"What? My records don't indicate he is to be executed"

"Are you questioning me?! It probably got held up in the paperwork!"

Sorry. Had to put a little Chrono Trigger in there.

LOL!! Like I said previously. Sony's execs are going to come into work one day and might find PSN buggying out.  Who knows what those hackers might do next.

Did this guy even get arrested or did they just confiscate his equipment. Any great hackers usually have backup laptops and systems elsewhere. So if some does get confiscated all their data is still secure somewhere else. I wonder if this hacker did the same thing.

Real hackers comunity says : ''now is pesonal''

Great this guy is getting the worst punishment when geohot was the one who created and released the original key. This is Operation pipe dreams and Operation Head Hunter all over again. If some of you guys remember.

Key word is should, yes. But the reason it is should because it all depends on the judge/jury and how informed they are with technology.

then why hack ?

Linux was available from day one with the PS3.

Until they decided to use it to hack the console that is..

Actually the law around reverse engineering are quite complex.

I know about them because I deal with them on a professional level.

I'm not sure about hardware but on the software level for example it's quite complex.

Lets say you want to make an application that reads excel files. It is not legal to purchase a copy of excel and use it to reverse engineer how excel saves its files...

What you can do it get public available excel files and try to understand what those files contain. But at a business level it is illegal if the developer doing the reverse engineering  has access to the application he is targeting.

What most companies do to get around this is they subcontract that work and the contractor asks for the original company  to create a bunch of excel files with specifics characteristics and then to provide those to him ( and that is legal).

I'm not aware of any company every trying to apply those rules to non company entities, but they are there........

I guess following those rules you could argue those hackers ran the original Sony software to see how it works so that they could change it's behavior through a mod, and technically that's a grey area ( but like I said I'm not aware of anyone ever suing anyone except a business over something like this..)

You know that probably would be a good thing.

Because while the current thing Sony is doing is hard to win a court, winning a court case against someone that brought down the PSN would be pretty easy....... And most of those hackers have too much ego to keep secret one such thing if they ever were to perform it...

lol. This image is abit true in a way. These "hackers" do have a community supporting them. The more aggressive Sony gets with their actions, the worse they're gonna it's gonna be on them.

The 360 is doing extremely well even with piracy following it around for ages, but Sony just can't seem to accept it. Can't wait to see what happens in the future with all of this. I honestly can't see ending with Sony being satisfied/winning though.

Either way, the ps3 will be fine.

Sure it is, he provided a file called jailbreak.zip on his website that does that work for you...