As GeoHot/George Hotz continues to fight his legal battle against Sony for daring to restore functionality to Sony PS3s that Sony had deleted, he's apparently been able to raise a bunch of money for his legal fund through donations. That's nice to see. He's also put up this amusing (and seriously NSFW) rap about the lawsuit:
Seems like he didn't need copyright as an incentive to create that one, huh? Anyway, what struck me as the most prescient statement in the linked article above, however, was this line:
"Sony tried to sue a guy for getting his AIBO to do non-Sony approved tricks, making it apparent that they don’t really care about piracy, they care about control."
We actually wrote about Sony's response to AIBO hacks a decade ago, and it's absolutely true. Copyright is supposed to be about incentives to create. But it's generally been twisted into a tool for control against "stuff we don't like."
What I don't get is how Sony can constantly pull stunts like this, from the rootkit fiasco on down, yet latch on to AllVid and demand that cable companies open up their services to 3rd-party boxes. Seems like Sony is just asking big cable to cede control over to them, rather than actually "be more open." How can you trust a request to be more open from Sony?
Oh snap! I just put together a series of videos on how to do network penetration testing using some packet sniffing tools and common sense! Now I'll be responsible for everything anybody ever does with this...in perpetuity! Tell my girlfriend to water my plants.
"I'm just trying to put Other OS back, Sony sued me. Some guy made his robot dog do tricks, Sony sued him. I'm just trying to own my own stuff." (Paraphrase)
Sony own the software the consumers don't.
The software license (EULU) states that Sony can remove the other os feature.
Too bad.
Don't like it?
Guess what it's stated on the back on the box when you buy it.
Don't like it?
Too bad go buy a computer and quite whining over a OS,
and remember YOU DON'T OWN THE SOFTWARE yea yea you own the hardware but not the software.
and remember YOU DON'T OWN THE SOFTWARE yea yea you own the hardware but not the software.
What is kind of ironic about your statement is that the "Other OS" being used in a lot of cases is GPL/Linux which is software expressly licensed to allow you to modify it as you see fit.
Problem is that their enforcement of the EULA in this manner contravenes consumer protection laws in some countries... You can't advertise that a product does something and then take that away.
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Sony sued them into bankruptcy even though Sony lost every lawsuit against them. They will try the same tactic with Geohot.
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;-P
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How many IP lawsuits aren't about control of your product?
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And yet Sony is involved with AllVid
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Huh...
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The geek is strong with this one......
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Yeah, real ill intent there.
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Must be an extinct color, like "Indian Red" or "Flesh"
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Guilty of speaking in Gracechurch St.
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The software license (EULU) states that Sony can remove the other os feature.
Too bad.
Don't like it?
Guess what it's stated on the back on the box when you buy it.
Don't like it?
Too bad go buy a computer and quite whining over a OS,
and remember YOU DON'T OWN THE SOFTWARE yea yea you own the hardware but not the software.
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What is kind of ironic about your statement is that the "Other OS" being used in a lot of cases is GPL/Linux which is software expressly licensed to allow you to modify it as you see fit.
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America is the only major country where consumers are not protected. isn't capitalism great! ;)
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