GeoHot Was High When He Posted PS3 Hack
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I'm not claiming to be a legal expert and I can easily be wrong about this, but I'd imagine the terms of service with any piece of hardware states that you can't fuck around with the coding and then post said fuckery on the internet.chexlltim said:
If nothing else, according to this article, it was enough to get Sony to sue him.
dogstile said:
Pretty much, yeah. Stereotypes had to come from somewhere, as do stock characters.
That is the kind of thinking that leads to bullshit rationalizations that allows a person to think it's okay to just do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whoever he wants, in whatever manner he wants, for whatever reason he want without regard to the effects or consequences his actions may have on others. That is the kind of thinking that leads to thinking that everything is supposed to just go his way and nothing bad is supposed to ever happen to him. That is the insular, conceited, self-centered, self-absorbed thinking of a person who is mentally 5-years old, or less. That is 100% selfish, child-like, douche-bag asshole thinking.Greg Tito said:
GeoHot, you are not the only one living on this planet. Grow up and get over yourself.
I do understand that mentality though. Although I can't really judge much without knowing the exact context.Vault101 said:
This really isn't news so much as mud-raking. We've had several presidents who've used drugs as well. So please, Escapist Magazine, stop trying to "break a story". This is at the very heart of what's wrong with journalism and it's a large part of why we often don't like journalists. It's none of my business what this guy does on his own. The only thing he's done that deserves my attention is crack the iPhone and the PS3. This other stuff is what sleazy lawyers bring into a courtroom to paint a picture. I can paint my own picture.
I wasn't going to release the PS3's master key, until I got high.
I was going to exploit it for my own personal use, but then I got high.
Now Sony is suing my ass, and I know why.
Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high...
I was going to exploit it for my own personal use, but then I got high.
Now Sony is suing my ass, and I know why.
Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high...
Tshk, tshk. You should put a bit more effort in your flamebait.KeyMaster45 said:
But if I understand this correctly we have a very gifted adolescent who considers his talents an excuse to act like a twat.
How... original. And news-worthy. Especially news-worthy.
Running a red light when no one is around? Not really unacceptable, though I would not say it was good either. But bragging about it as if that makes him a philosophical genius? That's more what I take issue with here.Grey Day for Elcia said:
Terms of service/EULAs are already somewhat unstable legal ground because you have to agree to them AFTER you buy a given product (and if you opt out, then you lose the product you paid for), so it is hard to say if this is illegal or not. The only absolutely true thing I can say about it is that it is a gray area.RJ 17 said:
I remember the first time I jailbroke an iPhone, part way through the process a picture of some random pre-pubescent twat [http://www.iclarified.com/images/news/5497/20242/20242-500.jpg] unexpectedly appeared on my screen. I said out loud, "who the fuck is this?" Then a couple of weeks later I found out who he was, and that he's about thirty times as smart as I am. That was... humbling.
On topic: meh.
On topic: meh.
I have a lot of respect for him managing to jailbreak both the iPhone and the PS3. The drug use makes it even more impressive, but is actually quite common amongst quite a few people the media would typically call hackers.
To everyone saying he opened the doors to piracy, this is true, but he didn't do it for that reason. Hackers want the freedom to install whatever they can on computer systems they have bought with their own money. Some users might install illegally copied software, but there's a lot of free/open source software out there that people want to install, and DRM prevents this. The PS3 in particular was marketed as a home computer that you could run Linux from & also play games at the same time; a lot of people bought it for this functionality.
Basically, at the end of the day, the PS3 is a computer, and you should be free to install whatever the fuck you like on it, regardless of potential consequences for piracy. This is generally true in the eyes of the law, and definitely in ethics.
To everyone saying he opened the doors to piracy, this is true, but he didn't do it for that reason. Hackers want the freedom to install whatever they can on computer systems they have bought with their own money. Some users might install illegally copied software, but there's a lot of free/open source software out there that people want to install, and DRM prevents this. The PS3 in particular was marketed as a home computer that you could run Linux from & also play games at the same time; a lot of people bought it for this functionality.
Basically, at the end of the day, the PS3 is a computer, and you should be free to install whatever the fuck you like on it, regardless of potential consequences for piracy. This is generally true in the eyes of the law, and definitely in ethics.
I never really knew much about the guy to begin with, but from this article he just comes off as a total asshole (as many many others have said).
You follow the law for a reason. Saying that you ignoring it because "Laws are something made by assholes" just makes me want to strangle you. Get over yourself.
Then again I have little respect for people who smoke or do drugs to begin with. But seriously, fuck this guy.
You follow the law for a reason. Saying that you ignoring it because "Laws are something made by assholes" just makes me want to strangle you. Get over yourself.
Then again I have little respect for people who smoke or do drugs to begin with. But seriously, fuck this guy.
I think he meant his morals, not the clowns in charge. Do I need to remind you of simple thing such as gay marriage and how it's not legal despite it being fairly common sense that it should be? There's nothing wrong with saying "fuck you rules" when they're wrong, or at the very least you see them as wrong. Not that I'm commenting on the hacking in question; just in general that's a good way to live, in my opinion.mad825 said:
Okay? So the dude was lit up. Doesn't make him any less of a public douche. A bullshit creed that amounts to "if it's good for me, I'll do it, regardless of what it means" that would have Ayn Rand beaming with egotistical asshole pride still makes no sense if anyone other than the individual in question is involved.