Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack 437
markass530 writes with this excerpt from Wired:
"Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or 'distributing' the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. What's more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (PDF) of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube page. The game maker is also demanding that Twitter provide the identities of a host of hackers who first unveiled a limited version of the hack in December."
Might as well get in on the action (Score:5, Informative)
erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B
riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D
pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19
R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17
n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1
K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D
Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70
Re:Might as well get in on the action (Score:5, Funny)
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Am I doing this right? (Score:5, Funny)
riv: Thames
pub: The Royal Oak
R: Me 'arties
n: o spells no
K: mart
Da: da daa da da da daaaa da daa daa daaaaaa
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erk: hidden in a crate labeled "top secret" in a giant government warehouse filled with identical crates.
riv:Mississippi.
pub: a place operated by a publican. Not to be confused with a (re)publican, which is a species of brainless human.
R: harr fiddle de dee, being a pirate is alright with me...
n: e way you want it, that's the way you need it, any way you want it...
K: O.
Da: dweeee da da da Dweee dao!
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Alternate possibilities.
erk: Ask Noah. Be prepared to scoop a lot of petrified animal shit.
riv: Colorado.
pub: Med.
r: The Dread Pirate Roberts never takes prisoners!
n: protons 7, electrons 7, add neutrons to taste.
k: makes a really lousy fake table salt when added to chlorine.
da: DAAAAAAAAA! [youtube.com]
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erk: home planet of Merk.
riv: Ohio.
pub: in my home directory, where I keep shared stuff.
r: me hearties!
n: a partridge in a pear tree.
k: a konstant, equal to 17 in this case.
da: da da dum da dum da da dum
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riv: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
pub: The beast at Tanagra
r: Kadir beneath Mo Moteh
n: Kiteo, his eyes closed
k: Temba, his arms wide open
da: Temba, at rest
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When the walls fell?
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When the walls fell!
Re:Might as well get in on the action (Score:5, Funny)
Oh see how irresponsible you are, now it'll be easier than ever to find it with google!
Re:Might as well get in on the action (Score:5, Funny)
And Bing will have it in a week thanks to my toolbar!
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Sue American websites to take down material, sue the same sites to identify American 'infringers'. I guess Google will become Doe 25... for "aiding and abetting DMCA terrorists" or some similarly dramatic nonsense. They have plenty of links to...
http://gitorious.org/ps3free/ps3keys http://gitorious.org/ps3free/ps3publictools
But just try suing Gitorious in Norway or me wherever (even when I'm unemployed, I might try) I get bandwidth to host a mirror - if a NorCal court tells me to jump, I'll tell them to fu
Re:Might as well get in on the action (Score:4, Informative)
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That's because you got your decoder out of a Cracker Jack box rather than mailing in for the official Little Orphan Annie decoder from Ovaltine...
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The sharks aren't random enough.
http://xkcd.com/221/ [xkcd.com] (how part of PS3 security was implemented)
Re:Might as well get in on the action (Score:5, Informative)
direct download link, always contains url of the latest sony firmware:
http://fus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/list/us/ps3-updatelist.txt [playstation.net]
currently it points to v3.56
http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2011_0127_6e070c96e0464e993aaf9deac3660863/PS3UPDAT.PUP [playstation.net]
this firmware update can be installed without having to have a PlayStation network account or having to agree with the PS Network ToS & User Agreement
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110202220600258 [groklaw.net]
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I don't have a link to it but I'm pretty sure that Microsoft took someone to court who thought he was immune because he patched out the EULA. He thought wrong.
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Guess I might as well stop opening the bottoms of the paper sleeves/boxes to avoid breaking the "by breaking this seal you agree to" seals.
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i tested both the EU and the US firmware files, they are identical
File: PS3UPDAT_US.PUP
MD5: 2a52196399a4b96ea568aafa65d1a27e
SHA-1: c372ce26267590dc851eec66b73a162a8cac76ea
File: PS3UPDAT_EU.PUP
MD5: 2a52196399a4b96ea568aafa65d1a27e
SHA-1: c372ce26267590dc851eec66b73a162a8cac76ea
the _US file is the file downloaded (and renamed) from the US url, the _EU file is from the EU url
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mmm
erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B
riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D
pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19
R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17
n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1
K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D
Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 4
not the right code... (Score:4, Insightful)
That's the key information for the console, not the program to actually jailbreak it.
Anyone have a link for GeoHot's jailbreak.zip?
