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GeoHot Asks For Donations To Fight Sony
mede writes "In an interesting turn of events, Sony might have stumbled into a tough nut to crack. George Hotz (aka GeoHot) famous for his iPhone hacking achievements, is planning on fighting the big corporation on removing his free speech rights at utilizing his fully paid for hardware. Hotz has always claimed being anti-piracy (since iPhone activities) and says he has never pirated any game or even signed PSN agreements. He's asking for donations to fight Sony back and try to achieve something similar to what was previously accomplished by the EFF with regard to cellphones. I've already donated."
This is just a media event for Geohot to launch his music career. I bet he'll sign with Sony.
Paypal is NOT a good method to ask tech-savvy people to donate through
Paypal is nearly as hated as Sony.
Give me a postal address and I'll send you a couple of nice $20 bills
Isn't this kid's hack the reason every PS3 game is now rife with cheats?
No thanks, I'm rooting for Sony on this one.
" Hotz has always claimed being anti-piracy (since iPhone activities) and expresses has never pirated any game or even signed to PSN agreements.."
What the fuck is this gibberish?
I didn't know leaking trade secrets, like say, a crypto key, was a free speech issue.
Good to know that all of my lawyer friends are completely wrong on this one and that Geohot has set me straight. Now I'm going to exercise my free speech rights and leak some trade secrets.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Already donated.
To Sony. Let's see how effective Hortz's jailbreak will be when he's in prison.