VanityGirl said:
While I can appreciate that you wrote all that... You wrote an eloquent post to a joke post.
Actually,
VanityGirl, you made a very relevant point, regardless of whether it was a
joke post, that some of us might think, on account of one technicality or another, that we are currently out of reach of this kind of corporate injustice. I simply took the opportunity you provided to point out that, no, we are certainly not.
I will say, though, that bringing up geohot wasn't a good idea. He's in trouble for jailbreaking a console and showing the masses how to do it. That's a little different than me saying "BioWare are the suckz".
The circumstances of
geohot vs. Sony are complex;[footnote]edited to insert this very semicolon.[/footnote] discussion of whether or not he was right in jailbreaking the PS3 is out of the scope of this dialogue,[footnote]I'll only opine (because I can do so here) that consumers should have the right to do what they want with the hardware they own, that the DMCA oversteps the spirit of the law, and that the PS3's ability to run an alternative OS was a feature that was later arbitrarily rescinded by Sony, so I, personally, see
geohot's jailbreak as justified.[/footnote] but the Sony vs.
geohot [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_America_v._George_Hotz] suit in progress isn't what I was indicating to be an example of Sony's dickery. That Sony has threatened to
sue anyone who possesses or distributes the jailbreaking information, including, potentially,
anyone who can be traced by IP to geohot's webpage serves as an excellent example.
It is not possible to make it a crime[footnote]Not an enforceable crime, at least.[/footnote] to visit a website (no matter the contents), since a browser can be inadvertently linked to websites to easily without user consent or being made aware of the ramifications for doing so. (For heaven's sake, much porn on the netz remains accessible without some kind of content-warning gateway).
This is not new. From Sony's Nestlé [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal].[footnote]Proof solid that not all evil multi-national corporations are American, or recent.[/footnote]
And PS: I don't think
BioWare are the suckz, or really, blaspheming any corporate entity, is a suspension-worthy offense on
any forum (once again, presuming the
EA Devil comment was the extent of his infraction). And it is now the consequence of greatest concern in this affair.[footnote]Just as scary is the quantity of posts on this very thread opining that the moderation enacted was justified.[/footnote] At most, probation might be warranted as a warning to
keep his criticism civil. I could
sooner accept his posts surpassed the maximum bad spelling and grammar threshold, but that's because I hold myself to such standards.
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