8th February 2011, 8:36 AM
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/...3-hack.ars
It all started with someone finding out the actual authentication key for PS3 systems, with the goal of fully customizable PS3 and eventually restoring Linux to it. I'm all for that, but Sony's lawsuit frames it as an attack on "their" consoles (which they stop being the moment someone pays for them and takes them home). After a bunch of lawsuits, it comes down to this. Sony is threatening to sue anyone who's ever posted that key online.
They must be joking. Getting information out of the internet is like getting pee out of a pool, it'll never happen.
It all started with someone finding out the actual authentication key for PS3 systems, with the goal of fully customizable PS3 and eventually restoring Linux to it. I'm all for that, but Sony's lawsuit frames it as an attack on "their" consoles (which they stop being the moment someone pays for them and takes them home). After a bunch of lawsuits, it comes down to this. Sony is threatening to sue anyone who's ever posted that key online.
They must be joking. Getting information out of the internet is like getting pee out of a pool, it'll never happen.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)