In case you didn't know it, Sony is suing its Sony Playstation customers. It also has requested the right to view personally identifiable information of who has visited a hackers website, presumably to go after them as well.
Sony says the hackers have circumvented their game copy protection and should be held accountable for the actions of all of their customers who have illegally copied Sony Playstation games. What the hackers have done is circumvented the software restrictions on the Sony Playstation 3 so that 3rd party software can be run on it. Has this enabled the pirating of games? As far as I can tell, yes. But to me that is like saying that Ford should be held accountable for every car that goes over 75Mph. Ford enables that ability, although there is no where in the US I am aware of where more than 75Mph is legal.
Sony says the hackers have circumvented their game copy protection and should be held accountable for the actions of all of their customers who have illegally copied Sony Playstation games. What the hackers have done is circumvented the software restrictions on the Sony Playstation 3 so that 3rd party software can be run on it. Has this enabled the pirating of games? As far as I can tell, yes. But to me that is like saying that Ford should be held accountable for every car that goes over 75Mph. Ford enables that ability, although there is no where in the US I am aware of where more than 75Mph is legal.
Sony should worry more about making better products for better prices. Console makers take a loss on the consoles and make up for it on the licensing fees for the software. If people are using the consoles to do something other than play games then they may not be licensing games and the console makers take a bigger net loss on the boxes. The whole piracy argument is not the full story, and may not be the main story.
I will not be buying another Sony product unless they drop this lawsuit. They made the choice to sell the boxes for under-market prices and should deal with the consequences. There are already laws against software piracy. Fight to have the existing laws enforced better instead, Sony.
Please choose to buy from someone other than Sony when presented with a choice. Their actions seem excessively greedy. They are suing someone for doing what they will with a device they bought and Sony are fighting to invade the privacy of unsuspecting people who visited the hackers website to learn about it. Let me reiterate that these people may not have pirated anything, yet Sony belives they are entited to know who these people are.
This is all my opinion.... so don't come and sue me too Sony - please. I do not own a Sony Playstation, definitely have not 'hacked' one, and do not have skin in this lawsuit. Except that I care that Sony is invading the privacy of the visitors of the hacker's website... and the hacker's privacy too... and hate to see the consumer's right to do whatever they want with the device they bought being trampled on.
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