They have a right to be upset, yes. They have no right to be invading everyones privacy and handing out frivolous lawsuits left and right, however. Sony has gone completely off the deep end on this, and it's made them come out looking like lunatics, and nothing short of that. They're trying to sue homebrew developers here, most of which didn't even have anything to do with the console being compromised.. these are just innocent coders\hobbyists that are being targeted just because they decided to write their code for the PS3, which itself is already compromised and there's not a damn thing at this point that can close it again.Originally Posted by Wolf the Knight
None of this is about damage control, none of this is even an effort to combat piracy either.. Those are both impossible battles, and in all honesty they've already lost both of those as it is. What this is about, is them destroying the lives of anyone and everyone on the homebrew scene they think they can get their hands on by drowning them in legal fees however they possibly can.. This is plain and simply, them trying to send a clear and concise message: "Don't fuck with our console."
Quite frankly, they're acting like complete assholes about all of this. They're alienating a lot of people in the homebrew scene and throwing a lawyer at everything they can find. They've been sending out DCMA notices for gods sake to git repositories, none of which had any copyrighted material or code within them.. They're simply using scare tactics to major coding hubs to get them to pulldown projects without any actual authority or legal right to do so.
On a side note.. It seems Hon. Susan Illston has denied Sony's request for expedited discovery. As a result, this means Sony's little subpoena frenzy is null and void (for now), and that if they want the information they asked for they have to go to a hearing first to prove their case for warranting such information - the hearing of which is scheduled for March 11th.
