thranx said:
They tried to flex their monetary might in the face of consumer rights and failed. He can still use their products by the way. He also had nothing do with piracy or with releasing sony trade secretys, noth of which are criminaly illegal. The case sony brought was not a criminal case but a civil suit, very different. If sony cared about piracy they would go after pirates not someone completely unrelated to it.
He agreed to numerous terms relating to Sony products. He was tried civilly as what he did to acquire the trade secrets isn't necessarily criminally illegal (Though Civil action can be brought down, and it was).
How exactly did they fail? He agreed to their terms, not the other way around. Saying he had nothing to do with piracy is so naive it's laughable. Because he said so right?
Kasz are you out ther? you explained so well in the other psn threads i will leave this to you, hope you read it.
I will give the short version, the case was a wash neither side won or lost, no new case law was created and we will be in the same boat when the ps4 gets hacks. I will agree geohot did wi either, but nor did he loose. It was a wash
Smart business would have been to keep otherOS and not have it gimped by by not letting people have access to all the hardwware they bought. Than the only hacks that could happen would be illegal ones that imvlolved breaching the PSN wich consumers do not own, or piracy wich is illegal. Instead sony went the other root and tried to close out their sytem and force ordinary consumers to hack their own equiptemnt if they want to use for other purposes besides ps3 gaming.
Smart business dictated that keeping OtherOS was a mistake. They removed it, I could careless. Maybe they pissed off the hornets nest of hackers, but that's only because they tried to 'stop' their system from being hacked.
Every company tries to protect itself from these things, failing to ignore that is retarded. Like many of the posters here, it's all about motive in the ongoing 'Fanboy War'.
Smart business is making money, and keeping your customers happy and looking like a company that knows what it is doing. From what sony has done, they have lost the faith of some customers, they made theire whole network security look like a joke to rational consumers. They have cost their bottom line in the fact they are paying more money to secure their networks now and have to foot the bill for identity theft protection. Where in that was good busness sense? And they have the same priacy problem they would have they not made those decisons. Not too mention all this drama is not over yet apparently. Where in that was the good business choices?
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