid a ruling that was.