NO CD crack - Nope

jailbreak your Iphone or android, WP7. - Nope

download any movies, TV shows, music that you did not purchase. - illegal, immoral, and nope.

Using anything that allowed you to use a device, OS that was not originally intended - nope.

i follow rules simply because it is the right thing to do not just due to fear of consequence.

Well, it is the idea of using things as they were not originally intended, that leads to innovations and breakthroughs, and new technology.  LittleBigPlanet was taken places not intended, because of this.  Post-It notes came about as a result of a failed glue being repositioned.  Over and over again history is filled with this.  The issue is WHY you are doing it, and to what end.  Not understanding this will mean not understanding why people do hacking.  It isn't just to get free IP, it is to come up with new stuff.  Well, unless you want to merely be a corporate lackey that consumes whatever they belch out from the bowels of product development.  As a person who does game design, I reposition products all the time.

Anyhow, I think a greater question is: to what end is this repositioning being done?  I believe that is a more mature view of things, than the one of being a good trooper that merely follows marching orders and don't look at things differently.  Conformity isn't always the right answer.

wow, so many replies to that post. 

okay, first off that last line was pretty much to piracy part.  as rocketpig said, legal is legal.  to this i have a very very high horse.  i don't pirate.  i don't even make copies of friends CDs even though it would be so very easy to.  i want to do the right thing, i want to support those that make the content i want to consume.

innovation, repositioning things isn't a bad thing but you have to give the appropriate credit when credit is due.  for example, i work for a software company.  we have done some really cool things but at the foundation of our software is mathmatical algorithum another entity researched, tested, and refined.  I'm fine with our repositioning of their work because we pay to this very day pay them royalties for making use of their work.

i think that is at the heart of why i have such a bad opinion of hackers/homebrewers.  not all, but a lot of what they do isn't their work but really someone elses.  for instance, a friend of mine modded his wii to play dvds.  there is no denying that a wii could play dvds but the difference is nintendo doesn't pay the licence fee to allow that.  ms/sony do.  that's the legality of it, and to me and my over-developed sence of right and wrong, that's also the morality of it.

not that all hacks are illegal or even immoral or unjust, the kinect hacks were cool and even endorced and encouraged by MS.  linux is a really cool concept.  unfortuntly, the most common use of hacking  is to bypass software protections in order to gain access to content.

anyways, we're really far off topic.

NO CD crack - Nope

jailbreak your Iphone or android, WP7. - Nope

download any movies, TV shows, music that you did not purchase. - illegal, immoral, and nope.

Using anything that allowed you to use a device, OS that was not originally intended - nope.

i'm a better person than that, i follow rules simply because it is the right thing to do not just due to fear of consequence.

I have a strong suspicion that the only reason a lot of members pretended to care about the hackers at all was, because they could use it as a smoke screen, or a change the subject defense. Basically they cared only for the curtain they could use to cover up Sony's abject failures. Not for the persons that were behind that curtain. The same holds true for making scapegoats out of Anonymous as a whole. The fact that this thread isn't getting more traction is pretty damning proof that it was all about defending Sony rather then a legitimate greivance against the criminals.

By the way I find it interesting that a group is taking credit, and the obvious responsibility for the attack. That shows a very real lack of fear on their part. They are really unimpressed by Sony, or criminal prosecution. Talk about a real sense of Sony being impotent. Were they this good, or was Sony just using crap hardware/software.