Sony Gets Other OS Class-Action Lawsuite Dismissed

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fordy said:

o_O.Q said:

"it WILL be because of it's obligation to maintain backward compatibility with games published under the original key"

maybe, we'll just have to wait and see... this is about 9 months and counting now, for a seemingly simple hack it appears to be taking some time

"I give a critical eye to ALL corporate entities, especially the ones who start to test the bounds of civil rights (including the right to personal property), as well as snake oil techniques, such as taking back things that a buyer has purchased (there is a derogatory term for that, but I refuse to use it)"

it confuses me how people can say things like this then turn a blind eye to what the hackers are doing... then again we're two different people and as a result we can't be expected to see eye to eye on this issue

"such as taking back things that a buyer has purchased"

implying that people were coerced into purchasing their ps3s for linux? even though it wasn't advertised on the box it came in, in any of the tv ads or promos etc?

Once again, assuming that it already hasn't been hacked. If it already has, it's most likely remaining underground in fear of a Sony backlash.

Okay now tell me, what did the hackers do wrong in this situation? You need to relay your hate from the hackers and put it towards piracy in this issue. They have every right to modify their property just as they have as much right to inform others how to with theirs.

I want you to prove to me that there was not one person who listened to either Phil Harrison, or read the article on the Sony website informing of OtherOS capability, and then decided that it would make a perfect, cheap Linux box, for say Samba, Apache or NFS. Heck, even I was almost persuaded, myself! If you can do that, then I would concede that Sony took nothing from anybody.

"They have every right to modify their property"

true but they have no right to aquiring content for free and disturbing the activities of others, two things which they have demonstrated on several occasions that they hold no reservations about and no one should have to suffer from their activities

"I want you to prove..."

i can't but to call that advertising in this context is absurd imo

"it would make a perfect, cheap Linux box"

$600 dollars for a device to run linux is cheap? what would you usually pay on a pc for linux?