Jeez this whole Geohotz thing has been SO FUNNY! Thank you for making the start of 2011 so memorable!

Something like 3-4 million people have the "homebrew channel" on their wii according to the developers. Who I might add are extremly upstanding completely against piracy people.

I own a PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii...I'm completely pro Xbox 360, I can't stand my PS3 hardly gets used other than for the amazing exclusives that are Uncharted 2 and MGS4. Other than that it's a paper weight, I fully support modding of all hardware including consoles if at all possible.

The benefit of being able to play all my games off the hard drive is a great idea to me.

It's a shame that dick heads were cheating on PSN, but I believe that has been fixed, or will be fixed very soon so really don't see the problem. Even if it couldn't be fixed, civil rights come first over any corporate bullshit in my eyes, no matter the cost and implications.

Tough luck, would say exactly the same about Xbox 360. The difference with that is that to modifiy an Xbox 360 so it can run unsigned code is only possible on consoles around 2 years old and that haven't been updated to a dash since that time.

The hack that just allows pirate games to run can be done on ANY Xbox 360, I don't have a problem with that either.

Also, I don't remember seeing a tirade of angry little boys moaning when the first Xbox 360 DVD-ROM hack came out, or when the full jtag hack (that allowed cheating online) came out...

It's just another reason why I really dislike the PS3 in general, the whole userbase seems incredibly uninformed and brainwashed by the Sony suits. Just don't like narrow minded people like that. Yep, it's a bit sad that people influence my liking if a console in that way but the blind fanboyism on the PS3 is so bad it's very hard to not be totally turned off by it if you value forward thinking and individualism.

You've been clutching at straws the moment that you found out that corporate generated security keys do not follow the same rules and legislation as ISBNs and UPCs.

It's easy to say "you don't get it" when you spout nothing but illogical nonsense and defend a position that not even Sony would bother bringing up in court.

For your information, the door is open to anyone, but it wont help you unless you have a signed data file. He played by the rules that Sony themselves programmed into the PS3. He did NOT circumvent security. Circumvention of security involves finding or creating holes that should not be there. This was Sony's port for publishing content.

You honestly don't get digital legislation, do you?

oh my, hot and flustered are we?

consider the case of voucher codes.

Just because it's a string of numbers, that doesn't mean that after you have found out how they generated them then told all and sundry on the internet how to do it that it makes it ok for you, your mates and the internet to enter and claim stacks of $100 codes, does it?

The numbers are useless without a purpose. the purpose is to protect interests. letting others know how to get the numbers should be wrong.

I don't understand how you don't see this, or are you just stubborn?

Talk about missing the point entirely.

Along with nearly everyone else in this thread.

Mr Jackson, could you change the way you spell "sales" from the way you currently spell it as "sells".

"Sells" isn't a real word in the context you use it all the time in. You or I can "sell" something, The collective term is "sales", no matter how often you deliberately mis-spell it.

Thanx

Weapons can be used to commit crimes and weapons manufacturers perfectly know it and everybody knows it.

So:

Actually vouchers is a good example that keeping the number protected is purely for corporate interest only. And yes, people quoted voucher numbers everywhere. I used a voucher number to peorder my 3DS because another site quoted it to everybody.

This is why the companies regulate this, not the government. Sometimes the code can only be entered a certain amount of times before it's expired. Any company that doesn't only has itself to blame.

Now think about this. If this whole numbering crap would indeed be protected by law, why the hell would Sony go to such lengths to protect it? In that definition, they would be waving the number around exclaiming, "Just try it. I dare you!"

The sale of weapons to the public is actually heavilly controlled if not forbidden in most the Western world.

There is only one main country still clinging to this idea that minute men have to be ready to grab their guns from the closet and form militia to defend the country in case of attack..

Weapons makers are not condemned because goverments have use for them to provide their army..( same reason it isn't ok to have a nuclear bomb in your backyard but it's ok for the US government to have thousands of them).