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Is that the "full fledged jail break code" mentioned in the article? It's unclear whether they mean the key, or the source code to CFW or whatever.
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Not only that, but you could claim that their decoding it constituted a "copyright circumvention device". =p
Remember the css_descramble.c Shirt (Score:5, Interesting)
I still have mine, sounds like we need someone to post code snippets on the back of a T-Shirt, with "only Sony wants Root" on the front, and the proceeds can go to legal defense.
Re:Remember the css_descramble.c Shirt (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:Remember the css_descramble.c Shirt (Score:5, Insightful)
Make the shirt show some cleavage, then:
On the front: "Sony wants to cover this up" or "Sony doesn't want you to see this"
On the back: PS3 root keys, blu-ray keys, etc
Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, If we are making outlandish requests... I demand that a federal judge order Sony to turn over a detailed list of all financial transactions for the company and its 150,000+ staff. I just want to make sure that they are not doing anything illegal with their property (their money).
Fair's fair.
Just for viewing? (Score:3)
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I wonder what they actually hope to accomplish/gain with this. I agree, Streisand Effect will be going into full force.
Personally, I think I'm done with Sony products. After the rootkit installing CDs and there other antics with the PS3, I don't feel like they actually want to keep me as a customer.
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Personally, I think I'm done with Sony products. After the rootkit installing CDs and there other antics with the PS3, I don't feel like they actually want to keep me as a customer.
Me too. I have not purchased a single Sony product, EVER, since seeing a list that somebody posted of their many attempts to lock the world into another wacky Sony proprietary format. Starting all the way back with BetaMax, then DAT, minidisc, ATRAC, MemoryStick, UMD, etc.
And that is ON TOP OF the evil connector conspiracy that Sony has naturally been a part of. Sorry Sony, I'm done with you... I'll give you another try in my next lifetime.
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Re:Just for viewing? (Score:5, Informative)
Not the case any more. a $100 graphics card will get you a Radeon 4850 or Radeon 5750. That is enough to play just about anything at default settings. Bump it up to the $150 to $200 range and you can play anything with higher settings.
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me too but what will you/I play 'call of duty' on then? I'm not buying an xbox.
That big funny box you used to type that message, perhaps?
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the PS3's a level playing field, I can't (actually I can) afford a piece of HW good enough to keep me competitive just to play CoD. I like my old/current hw, it's perfectly good enough for prn browsing needs.
If your principals are not worth a few hundred dollars, or a slight hit in gaming performance, that is a different problem. At least we know that you will fight them to the death, as long as you don't have to get out of your chair.
One guy keeps turning up in the logs (Score:5, Funny)
And what is it about asking for the IP address of those who VIEWED it?
"Gee, this Tor guy is really active!"
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Sony is going to run into a full Streisand Effect backlash with this new attempt to expunge the net of any trace of the very mention of this hack existing.
Sony, WTF, Remember the 80's? Remember when Sony was sued for helping people infringe copyright by selling Betamax VCRs?
Sort of like how the "Beta can be used to make illegal copies" lawsuit alerted more people that such could be done and Sony sold a bit more units because of this newly publicised use-case.
Sony Inc. v Universal Studios [wikipedia.org]:
The Court's 5-4 ruling to reverse the Ninth Circuit in favor of Sony hinged on the possibility that the technology in question had significant non-infringing uses, and that the plaintiffs were unable to prove otherwise.
On the question of whether Sony could be described as "contributing" to copyright infringement, the Court stated:
[There must be] a balance between a copyright holder's legitimate demand for effective - not merely symbolic - protection of the statutory monopoly, and the rights of others freely to engage in substantially unrelated areas of commerce. Accordingly, the sale of copying equipment, like the sale of other articles of commerce, does not constitute contributory infringement if the product is widely used for legitimate, unobjectionable purposes. Indeed, it need merely be capable of substantial noninfringing uses....
So, now the tables have turned. Hotz is assumed to be "contributing to copyright infringement", however the technology in question has significant non-infringing uses -- (S
Goodbye Sony, for good !!!! (Score:4, Interesting)
The only Playstation I ever had got sold 3 years ago, and now I have absolutely no interesting in purchasing ANY whatsoever Sony product.
Don't need to bother with my IP address, if I still had a sony product, I would throw it into the garbage right now.
This has been done before, and it failed. (Score:5, Insightful)
Did something like this go down when the HD-DVD key was found? Didn't it just cause MORE publicity, or something that's now know as the Streisand Effect? Good luck with that Sony, really.
