Rpruett said:
Kasz216 said:
Rpruett said:
Kasz216 said:
o_O.Q said:
Kasz216 said:
Which again... didn't cause piracy. Someone later may have used those keys to pirate....
He didn't. That simple.
You don't penalize people for other people being jackasses.
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"Someone later may have used those keys to pirate" o_O you mean the keys he distributed online? or his house keys?
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Keys distributed online. Again, can't penalize people for other people being jackasses.
That's like me giving my friend the address to another friends house to send a birthday card... and then be thrown in jail for murder when the guy freaking murders him.
People who misuse information are the only people who get punished for it. Not those who provide it.
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Again, You would get in trouble for releasing work related information in a variety of fields in the United States. Anything related to the medical field, releasing information can get you fired, black balled, legally have action brought on you (Criminal / Civil ) .
If you worked for a Bank as a safe operator and told someone the combination to the safe (You would be considered an accomplice).
If you worked for Lockheed Martin or a variety of other places and released trade secrets, you would not be able to freely release information or you could be facing the consequences.
Releasing Trade Secrets is a punishable offense and a worthy one for Sony to go after. This isn't a Sony unique thing either, Apple didn't like it when he did stuff with their phone either.
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And Apple lost.
As for the rest... those aren't remotely relevent. Do I really need to go into why? I mean you weren't being serious right?
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That's not the point, it wouldn't be the first, last, only time that the court system has no idea what to do for technology related cases because of a fundamental lack of understanding the technology.
Yes, you do need to go into this.
Trade secrets are punishable and exactly what Hotz released. They are absolutely relevant to the conversation (I would like to hear how you think they aren't).
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Well actually... that very much is the point... and the ruling made complete sense. Not allowing someone to crack their firmware allows Apple to establish an illegal monopoly and deprive people of plenty of featrues others have provided just as well for free.
Aside from which.... lets start with the first two.
A) Trade secrets have to confer a competitive advantage. In otherwords... if a company finds out your trade secret from an employee it has to confer on them an unfair advantage. So if Pepsi buys the recipe for Coke from Coke... it saves them the trouble of testing and testing till they get a just right coke flavor.
Knowing the specific keys Sony uses is not a trade secret.
B) Note Employee mentioned there. If some magical pharmcist took a bottle of coke, and perfectly deconstructed the secret coke forumla and posted it on the World Wide Web for all to see....
there is nothing that could be done about it.
If someone comes across it naturally, it is no longer a trade secret by definition and is now in the public domain.
So... those codes aren't trade secrets... and even if they weren't... Hotz doesn't work for Sony... so it's a moot point.
