Well as most of you would know the PS3 was hacked a few months ago by George Hotz (GeoHot).
I beleive SONY have gone to far with this hacking buisness, i think he did nothing rly wrong, he doesnt like or has pirated anything, all he did was Jailbreak a PS3, SONY got pissed and now his life is now spireling out of controll. i REALLY want SONY to back down and/or Hotz to win this case. But SONY will win sadly as they are a massive company.

Wat do you all think of this whole thing?

I think that GeoHot went too far. He did do a copyright infringement and Sony has every right to believe he went over the line.

I dont care for the hacker it was his fault HE made mw2 unplayable and cod4 too. I hope sony crush the cunt for all the money he has got.

I dont care for the hacker it was his fault HE made mw2 unplayable and cod4 too. I hope sony crush the cunt for all the money he has got.

joeboe1998

he had nothing to do with MW2 being unplayable, he isnt that sort of hacker.

I believe that from factory default we should be able to do what we like with our device at root level instead of this silly 'you own the hardware, we own the software' stuff.

I believe that from factory default we should be able to do what we like with our device at root level instead of this silly 'you own the hardware, we own the software' stuff.

BRooNiE

I agree totally.

His hacks that he exposed ruined mw2 because of the jailbreak. But I agree with broonie we should be able to tweak it to get mods but not get things that ruin games

Agreed with Broonie.

When you buy a "thing", that thing becomes your property. You should be able to do whatever you like with it, as long as you don't break the law.

This is like buying a car and not being allowed to soup it up with nitrous, better tires, better suspension, and tweaked computer settings to get the most performance you can out of it... because you "might" street race with it, or use it as a getaway car when you rob a bank at some point in the future. 99.9999 % of all people that hot-rod cars will never rob bank.

So, the hack just really allows others to break the law. That law isn't even a criminal law, its a civil copyright infraction, at best. I can't understand why a court didn't throw this lawsuit out the second it was filed. Only thing I can see is... the bigger the company, the more money to lobby with, the more favorable the laws are to them, and the more influence over the courts they have. There is nothing "right" about this case at all. Its a pure income-stream protection scheme by Sony. Its leveraging the government to protect their current business model.

The real loser here is everyone. Sony is paying hundreds of thousands of your dollars to nail this ONE guy. Anyone who buys a Sony product is funding that witch-hunt. If you really don't like what Sony is doing, then stop buying all Sony related products. Buy from a company that isn't tromping all over your right to do what you like with _your_ property. I don't care if they claim copyright over the software... no one sues you if you buy a book then proceed to white-out half the words and replace them with "dookie", and yet that book is copyrighted. Once you buy the "thing", its yours to do with as you see fit, as long as you don't break criminal laws with it. Period.

When you buy a "thing", that thing becomes your property. You should be able to do whatever you like with it, as long as you don't break the law........

minecraftblock0

I agree with everything you just said, that is why im on GeoHot's side.