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Sony's Case Against Geohot Has Been Settled
matt_gaia writes "According to Sony Computer Entertainment America, they have reached a settlement with GeoHot (George Hotz), where Hotz has consented to a permanent injunction, but still denies any wrong-doing in the whole affair. Sony said, 'Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers. We believe this settlement and the permanent injunction achieve this goal.'"
I wonder if Anonymous will proceed with their anti-Sony campaign.
'Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers.'
If SCEA was ever interested in protecting consumers, they never would have brought suit against GeoHot in the first place.
Why don't you stuff it? They are interested of course in protecting their own IP and the IP or their partners and looking out for their consumers. The average consumer is not affected by the lack of linux or not being able to run hombrew/pirated games. Let use be honest here, most people bothering to hack their PS3 are interested in pirated games. That is their primary motivation. Consumers "consume" by buying games and media which earns Sony and their partners money.
Let us also admit that GeoHot does not represent the average consumer either.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
fucking astroturfers.
get a real job and stop writing bullshit paid comments.
sony fucked the common good. it all leads back to them removing otherOS.
That dollar amount of damage against consumers was done purely by sony when they decided to fuck a minority of their users.