No, actually you're a shill for showing a bit of common sense, which doesn't work very well for the discussion. Bringing up actual facts, such as Sony just kicks people off PSN if they detect CFW, or that the actual lawsuit is about a DMCA violation tends to anger the 4chan converts here on /. You'd be better off convincing a birther that Obama is from Hawaii than convincing people that GeoHot is in court due to his own actions.

So, by your logic, if you decompiled something, such as one of the Office executables and during the decompile, you discovered a flaw that would let you bypass the 25-character key and Windows Genuine Advantage before setup and the activation after setup. Now that you have the key, you could either:
a) send something to MS, saying "Hey, I found a security flaw with x you might want to fix" or
b) post something on YouTube to the equivalent of "HEY EVERYONE!!!! I CAN GET AROUND WGA AND WINDOWS ACTIVATION!!!!1!one!! Now I'm not saying that you should pirate Office, but here's the flaw and how to exploit it."

Obviously, you would be in no legal trouble doing B, right? You did purchase your copy of Office, so it should be yours to do whatever you want to with it. I mean, you did pay for your copy of Office just like you paid for your copy of all of the firmware included on the PS3 (as well as accept their TOS when it comes to the OS on the first boot of the system), so there should be no legal implications, correct?

How about for arguments sake, you go ahead and try B, and let all of us here know how it works out for you, ok?

*sigh*....*facepalm*....And I thought my reading/legal comprehension was off today.....

  No, I cannot claim to own "12345" as my own number if it were the combination to my luggage. But, if you get a hold of the combination to that, I can go after you for releasing that combination to everyone. That is EXACTLY what Geohot is in trouble for.

This is not about copyrighting a key.... it is about distributing a security key that a) he should not have had and b) is used to secure something that is copyrighted (e.g. Firmware/software published by Sony).

You would have to be one hell of a contortionist to make the stretch that this is some sort of First Amendment issue. Whether or not the DMCA is a good law is still an entirely separate argument, but this is nowhere near a free speech issue.

What he did was release the key, which still happens to be Sony's private key (read: theirs), in order to bypass the security of this system. Fail0verflow, who actually found the key, did the (relatively) right thing and realized the screw-up and sat on it, which is why they're not in that much of legal trouble, Things would have been fine if that twit St. George wouldn't have done the internet equivalent of breaking out the bullhorn and yelling "Hey, I got my hands on the security key to the PS3, but don't use it for piracy *wink wink*" ... and THAT is why this case is where it is.

Yes, Sony has been a pretty big dick about things the last 5+ years(CD rootkit, general quality of their hardware, etc...), but speaking as a software dev, they do have the right to try to protect the works for their game studios/3rd parties who develop for their system. If they were let piracy run rampant on the machine, which face it, that's what most "homebrew" would have been for, PS3 gamers would only have to look forward to our yearly allotment of Madden/COD games.

What he did, and Sony is pissed at him over, is release the (at the time) root security key of the system, which enables any software to be signed as if it was a legit executable from Sony. Despite what most of the anti-Sony rants on /. (and the bit from Anon), this has nothing to do with jailbreaking his PS3, and everything to do with the releasing the key, which is a violation of the DMCA.

Please.... we all know that's to rational of a reason to be viable on /. There has to be some evil, underhanded reason they did this.....

That's a perfect reason why you shouldn't start drinking until at least 9AM. YMMV

Probably worse idea, since, IIRC the Sony rootkit didn't collect all of the data that this keylogger could. Whatever the case is though, still an extremely douchey move, Samsung, and hopefully one they'll be sued to hell over.

Having your own opinion is fine and dandy.... You are not, however, entitled to your own set of facts... You can connect a PS3 controller (be it a DS3 or a Move) to your PC, and no one is going to particularly give a damn about it. Why? Because a) That's not going to affect the money they get from game licensing, which is where they get most of their revenue, and b) they've been fine with letting this happen for years.

The times that they are litigious bastards are when someone does something that's doing something that's going to affect their bottom line. Whether it's morally right or wrong is an entirely different argument, but when you do things, such as break trademark agreements (Lik Sang) or post the keys to the system security model to the world (GeoHot), Sony, as any other IP-holding company would, is going to sick their lawyers on you. Now I will give you what the music division did was a complete load of BS, but they've already lost that court (and public opinion) battle long ago.

If you don't want to buy from them again, then don't, but please, when you find this "morally virtuous" company that's not eventually going to pull some asshole stunt on their customers, let all of us on /. know.

O RLY? I know that Sony-hating is popular here these days, but take the 30 seconds to do a little research, instead of spouting some BS that's going to be picked up and spread around endlessly by the freetards.

Now, if you go distributing stuff on the internet that compromises their, oh, I don't know, security, chances are Sony's going to be kind of pissed over it. Or to put it another way (so eloquently by Rothbart at Sarcastic Gamer):
"Right... but if you walk up and call Mike Tyson a pussy and kick him in the nuts, who is exactly "responsible" for your ass getting kicked?"

Didn't Netcraft already confirm that BSD is dying though? By extension, you could say that iOS is dying, with the kernel being derived from BSD.

I propose a different measurement: How many Godzilla's will this produce?

And not the 1998, Matthew-Broderick-starring Godzilla either, because, let's face it... that Godzilla sucked.

Um.... it was found in the water.... What the summary said was that Cesium-137 has a much longer half-life than the other isotopes.

No, not quite.... if you're comparing it on a metric such as "Do you prefer an iOS/Android/RIM environment?" then yes, Android is beating Apple and is continuing to increase it's share. That's a fair comparison, since you can't knock Android for Apple only allowing one version of its phone/tablet platform at a time.

Since we all love car analogies on /., it's equivalent to asking "Do you prefer to drive a sedan or a pickup?" It doesn't matter how many vehicles of each the manufactures make, but how many of that type get picked up by the consumers.

Bah, there's an easy solution anyway.... just talk to the creators of CSI and see if you can get in on the 427.x.x.x block.

Quite obvious if you ask me...