yogcraft user name blue xephos.
These two friends Simon and Lewis play Minecraft for the first time and it's brilliantly hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
haha he had a chance when EA offered to buy it from him. he was like.. no way, mang!
too bad he did the same w/ the iphone and it was deemed legal.
do you even realize that the CFW isn't meant to pirate games. Even w/ the actual code you can't literally pirate games. AND you can't modify the code to allow for pirated games
You'd need a whole new code.
Of course you didn't know that...whelp
haha Sony screwed themselves with a single dollar. I don't use this term very often, but that is an EPIC FAIL
also geohot had to have solicited the donation, via a link or whatever. Since there was no solicitation, geohot didn't break the law.
I guess Sony didn't get the memo about that lil piece of law lol
actually, it's only illegal if he solicited the donation, so I take it back. he can take donations from whomever he wants as long as he doesn't ask for them.
Sony just made a dumb dumb move. Like literally dumb.
Sorry, but this sounds fishy as hell. It's clear that Sony needs all the help they can get w/ this case. It's underhanded to even attempt to do something like this. Geohot and his people in general know better than to take donations. And if he did take donations (highly unlikely), he deserves to go down for profiting off of it.
If he didn't take any money, than I think it works against Sony and shows how manipulative they can be...
The legal ...
lol that's the way you wanna spin it, go ahead
yup, which will make it so much easier to win against Sony.
The tinkering of the GUI is one of the charges that Sony is bringing up against Geohot.
The security keys of the software is another issue, however. Unfortunately for Sony, Geohot has already won this case w/ the hacked security keys on the iPhone:
"allow iPhone owners to use their phones with applications that are not available from Apple's store, and to unlock their iPhones for use with unapproved carriers."
That application ...
it's not illegal to hack a GUI, FYI
XMB is a GUI and unfortunately it's not illegal to hack a GUI, closed or not.
And as long as it's not for profit, it's not illegal to distribute code for a GUI because it's simply not illegal. The same goes w/ the iPhone OS. Geohot won that case, if you didn't know.
The defense will most likely bring up the case of OtherOS which was on the PS3 for YEARS. This clunky version of Linux was able to run emulators. The defense will probabl...
Wow this is an old-ass franchise...honestly, I never played the original game. The first Bullfrog title I played on PC was the original Populous...never got around to Syndicate. Is it any good?
i'd be happy if this got the nod for goty. it's a genre that seems to be ignored and w/ its customization its has such a wide application
I would agree if he were selling the altered code at a profit. But since he's not, there's no money being taken away from Sony.
Again, if he sold it at a profit, it would be downright illegal, but since he's not, Sony is not obligated to consider it a threat.
anyway what's done is done. even if sony manages to win this case it won't mean anything this generation. the exploit is out there. what it will do is affect the direction of con...
your analogy doesn't fly because being an accessory to murder is a felony
geohot isn't doing anything against the law
what this guy does is that he made the gun the murderer used to kill someone with
does that make him a criminal? do people sue smith and wesson because their gun killed someone they loved?
however "wrong" piracy might be, the US government protects the innocent from being lumped in w/ the gu...
why does irepbtown need to give a better analogy, yours is the one that sucks.
geohot isn't giving "drugs," the distribution sites are the ones "distributing the illegal stuff (hacked games, etc).
all geohot is doing is providing the little plastic baggies that you can distribute the "drugs" in
but, as he has said before, it's also used for other applications such as homebrew
whats next? sue...
did you just make that up?
daemon tools is the equivalent of this on the PC, yet that mounting software is in absolutely no danger of being deemed illegal.
it runs illegally obtained "hacked" software
geohot's tool is no different. but w/ no software distribution infringement, there's no law being broken.
i suppose sony could argue that napster is an independently run program that lost in court, but then ag...
BlackKnight, I completely agree. He owns that console. Just as anyone would own their PC.
1) His hack doesn't allow for piracy anymore than OtherOS, which was on the console for YEARS and could allow emulation of "little games" like Castlevania. Sony is just as much at fault for having that software available on the PS3.
2) He's not pirating anything. Guess what folks. It's not illegal to hack. It's illegal to alter code to...