-Samurai- said:
I hope that one of them screws up and gets caught, and in turn, rats out more of them.
When you mess with the PS3s software, you're not "tinkering with something you own", you're tinkering with something you're leasing. Huge difference.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lease
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buy
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/own
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vest
Might want to check your English. If I 'leased' a PS3, I would only have the right to use it for a certain amount of time and/or for a specific purpose. When I 'buy' a PS3 console, I am then vested ownership in that specific console. At that point, I have power and/or mastery over that console, unless and until I decide to vest ownership to another person or entity.
In the instance that Sony in inferring, the ONLY way that I could be pirating their console would be if I were to build a device, or use a pre-made device, such as a computer, and load the entire operating system for the console onto that device, WITHOUT having first purchased a console, and/or distributing said device as my own invention.
Using the 'Means to an end' reasoning for this arguement is patently false. That's why, despite all the violent deaths caused by guns every year, gun and fire arms manufacturers don't get sued out of existence.
Legally, Sony doesn't have a leg to stand on here. But, the court system is no longer about right or wrong. It's about procedure, jurisprudence, and the process of law. Bleem is a perfect example of Sony's modus operandi in this. Bleem released a Boot Disk that you could use to play PlayStation (PSOne) games on your Sega Dreamcast. You had to BUY the Dreamcast AND BUY the PSOne games, so technically, no piracy was taking place. In lawsuit after lawsuit, the makers of Bleem were found not culpable for the charges Sony brought against them. However, Bleem as a company no longer exists, because Sony sued them out of existence, even though Sony was legally in the wrong every time.
So, as far as I'm concerned, Anon can go right on screwing Sony over just like they're trying to screw over every one of us.