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You could of course look at the facts of the case and understand why. He was, in fact, selling circumvention devices for the explicit purpose of enabling pirac
by prvit 4y ago
You could of course look at the facts of the case and understand why.
He was, in fact, selling circumvention devices for the explicit purpose of enabling piracy.
- slimsag 4y agoHey, in general it's better to assume good faith. It's snide to just assume I haven't looked at the facts or attempted to understand anything. According to Ars Technica the DOJ indictment stated: * There was a screenshot of the SX OS menu with commercial games in it. * A public changelog for SX OS publicly trumpeted the feature of "launching your Retro Game ROMs for emulators directly from gDrive," * They were "attempt[ing] to cloak its illegal activity with a purported desire to support homebrew enthusiasts who wanted to design their own games." * the product description for the team's SX devices notes that you can "play all your favorite game backups straight off of the microSD card (or external USB storage!)" So, yeah, I agree they were selling circumvention devices with at least some level of piracy intent (and that was used to send him to prison after all.) But I think you can also agree the delta between what they were doing and what geohotz did with the PS3 is not very large.
- prvit 4y ago> But I think you can also agree the delta between what they were doing and what geohotz did with the PS3 is not very large. It was absolutely massive. geohots jailbreak did not enable piracy. It’s like the delta between selling kratom and heroin is not very large, both are drugs that will get you high.