The only people who should be dissapointed are those using the PS3 for research purposes, but I’m working under the assumption that they were intelligent enough not to update the firmware. The amount of people that used otherOS more than to just show friends what they could do is no doubt quite small.
I think ‘hackin’ is an apt term considering they’re extracting personal information from employees and posting them.
So you really think hackers were doing this for altruistic reasons huh?
I use my ps3 to play games and watch movies, if I wanted to get into computer shit I’d get a regular computer. That was my thought process when I bought the system and I’m pretty sure that was for a lot of other people as well. I just hope this hacking shit doesn’t effect my online gaming time.
I think the whole issue lies in what each argument takes to be implicit.
You take the right to use your PS3 however you see fit to be implicitly granted by your purchase of said system.
Rock-BoS looks at that and says: nuh-uh - not if it potentially harms other people’s right to use it unimpeded by illicit endeavors. He see the implicit understanding that using PSN is a privilege, not a right. Further, he sees continued otherOS usage as a right. But it is a right that comes at the cost of PSN and new game updates.
The whole problem hinges on the fact that Sony only provided otherOS capabilities due to their belief that the PS3 was, and always would be unhackable. Thanks to the criminal activities of one of their own employees, and his leaking private code to the hackers in question - which, incidentally makes them complicit in the code theft (if you think not, good luck trying to convince a judge that distributing stolen goods isn’t in fact a crime) - the reasonable expectations on Sony’s part, of a secure environment in which to have otherOS, is no longer the case.
So then. Does Sony have the reasonable expectation of a secure environment, or should the actions of criminals make THEIR security and property rights void?
I see a whole lot of complaining about how Sony is violating consumer property rights, but very little defense of Sony’s property rights, regarding the stolen code and PSN security.
As I see it.
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They are still getting hit, and anonymous has stated they are going after execs
all i want to know is where is Howard Stringer’s rebuttal diss track? [media=youtube]9iUvuaChDEg"[/media]
Sony’s lead lawyer already has that filed away under:
“Things to use to demonstrate to the jury why I am asking for the severely harsh sentencing that I am.”
As I see it.
SONY being gay again? yet another why consoles suck
PC gaming for life kthxbai die stupid worthless consoles with stupid worthless homosexual jrpgs
Why didn’t Geohot form a company and release the information through that?
You only say this because of your obsession with Japanese Rape-Sim games, which are PC based.
As I see it.
touche sir touche
actually PC gaming is superior because I can flawlessly multitask by jerking off to porn, browsing the interwebs, and play solitaire AT THE SAME TIME. whereas jerking off in the living room to a console just feels kinda weird.
PC GAMING 4 LYFE
These are the type of games Jie plays.
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Geohot settled with Sony, and got himself a job.
Now fellow hackers are pissed as fuck for not fighting the fight
Especially since they donated to his legal fund, which is now no longer needed cuz he’s working for the man.
Good for him 
and lol @ the sony haters 
He never got a job. He got told that if he even so much as tries to hack any Sony product ever again, Sony will slap him with a $10,000 fine for each instance, and $250,000 fines for telling anyone else how to hack a Sony product.
And from the looks of some of the legal documents, it’s most likely he didn’t use the donations he received to hire additional lawyers. It looks more likely he used the donation money to pay for a settlement.