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Sure, after I press submit I see someone posted something similar already.
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Yes, the DVDA attempt to prosecute anyone who even linked to a host of the deCSS "liberated" decryption key was the first case of the Streisand effect. It evoked an outraged response from the community, including a very effective EFF Blue Ribbon campaign for Freedom of Speech Online [eff.org], which is still active. I still own several t-shirts with the CSS key printed on the back. This was way back in like 1999 or something.
But it wasn't named the Streisand Effect until Barbara Streisand sued the California Coast
Re:This has been done before, and it failed. (Score:5, Interesting)
They want the Striesand effect. If it becomes widely distributed and known that people who hack PS3's get sued into oblivion the lesson is clear: mess with Sony and you lose your house. This is especially true for the people who had the talent and interest to do it the first time and it's probably going to slow down future hacks. The population of skilled hardware/software/firmware/microcontroller hackers capable of jailbreaking PS3's out there is probably large, but not infinite and they're reducing the pool.
Sony is planning for the PS4,5,6,...
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They want the Striesand effect. If it becomes widely distributed and known that people who hack PS3's get sued into oblivion the lesson is clear: mess with Sony and you lose your house. This is especially true for the people who had the talent and interest to do it the first time and it's probably going to slow down future hacks. The population of skilled hardware/software/firmware/microcontroller hackers capable of jailbreaking PS3's out there is probably large, but not infinite and they're reducing the pool.
Sony is planning for the PS4,5,6,...
Well, if that's really their thinking, then they are going about it completely the wrong way. All that action is like to do, is to induce the opposite behaviour in the hackers, causing those anti-rebellious types to want to hack it even more. Even if it's just for the thrill of pissing off Sony some more.
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I think the question is: does making sure everyone know the PS3 can be used to run whatever you want it to run, increase sales or decrease sales? Not everyone who uses the Streisand Effect is necessarily stupid.
It's been out for several years now; maybe it needs a little extra publicity.
Why mistreat your customers? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Why mistreat your customers? (Score:4, Informative)
Buying used still increases the scarcity of PS3's, allowing Sony to keep the price of a new unit high.
Not that individuals acting alone have any impact anyway...
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Buying used still increases the scarcity of PS3's, allowing Sony to keep the price of a new unit high.
Agreed, and realistically I would have no reason to buy one now that the Other OS option is not supported.
Not that individuals acting alone have any impact anyway...
Also agreed, however I feel rather confident that I'm not the customer Sony has lost over this.
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Not that individuals acting alone have any impact anyway...
A mob is just a group of individuals... Lots of posters have said they are done with Sony, so this may have an effect. That said, what took so long? This is Sony business as usual...
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Yes and no...
A used PS3 might have been bought when sony lost money on their sale, therefore buying a used one prevents the sale of a new unit that would make sony a profit.
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I'll be damned if I'm gonna give a penny to a company that is going to use the money to sue me and my peers...
So they're you're peers, eh? As in peer to peer?
Aaaaaaand here's a lawsuit.
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Someone better tell sony/RIAA/MPAA that in the US, a jury is also supposed to be comprised of the defendant's peers!
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Someone better tell sony/RIAA/MPAA that in the US, a jury is also supposed to be comprised of the defendant's peers!
So seed generously! http://www.xkcd.com/553/ [xkcd.com]
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Seconded.
I own a PS3 (won a contest) and can say tell you that all its software sucks.
(Except for LittleBigPlanet and Lemmings demo. Also, Gran Turismo = halfbaked-bloat fail)
I use it mainly as a DNLA client, as which it does a fairly decent job.
I'm not updating my firmware and am waiting for someone to enable Linux for my PS3 Slim.
Would not win Sony again.
In breaking news (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:In breaking news (Score:4, Interesting)
Sony is also demanding "A bajillion kajillion dollars, all the chocolate in the world, and a pony."
Well, I don't have a pony to offer them, but I do have an ass. It's hairy, and Sony is cordially invited to kiss it.
I don't understand Sony. Back in the 80's and 90's, when I needed some electronic thingie, I would just walk into the store and ask what Sony had to offer. I have a CD player from 1989 that refuses to do, despite years of abuse from a dumb-ass like me. My camcorder from 1998 is still the toast of the town, for all the features that it has. It also refuses to die, despite my drunken friends at parties, dropping it, spilling beer on it, etc.
