Most of them was made by Radiantshadow... a PS3 fan.

And I don't want free games, I just want to be able to play PS3 games

That response was so full of win I cried irl x)

Reported. I don't support geohot or hacking the PS3, but you're taking it too far.

Lol. I thought it was funny.

whatever, I'm allowed to do whatever I want on my console, WHICH I BOUGHT. It is mine and I have the freedom to do whatever online. I'm completely against piracy, but if I want to go online and get a 100-0 kill-death, that's my RIGHT.

Down with consumer slavery!

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998

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"“Copying” is used in this context as a short-hand for the exercise of any of the exclusive

rights of an author under section 106 of the Copyright Act. Consequently, a technological

measure that prevents unauthorized distribution or public performance of a work would fall

in this second category.

Copyright Office Summary December 1998 Page 4

of a copyrighted work. Making or selling devices or services that

are used to circumvent either category of technological measure is prohibited in certain

circumstances, described below. As to the act of circumvention in itself, the provision

prohibits circumventing the first category of technological measures, but not the

second.

This distinction was employed to assure that the public will have the continued

ability to make fair use of copyrighted works. Since copying of a work may be a fair use

under appropriate circumstances, section 1201 does not prohibit the act of circumventing

a technological measure that prevents copying. By contrast, since the fair use

doctrine is not a defense to the act of gaining unauthorized access to a work, the act of

circumventing a technological measure in order to gain access is prohibited"

Quote : "In the end of 2009, Hotz announced his efforts to hack the Sony PlayStation 3, a console widely regarded as being the only fully locked and secure system of the seventh generation era. Hotz opened a blog to document his progress, and five weeks later, on January 22, 2010, he announced that he had successfully hacked the machine by enabling himself read and write access to the machine’s system memory and having hypervisor level access to the machine’s processor. Hotz also detailed the many things his work could allow, such as homebrew and PlayStation 2 emulation (a feature removed by Sony in newer revisions of the console to tackle production costs)."

So why exactly what he hacking a platform supporting Linux to run homebrew ?

Coudn't he instead write his homebrew on Linux ?

 PS : And if the answer is that Linux on PS3 was a PoS, why complain about it's removal ? ( and seeing how the US army and others labs are using it I don't think it can be considered to be a PoS..)

Congratulations, you failed to understand the part you bolded.

The section above that says that circumventing technological protection measures to create backups of intellectual property you legally own is legal (fair use).

The bolded part says that is unlawful to circumvent technological protection measures to illegally gain access to copyrighted content that you are not authorized to copy (= stuff you do not legally own).

EDIT: I'd like to add that the act you quoted doesn't apply to the current case.

I'd also like to futhermore say i think Geo is a joke. He was part of a team that did the ipod hack he gave up then when someone cracked the ps3 he jumped right in and used what fail came up with and called it his own. He is nothing but an attention whore, he is so outspoken he just takes all the credit. Sure hes smart but his robotics stuff was much more impressive and where he should've stayed. Also releasing the code out there knowing people with use it to eff over sony and make them loose money is an example of Negligence and or Carelessness and he can absoulutly be sued for that.

As far as what everyone is saying if i purchase something its 100% mine there is restrictions with tons of things you own. Should we cry fowl to the government that i cant shoot my shottie into the sky at 5 o'clock in the morning because it pleases me so? No deal with it. Sony has the right to have their product do what they would like it to they made it they have the right to deny you access to it if they so choose. They are people also and they have just as many rights as you or i (its called corperate personhood). So come off it already.

Hackers that do illegal stuff get media attention, that's why you get a skewed view of hackers.  Hackers that turn a 360 into a laptop get very little attention, it's not newsworthy.  Just remember that the internet would not be as advanced as it is now without hackers and MS and Apple wouldn't exist.