Re:Sony suing fail0verflow & geohot over PS3 jailbreak [pdf]
by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @11:54PM
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That's not really a fair comparison, especially considering the level of discussion the DMCA goes into when covering what is considered fair use and what sorts of reverse engineering is prohibited. It'd be more like a gun manufacturer suing because someone turned their gun into an automatic rifle (jailbreak). And then spread instructions on how to do it (homebrew). And then a bunch of people held up grocery stores (piracy).
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Re:Sony suing fail0verflow & geohot over PS3 jailbreak [pdf]
by stewartbutler on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @07:14AM
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Not much better. Modifying a gun to turn it into a weapon means you are taking a legal weapon and turning it into something illegal.
The import and creation of automatic weapons in the US is restricted to law enforcement and military. Mere POSSESSION of an unregistered automatic weapon is a felony offense. The two cases are completely unrelated.
Jailbreaking a PS3 is equivalent to jailbreaking a phone, with the possible exception that doing so may be a violation of DMCA, since it theoretically enables the copying of DVD/BDVD/games.