As a child/teenager, back in the 70's, I used to read my father's copy of . When they had stories about top executives, I used to think, "Wow! Those must be really intelligent guys, to be running a big company like that!" Now, I look at Sony, with their root-kit action, and now this, and I ask, "How did such dumb-asses get to be running such a large company? Don't they realize that they are pissing their customers off with stuff like this?"
Well, let me join the chorus. The next time I buy some electronic thingie, instead of asking, "What does Sony have?", I will ask, "What can you recommend?" Sorry Sony, I just seem to not have much trust in you anymore.
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I have a CD player from 1989 that refuses to die, despite years of abuse from a dumb-ass like me.
There, fixed that for me . . .
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Sony is also demanding "A bajillion kajillion dollars, all the chocolate in the world, and a pony."
I have a pony for them... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-prMb6BdNs [youtube.com]
Cutting into Sales (Score:5, Insightful)
Sony claims the hacks will eat into game sales for the 41 million PS3 units sold.
Dear Sony,
You know what will really cut into sales? Being total douchebags towards your customers. That's what is really going to cut into sales.
thxkbye
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Re:Cutting into Sales (Score:4, Interesting)
I am amazed that Sony is persisting in being a BUNCH OF JACKASSES. When I purchased a PS3 several years ago most of the appeal was the "Other OS" feature. Sure, I have bought my share of games (>20) and enjoy those too. Selling something (Other OS) and then taking it away makes many of us just think that Sony management is full of Mother-Fuc&ers.
Sony should be embracing the Other OS crowd and giving us more options to use the platform for high end computing.
Hey assholes, you made the news as a forward thinking company when you gave us the Other OS feature. Now you are making the news for being just as backwards and ignorant as Micro$oft.
What the result will be (for me) is that I will enjoy the games I have but will not spend another dime on PS3 games. Guess what, I am doing that just to spite you.
So... anyone wanna buy a first generation PS3? (Score:2)
60GB with full hardware backwards compatibility...
Ah yes! (Score:2)
Sony has been reading the SCO playbook....
In all seriousness (Score:2)
Post it on wikileaks, and make it available to all from there, as they are already in hot water, and will not be shut down at any cost.....this way it will get mirrored by all who support such things, and the openness of information. Screw you SONY!
I was going to buy a PS3... (Score:2)
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You should probably go Amish then because every corporation on the planet acts like this.
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So what does Google actually log? (Score:3)
What's more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (PDF) of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube page.
The INTERESTING bit here is in finding out how much, and what, Google actually logs and stores.
So does Google actually log visits by IP adress to a private YouTube page?
Last console for Sony? (Score:2)
The PS2 was very easily hacked to play pirated games. And yet the PS2 was the most successful console of its generation. The Gameboy line of handhelds have all been very easily hacked, and yet Nintendo sells tons of games and hardware.
I'm not advocating piracy or saying it has zero effect, but I honestly believe that threatening to sue anyone who even viewed the content (with no proof they hacked their console, or distributed the information) is really going too far. I've long been a Sony supporter. I bough
Youtube Video (Score:2)
Can someone please put a link to that youtube video ?
Thanks.
Reality check fail for Sony lawers (Score:2)
Would we put up with this from a Chinese company? (Score:2)
Am I the only one who finds it a little creepy that a foreign company can come into the U.S. and just wantonly try to violate the 1st and 4th amendment rights of our citizens (and presumably, many other citizens around the world)? As big a bunch of tools as Google are, I would hope they would at least tell Sony to go to hell on the identities of commenters and viewers of a web video. And, if they do hand these over, I think the FBI should be investigating THEM.
Sue me, motherfucker. (Score:3, Interesting)
I have all the software and code to hack the PS3. I will also make it available to anyone that asks for it, by emailing me at montezumamd@gmail.com. Seeing as everyone that wants it can get it, Sony will have a hard fucking time suing me, or anyone else. There is also the fact that I am dirty-fucking-poor, and have no money to my name. Also, seeing how I cannot be put in jail for providing what is already publicly available, Sony can do nothing to me.
I was going to try and comment on that YouTube video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkLSXsCKDkg), but alas, it is private. So, I will just comment here and say that, if that video is pertaining to hacking the PS3, then good job.
Tada! Comon Sony you bunch of shitheads! (Score:2)
.. of those who have viewed or commented .. (Score:2)
This is stupid (Score:2)
Sure, now Sony will have to evaluate new DRM for new games. Big whoop. By antagonizing like this, all they're doing is digging the hole deeper. Adding back the OtherOS option would have been reason enough for the fail0verflow folks to quit.
