George Hotz PayPal Subpoena Limited to California, Court Docs Reveal

That's hardly what the mentality behind jailbreaking is. The mentality (at least with those with pure intentions) is that users have the right to both

A. know what code is being run under the hardware we paid for,

and

B. run any code that we have the legal rights run, under any hardware that we own.

Were it not for the whole piracy argument, which to be frank is somewhat bunk anyway, (due to the fact that Blu-ray disk sizes discourage all but thse with the fastest internet from downloading ROMs), this would be a non-issue.

Most people have no disagreement that Sony has the right to protect their software, the issues comes when they try to make a sacrifical lamb out of someone.

If Geo had really done something majorly wrong, they they would not be trying to spin the story nearly as much. If what he did was 100% for-sure illegal, then New Jersey would be just as good a place to have the trial as California. Instead of fighting him in court, they seem to just want to drain him of his ability to fight this suit, both monetarilly and mentally.

Persoanlly to me, it seems like Sony is less afraid of people pirating Sony software, and more afraid of what hackers can make the PS3 hardware do. For example Sony releases a new pay to download browser, the hacker could release a better one with custom firmware. People analyze the two, and go custom, Sony loses sales. Or perhaps even more likely, Sony is going to make a new propritary Other OS, but charge for it, and create it's own app store, much like Apple iOS and App Store.

If the hackers can create firmware that allows them to run Linux, then the odds of Sony making money with their own OS, plumit.

I'm all for Sony stopping piracy, but they seem to have other motives for utterly terrifying everyone who breaks into the PS3. THe PS2, the PSP, thee PSP Go, even they didn't throw nearly as big a fit over those consoles.

I personally, am asking myself; why so much fuss over the PS3?