Laws for hacking and pirating etc have all changed what you could do about 10 years ago isn't allowed under law.
Sony removed it because he made videos and shows telling people how he's been hacking the PS3 and how far he got with using the OtherOS feature.
That was there to allow people to use it for homebrew Yellowdog lnuix was homebrew Geohot killed that home brew on the spot.
Ask those devs if they are happy about that.
Hacking an Iphone isn't allowed either, it comes down to the patent owner if they want to sue or not.
Anyway,
When your hauled into court both sides have to have all evidance and on Geohots side he has to pass everything over to Sony so they can work out what they need to do in court, even if you don't like it, don't hand it over and your in contempt and can be kept in jail while the police go and get the evidance.
The court requesting the data to be pulled off the net is what geohot has to comply with if he doesn't then he can be in contempt and be held in jail that is his problem he released the code and programs without thinking of the end results.
As you've just written everyone hosting this code/software only damages his court case it works against him in every way and yet these people don't care because they think they are helping him with his case.
Judges don't need to know something or understand that's what the lawyers are there for, to prove their side's point.
The judges role is to make sure the law is applied correctly and geohot won't like this one bit as he has broken multi US laws.
Sony haven't even sued him as an enabler of piracy on the PS3 yet so there might be another court case after this one.
Law isn't always fair though, and someone will lose.
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Laws for hacking and pirating etc have all changed what you could do about 10 years ago isn't allowed under law.
Sony removed it because he made videos and shows telling people how he's been hacking the PS3 and how far he got with using the OtherOS feature.
That was there to allow people to use it for homebrew Yellowdog lnuix was homebrew Geohot killed that home brew on the spot.
Ask those devs if they are happy about that.
Hacking an Iphone isn't allowed either, it comes down to the patent owner if they want to sue or not.
Anyway,
When your hauled into court both sides have to have all evidance and on Geohots side he has to pass everything over to Sony so they can work out what they need to do in court, even if you don't like it, don't hand it over and your in contempt and can be kept in jail while the police go and get the evidance.
The court requesting the data to be pulled off the net is what geohot has to comply with if he doesn't then he can be in contempt and be held in jail that is his problem he released the code and programs without thinking of the end results.
As you've just written everyone hosting this code/software only damages his court case it works against him in every way and yet these people don't care because they think they are helping him with his case.
Judges don't need to know something or understand that's what the lawyers are there for, to prove their side's point.
The judges role is to make sure the law is applied correctly and geohot won't like this one bit as he has broken multi US laws.
Sony haven't even sued him as an enabler of piracy on the PS3 yet so there might be another court case after this one.
Law isn't always fair though, and someone will lose.
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