ITT: We fail to understand the difference between being sued and being subpoenaed.
Article title is misleading. 820K is shipped, not sold. Its actual sell-through is estimated to be a fraction of that number.
:-(
@darkride66- "You stole secure codes"
To steal something, someone has to hold ownership of it first. Despite the best efforts of corporate America, you can't own a number.
"Also, Hotz is only one defendant in this case. It doesn't all revolve around him."
Well, yes, but he's the only one Sony has brought any actual evidence against. Marcan, Bushing, Sven, and John Does #1-99 are just footnotes at this poi...
"Kindergarten mistakes that took 3 years to find."
The complete bush-league incompetence of the mistake is not a reference to how easy it was for hackers to find but to how easily Sony could and should have prevented it.
Basic layered security metaphor: Pretend there is a safe, bolted to the ground, and it has a keypad, a card reader, and a retinal scanner. To unlock you safe, you need to input a 60-digit alphanumeric password, swipe a specially...
You could always import. PS3 games aren't region-locked.
:-O!!!!
"Human rights shouldn't have to be justified."
Precisely. People don't have to justify their right to run custom firmware. Sony very much has to justify taking that right away.
Oh, awesome.
"What is a crime, however, is distributing code which Sony own the copyright for without permission"
Geohot didn't distribute anything that Sony 'owned'. The encryption key he posted is a number, and you cannot 'own' a number. Companies have tried to do so before -- and they have failed in every case that actually went to court because it amounts to saying 'I own the number 218423673532853294593457345345 8, and if you post it online, you ow...
"I just live by the idea that if I have to justify something, I probably shouldn't do it. And that's what you have here...someone justifying something they know they shouldn't be doing."
Yes, and Sony is trying to justify why they can arbitrarily take away the rights of consumers to modify property that we have bought and paid for.
Fortunately, the standards of evidence for winning a case are much stronger than those required to obt...
Whoa, they gave Beat some kind of steroid milkshake or something. Love it.
"you fool, the judge granted the TRO and the case is staying in california."
Right, the judge did that three days *after* I made the comment that it hadn't been decided yet. So, it pretty clearly hadn't been decided yet.
"so LOL @ you for being a moron."
Lol at you for not understanding the basic concept of time.
"we'll always have to wonder what would that have looked like if the Wii were capable of HD"
something something dolphin emulator something.
"Meh, Mod it, Retro" nearly made me spit out my drink.
"we just had a new kirby game"
Epic Yarn was not a Kirby game. It was a completely unrelated platformer that Nintendo put Kirby in for brand cred.
Also, this game was in development first.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Means nothing.
I mean, Hoshi no Kirby was on the release calendar for years and it's not like that game is ever going to come ouOH MY GOD
Good grief, it's the Kirby game that's been in the works since the Gamecube, back from the dead.
"AAA games could come out for $1 and that would not stop the pathetic losers from pirating it because they are just that pathetic"
The mistake you are making is that you are assuming that all pirates are some monolithic, homogeneous bloc that you can apply crude generalizations to.
Are there cheapskates who would not buy a game even if it was one dollar? Sure. But those people are a lost cause anyway. They cannot be converted into a valuable cus...
"the more expensive games might become"
If people are pirating games, the solution is to make purchasing games legitimately more convenient, not less.
It sure was nice back when lists of upcoming Wii games involved concrete Western release dates. :-/