Sony not happy

[bouncingwilf]

Surprised nobody's commented on this one yet http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12171423 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12171423)

Looks like Sony are really grumpy!


Bouncingwilf

[ErikNJ]

Sony should be paying for the free security testing - not suing.

[tgalati4]

Well, there goes my business plan to sell used PS3's with Ubuntu installed.

[mips]

Jailbreaking is legal. Even if Sony wins this one they are going to get nailed from all angles by the community. You deserve what you get.

[WRDN]

Sony should be paying for the free security testing - not suing.

I think the problem is, the hackers not only cracked the PS3 security, but they also made public the key used to sign code.
The hackers have noted that they cracked the PS3 so it could run Linux [again] and homebrew software. While this aim is OK, a side effect of publicising the code signing keys is piracy.

Although I would regard publishing such keys as a criminal offence, there is nothing Sony can do about it now, so a lawsuit will change nothing. This is assuming there is no foolproof way to recognise hacked firmware when logging in to PSN - if this was possible, they could potentially "brick" hacked consoles if they went online.

[NCLI]

I understand why they sue, but they will lose - at least in the US.

[MisterGaribaldi]

Dunno why, but when I read this thread's title, this is the first thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2eBlCpmq4M&NR=1) which popped into my head.

Oh, and frankly I don't care what Sony's mood is. They're a big behemoth of a company that sometimes seems like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

They do put out some good movies, though.

[Dr. C]

This is going to be very interesting as what the hackers did may be perfectly legal in one country and illegal in the next. Sony has sued in California, in the United States, but if one enters the following:
whois fail0verflow.cominto a terminal in Ubuntu one finds out that the hackers are actually based in Spain. So why sue in California if the alleged illegal activity took place somewhere else?

[themarker0]

Didn't the USA recently make a law making jailbreaking legal?

http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/26/is-jailbreaking-your-iphone-illegal-not-anymore/

[Quadunit404]

Didn't the USA recently make a law making jailbreaking legal?

http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/26/is-jailbreaking-your-iphone-illegal-not-anymore/

This. Looks like Sony needs to keep more up-to-date with the laws.

Next thing you know Library of Congress is going to declare it's illegal to sue over jailbreaking due to their exemption of jailbreaking in the DMCA :lolflag:

[MonolithImmortal]

This reminds me of the law suit against Jesse Jordan back in 2003 for effectively fixing a localized search engine. People were sharing music on the lan or some such and the RIAA sued for something like $15,000,000. He didn't distribute any copyrighted material, encourage anyone to do so, or make any effort to make the music more available. All he did was build a search engine for his campus.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/06/09/1311255.shtml?tid=123

This is troubling. I hope it backfires.

[piquat]

If Sony hadn't been so eager to completely lock things down these people wouldn't have had an excuse like "we're just doing it to allow people to install other OS's". Not much sympathy for a company that lumps users with legitimate interests in with pirates. Find a way to let them modify the the thing 6 ways to Sunday but doesn't allow them to pirate games. They'll have no legitimate excuse then.