PlayStation Hacker is Glad He Doesn't Have PSN

[jalek]

Rather than resecuring the system (and apparently the network), Sony chose the RIAA/MPAA approach. While laying off developers, they were posting openings like Senior Corporate Counsel and Senior Paralegal for Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection.

It's not like they could've used unique key registration systems or something commonly in use, not when the courts can be used instead.

 

[techguy378]

Hopefully the credit card companies and banks will get these hackers arrested. What they've done is illegal. This is a very black and white case. Hackers stole credit card information. Regardless of whether or not they choose to do anything with it it is still a crime.

There's one thing that not one single person seems to get through their thick scull. If the ability to run Linux is not listed on the box (it never was) then this makes it a free bonus, not an advertised feature. Sony had every right to remove this free bonus without any sort of legal repercussion.

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]techguy378[/nom]Hopefully the credit card companies and banks will get these hackers arrested. What they've done is illegal. This is a very black and white case. Hackers stole credit card information. Regardless of whether or not they choose to do anything with it it is still a crime.There's one thing that not one single person seems to get through their thick scull. If the ability to run Linux is not listed on the box (it never was) then this makes it a free bonus, not an advertised feature. Sony had every right to remove this free bonus without any sort of legal repercussion.[/citation]
If Sony has the right to interfere with the device users have bought, that means the users don't own the device, they practically only rent it.
If users own the device, then they can do whatever they wish with it, including teaching others how to hack it.
This can go into a philosophical debate of what's right and wrong, what's owned and what's not.
It can be seen as ok to rent a device for the sake of controlling piracy and cheaters, but just advertised as such, not advertised as owning it. People can vote with their wallets anyway. If there are people not satisfied with the current supply of entertainment, some entertainment provider will step in and fill the gap.
Also it can be seen as ok to not give corporations this much power, because then they will go for the easy buck, controlled environment, dependence on their service/rent, little progress, enough power to lower the price at will and squash any competition without giving them the chance, etc. One way of combating it: owning what one buys and using it for whatever purpose they wish, including building a new OS and new games system on it.
A bunch of viewpoints of right and wrong, freedoms and rights, as I said.
What is seen as fully wrong by most is, though, that the hackers that broke in and stole the data did a bad thing.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]techguy378[/nom]Hopefully the credit card companies and banks will get these hackers arrested. What they've done is illegal. This is a very black and white case. Hackers stole credit card information. Regardless of whether or not they choose to do anything with it it is still a crime.There's one thing that not one single person seems to get through their thick scull. If the ability to run Linux is not listed on the box (it never was) then this makes it a free bonus, not an advertised feature. Sony had every right to remove this free bonus without any sort of legal repercussion.[/citation]
It wasn't in the box, but it was advertised on their website, at the console presentation. At launch Sony said how their console was much more than a gaming console, unlike it's competitors, because of the otheros feature.

 

[djsting]

[citation][nom]the associate[/nom]I think it's safe to say your comparison is flawed, it would be more along the lines of the skimpy dressed woman taunting the rapist that he could never get her so ha ha to him. Obviously it's still terribly wrong, and I'd still feel compelled to have the rapist tortured and/or slaughtered for their crime, but I think you get my point.[/citation]


this^ I blame stupid victims. A flirty woman getting raped in no way compares to "hack me I dare you" (not a direct quote of course). 1 is a victim of circumstance, the other is a victim of stupidity...and the price of stupidity is pain and suffering. I agree that these hackers give the whole community a bad rep, but Sony basically did the 1930's equivalent of calling Al Capone and saying "I dare you to shoot me". Daring a criminal to break the law is like daring a mechanic to fix a car....it's what they do.

 

[eddieroolz]

See, a respectable hacker. Not like the "hackers" that steal information.