if your not going to read my points and comment on them there is not point in going forward in this argument. Sorry. I already posted a response to what you just wrote. look up a few post.

Did you miss the not trade secrets... and not allowed to take him to court for it post?

Hooray though, the big company took someone to trial for something that wasn't illegal and got him to sign a paper to not touch their products because he didn't want to be in a protracted legal battle with a multinational corproation.

If you actually think that's a good thing... I don't even know where one would start.

Looks like nothing happened today after all :)

No idea what we were all worried about xD

Odd, he did get taken to court and agreed to a deal that sounds awfully similar to a non-disclosure contract that an employee would have to sign.  

Oh right, it's not a trade secret because you said so.  Gotcha.  ;)

I do think it's a good thing for Sony.  He can't outright Jailbreak any of their forseeable products without facing legitimate consequences.  He obviously is intelligent enough to Jailbreak just about anything, so atleast on a security side it's a minor sense of security.

Why not get into a protracted legal battle with Sony?  If he is completely in the right and has nothing to fear?  Why not?   A few court dates? 

Sony could have made things a lot more uncomfortable for him.  The point was they didn't want him cracking their products and releasing trade secrets to the public (Who isn't at his level).    That's why Sony took him to court. That is what they set out to accomplish and they ultimately reached that goal. 

People who hate Sony will still hate Sony after that, most logical types will realize this happens constantly with large corporations in a variety of manners it's not a big deal and never was.

It wasn't unplayable as you said... I doubt you played it during the time either. You are going on two forum posters opinions that it was unplayable. I'm going on what a couple of friends were saying... that it was in fact playable. 

i own a ps3 and played it so i was speaking from experience... the issues were a widespread problem affecting my friends also

edit: obviously when i say "unplayable" im not saying that the game cannot be loaded up and that you can't get online im actually saying that the cheating reached a point where trying to play competitively against people fairly became very difficult because the cheating was so prevelant 

Just wait some. Given Sony's previous practice we may learn of it next week.

No... it's not a trade secret because the law says so.

And again, people generally settle when facing a multimillion dollar coperation because said multi-million dollar corporation just tends to extend the shit out of lawsuits until the person they are sueing is bankrupt and has to give up anyway since lawyers aren't guranteed in civil trials.

It's basically the largest failing of our justice system.  Big companys can fuck over little guys and small buisnesses just by tying things up legistlativly.

Please show it.   I'll wait for definitive proof.