Yeah, that one I was aware of, what i wasn't aware of, is they were sued for betamax for "helping copyright infringement."

Which... actually holds more weight then saying Geohot helped it... since they actually specifically made something who's majority and intended purpose was to copy copyrighted works.

That was hillarious Badge, I'll give you that.

Sony also sued LG for having its patents in their phones and Lg fired back for sony having patents of theirs in ps3s

Where is the homebrew? where is the Dreamcast emulator? Wii emulator? N64 emulator? none. All I have seen is file managers, back ups and ftp which are very usefull for piracy .

You are asking where an emulator is... like a month after a hack has been made?

Does Wii even have a PC emulator?  I'd honestly be shocked if it did... or if it did, if it ran well.

Er seriously?  Actually Geohot released an NES emulator though.

Meanwhile, making backups of your games... = legal.

Though i've never done it.  Should though.  Had to rebuy SD vs RAW 2011 when i accidently stepped on my powersupply in the middle of the night.

exactly, videos on youtube of hacked ps3's show nothing but backed up games, not seen much of people running linux......
people defending this saying, people only wanted linux back honestly have no idea

FBANext (arcade) , PS364, N64onPS3, SNES9X, E-UAE (amiga) and more... first homebrew game was released yesterday called Pintor..

Regarding the geohot thing, what the article fails to acknowledge is that Sony is the 'Maker' here, not geohot.

Whether or not there is any legal ground for Sony is imho a bit irrelevant (who thinks the law is always fair anyway?). Even if Sony's agressive stance is smart or not is besides the point.

I feel they have the right to protect their investment, which geohot and the likes are jeopardizing. Sony has been selling their platform under cost price so that customers can afford the thing, meaning to recoup the investment by software. This investment created jobs for god knows how many people developing the platform & the content. That is why the PS3 is a closed platform. Personally I think that's a pretty compelling reason.

If geohot seriously thinks his 'efforts to avoid piracy' are enough than he's really one arrogant (or perhaps just thick and ignorant) kid. Who says his 'efforts' can not be worked around? Did he avoid a PS emulator to be ported? (Sony still sells PS1 games, mind you, so he has actually still opened the door to piracy in a way)

He distributed tools to break security, and that directly jeopardizes the bread and butter of a lot of people. So geohot, is your little hobby worth that? The industry is under enough pressure as it is, so I'd rather see him excercise his skills in a more meaningful way.

My 2cts

Give it time. The system has been open for a few months and optimising an emu is not easy, nor is writing homebrew games. Give it a year I say and there will be tons of great homebrew available.

LMFAO