Sony and Geohot settle. The war is "over"

[Scotty]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/hotz-lawyer-ps3-hacking-case-over-dmca-and-ip-abuse-live-on.ars

[T-Rok]

This caused a huge uproar. Many many people deemed Hotz a coward, but really, I'd settle for this too. A permanent injuction, meaning he can no longer involve himself in the hacking or cracking of a PS3 system. This doesn't affect any other Sony poducts. At all.

[Scotty]

The article describes it perfectly.  I too was one who, at first, was initially disappointed.  I quickly realized though in hind-sight, this was going to be the outcome.  This guy is 21 years old, probably has school loans he's paying, doesn't have much of a steady source of income, and certainly would go bankrupt in this whole shindig based off lawyer fees alone.  Meanwhile you have Sony who didn't accomplish a damn thing, ruined the life of a 21 year old, and goes from the label of "Ultimate douche company" to "Shares dropped to flat broke because we are douches and no one wants to invest in a company who bullies a 21 year old (the average/mean of our customer base for the product in question) as badly as we did."  Oh, and did I mention, they didn't accomplish a DAMNED THING.  It's still out there folks.  Hell, the private key is on t-shirts even (saw someone the other week wearing it, I lol'd and gave him the geek-approved thumbs up).

Had this been two very large competitive companies, hell yeah it would've went to court, and best of all, we would've never known, because who honestly cares as much when it's corporation vs. corporation (business as usual), rather than big bad bully Sony versus one 21 year old kid.

EDIT: Sad really, because I got rid of my last PS3, but was considering getting another for the release of SOCOM 4, and against my typical careless regard towards boycotts, I seriously am second guessing giving Sony my money, only made complicated because of the many friends whom I'd play SOCOM 4 with...

[T-Rok]

The article describes it perfectly.  I too was one who, at first, was initially disappointed.  I quickly realized though in hind-sight, this was going to be the outcome.  This guy is 21 years old, probably has school loans he's paying, doesn't have much of a steady source of income, and certainly would go bankrupt in this whole shindig based off lawyer fees alone.  Meanwhile you have Sony who didn't accomplish a damn thing, ruined the life of a 21 year old, and goes from the label of "Ultimate douche company" to "Shares dropped to flat broke because we are douches and no one wants to invest in a company who bullies a 21 year old (the average/mean of our customer base for the product in question) as badly as we did."  Oh, and did I mention, they didn't accomplish a DAMNED THING.  It's still out there folks.  Hell, the private key is on t-shirts even (saw someone the other week wearing it, I lol'd and gave him the geek-approved thumbs up).

Had this been two very large competitive companies, hell yeah it would've went to court, and best of all, we would've never known, because who honestly cares as much when it's corporation vs. corporation (business as usual), rather than big bad bully Sony versus one 21 year old kid.

EDIT: Sad really, because I got rid of my last PS3, but was considering getting another for the release of SOCOM 4, and against my typical careless regard towards boycotts, I seriously am second guessing giving Sony my money, only made complicated because of the many friends whom I'd play SOCOM 4 with...

1. Find PS3 on firmware 3.55
2. Buy it
3. -censored-
4. Socom 4

[Titan]

1.Don't buy a PS3.
2.Don't play Socom 4
3.?? ?? ??
4. Profit!

[Scotty]

To those who thought that the term "settlement" involved money, I think not!:

[T-Rok]

To those who thought that the term "settlement" involved money, I think not!:

He did promise all the left over money for the case would be donated to them.