He did all of that. So what are you talking about than. I did read your post all of it. I didn't even post a triad response to you I posted the facts that you were missing, that he already did what you wanted him to do.

You read my metophore. Geo may not have done anything illegal himself. But he broke the store window (Security on PS3), he knew that by breaking the security that others would rob the store (Sony). He is so intelligent , how could anyone believe he didn't realize that by releasing his hack that others would use it for piracy?

I'm not saying GeoHotz is soully responsable or a criminal. But his actions lead to crimes being committed and he was obviously aware they would be. He broke into the store (PS3) and made it possible for theives to steal from that store (PS3).

What you said was radiculous. Kantor is absolutely right. Thats like saying its the stores fault for being robbed and as such nobody should make anything in the future or own any possesions because somebody might steal them. It makes no sense, how is it the retailers fault that some punk broke into their store and allowed hundreds to loot it?

By your logic we should be in the stone age, heck not even the stone age they still had wives and huts. Nobody should have anything to their name. Heck if a guy gets murdered its his fault for existing.

He never did anything to anyones property but his own. He did not steal anyhting so your analogy does not really make sense. There is no way to spin it, what he did was perfectly legal and perfectly fine and something that has been done since electronics have been around.

No thats not true, he provided the jail break hack info to everyone with a computer so that they could break Sony's security on their systems and run pirated software. So my metaphor stands. Had he only hacked his console that would be one thing but he hacked everyones consoles by releasing the hack and he brought down Sony's security system.

So yes he broke the window. Also he knew by providing everyone with this jail break that people would use it to pirate(Steal from the store)

Also I never said he stole anything, my metaphor was clear he took what the store owed him and had promised him. However in doing so he broke Sony's security allowing others to steal from Sony. He provided the hack and essentially broke Sony's security system.

There;s no way to spin it , any way you look at it Geo is not 100% innocent.

Here's a brick. If you throw it at your neighbour's window, you can break it.

I hope you don't do anything illegal with that piece of info I just gave you.

Almost right on except its more like

You see a man trying to break into a house, then you say "Here's a brick if you throw it at the window you can break it"

Or at the 2011 Vancouver riots "Here's a brick. If you throw it at your neighbour's window, you can break it.".

He knew that the person was going to throw the brick through the window if he provided it!

Just as long as nobody tell him he could just pick up random debris and throw at the said window.

He disabled piracy as well as he could in his firmware. What do you expect him to do? If sony cant protect its sytems against hackers how is geohot supposed too? Have you read up on the specifics of this whole incident? The firmware he released specificaly did not allow piracy. He is anti piracy. All he did was tell others how to get homebrew going on their own ps3s. He did not hack the psn or any games or any one elses ps3.  He took nothing. He created something, you act as if he took something out of the ps3. He created a a program that adjust the firmware on the ps3. There is no store analogy just look at the facts as is. There is no moral dilema here. He midified something he owned that affected no one else. All the piracy and psn hacks were done by others people should focus on and complain about them. Not somebody who only did what was in his rights of woning that equiptment. Stop trying to spread the blame to him. If you go down that route than you must blame Sony and anyone who makes any tool that is remotely related to hacking, you can't just decide to only blame one of the tool makers can you? How is that fair? Best just to blame those with direct involvement. This is probably why sony settled, they realoised he did no wrong and they could find nothing wrong he did. I have yet to find any case where it is illegal or wrong to hack your own equiptment, I tried I really did. There just is no case out there.

without geohot's tools would all of the resulting hacks have happened? if not how the hell is he not to blame? the point at the end of the day no matter how much dancing around you do is that this all happened because he did not keep his hacks and thereby the results of his hacks to himself here he even apologises to the ps community for his bs :

http://gamercrave.com/ps3-hacker-geohot-on-lost-linux-support-im-sorry/2349/

an extract from that site :

"Sony has only pinned the change on “security concerns,” but hacker George “Geohot” Hotz, who released the first-ever PS3 hack earlier this year (preceded by several high-profile iPhone jailbreaks), which could ultimately allow piracy or other nefarious uses of the consoles, believes he played a role:

First off, I want to apologize to all the people who use Linux on their PS3. Before releasing, I weighed the pros and cons, and considered the possibility of an impact on OtherOS support" 

you said some nonsense in your post about "He midified something he owned that affected no one else." <--- that is wrong if his actions affected no one else then we wouldn't be talking about him would we? quote from the article above "Before releasing" thats what this is about... him releasing hacks that then affect all of the users of psn and ps3s in general 

he wouldn't last as that is not his way of life

changing your lifestyle is not an easy job

he will be like bill gates and make his own thing