Idiots. (Score:3)
I was already done with Sony. They don't even make high quality stuff anymore, it's all disposable junk they charge a premium to put their name on. The last straw was a BluRay movie, a $10 one, refusing to play on my PS3 without a firmware upgrade. WTF?!?!?! It's a PAID FOR MOVIE. Fuck you. Not only that, I think I'm going to start pirating all my media. I don't have to deal with this shit on pirated movies/games.
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This means I should be able to do whatever I want with the console,
You can. Sony is trying to prevent people from distributing modified versions of their software, for which you received only a limited license when you purchased the PS3.
I get you, I really do. But your anger is directed at the wrong point. If you want to be able to receive or redistribute Sony's code than you ought to be seeking changes to IP law & practices.
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No it isn't.
The law might permit this disgusting behavior, but Sony in no way is obligated to actually do it. It's their choice to be assholes, as well as it's their choice to use restrictive licensing, and thus it's entirely their fault.
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If I paid $1000 for rent this past month, who owns the house I live in? THE LANDLORD. I still can't do major changes to the house or property, can't burn it down, can't use it as security for a loan... and I have to abide by all the terms I agreed to in the lease, which is a legally-binding contract just like the software license you agreed to. You did read it, didn't you?
Interesting analogy. To make it a bit more correct though, we need to add the following things.
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If those are all terms you agreed to, then sure. Why not? That's pretty similar to what's in most employment contracts. If you don't like a contract, don't agree to it. Don't buy Sony's products, and encourage others to do the same.
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Absolutely!
Don't go signing any contracts saying you agree to such things.
Stop and think before you put pen to paper! Once it's down in ink on paper it's serious!
On a related note now that you've read my post please retroactively agree to my conditions that you must send me all your Christmas presents next December.
If you don't agree to this you are required to delete all copies of the data from your computer, from your ISP's buffers, from your own mind, from the fabric of space if you read this with your c
Re:DEAR SONY (Score:4, Insightful)
And you see no problem with the fact that you would have to sue to get rid of those other terms?
my post was essentially what most EULAs are.
A wishlist of things that the company would love with no reference at all to whether it's even vaguely legal.
And they all essentially say the same thing: "we can do anything at all we want, we have no obligation to you at all, you should be happy we allowed you to give us money ,you can't do anything though we may not enforce our right to stop you from doing stuff if we feel like it" and plastered all over it because they know very well that most of what they write isn't even vaguely legal: something along the lines of "if any part or parts of this agreement are invalidated or illegal all the rest still binds you but not us"
I absolutely agree to abide by any contract I sign but the thing is that I've never in my life signed a contract for software.
All I've ever done is click "OK" to company wishlists after I've already bought my property from them and our business is done.
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There's exageration and then there's just plain lying through your teeth.
You can't have it both ways.
either you buy both the hardware and the software as a *system* or you buy one and the other is a completely seperate thing which you get free and which the company may withold if they feel like it.
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You forgot:
6. All of these points are only revealed once you've paid your rent (non refundable), as they are written on a wall inside the apartment.
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obviously!
it's like how I only have a licences to the words in the books I buy.
If I want to create a derivative work by doodling in the margins all I have to do to avoid a lawsuit from the author is remove all the copyrighted words from the book first using white spirits and bleach.
And don't get me started on those fucking photocopier manufacturers! supporting book piracy! death's too good for them!
When you took that pen and signed your name to the line at the bottom of the paper on that contract agreeing t
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No, he bought a copy. The fact that it might be accompanied by a license is another matter, open to discussion as Sarten-X pointed out. But when you go into a store, pick up a dvd, a game or a cd, you're BUYING a copy. It doesn't matter what papers the company puts in the box, it's your copy, and as long as you don't violate copyright law (or any other law, like the DMCA), you can do anything you want with it.
Some of those laws say that you can't perform publicly, redistribute, etc. but nowhere at all it sa
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This is scaring me...
About time! The only limits on Sony are what they think the can get away with. And they are awfully confident in themselves getting away with a lot.
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Why shouldn't they?
They're bought and paid for...
Just like the f**king consoles they're suing people for hacking!
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I think it's even crazier they want IP's from people who only viewed the video though for all I know I could have seen it embeded somewhere or other and never even took it in.
However, if they can get law to say you are responsible for what you view, regardless of how... Think of the CP e-mail bomb the CEO would get! Ooops... :)
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They have to know what each accused user eats for breakfast too?
Frivolous lawsuits!