Geohot wusses out

[Soveru]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-23-ps3-hacker-flees-to-south-america

Basically Geohot has decided to flee and ran to South America. So much for your donations for him to fight Sony.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Lemme guess: Sony got fed up with GeoHotz and decided to hire a small team of mercs to kill him, so he flees to South America. Well, alongside the presented story, the aforementioned I'm guessing happened.

 

[manythings]

"Your"? I didn't realise this was the "We love Geohot" page.

OT: I'm willing to bet his lawyer told him exactly how fucked he was so he finally used his head.

 

[bit_crusherrr]

Geohot is a prick. All he's done is cause hassle for legitimate PS3 owners. Hopefully now people will stop supporting him after him eloping to South America.

 

[TheDist]

Lemme guess: Sony got fed up with GeoHotz and decided to hire a small team of mercs to kill him, so he flees to South America. Well, alongside the presented story, the aforementioned I'm guessing happened.

Well looks like you have just written the plot for cod:mw 3.

Hm as for this I can't say I am shocked, I honestly never thought he'd have a real chance in court at all.

 

[Ima842]

"WE do not want him here"
-South America

 

[Griffolion]

This is actually going to be the plot for MW3.

 

[Wolfram23]

Meh.

Pretty damn sure that Sony would use whatever they found, regardless of it being irrelevant to the case at hand, to show geohot as a "bad guy" and won the case on that alone, even though what the case should really be about is the freedom of a consumer to modify their purchased hardware.

The linked article also says something about Sony finding out that he had 4 PS3 systems and with 1 of them he got onto PSN... That seems pretty irrelevant but I'll bet their planning to say "oh, well, he did get on PSN which means he did agree to the terms of service, which means even though on his other consoles that aren't hooked up to PSN he still has to abide by the ToS". Which hardly should mean anything but again... that's the way it would have panned out I'd wager.

 

[Dan Murray]

Im I the only one who bothered to read this??

Magistrate Judge Spero ordered an inspection of Hotz's devices and ordered Hotz to appear at a deposition in California, SCEA learned that Hotz had deliberately removed integral components of his impounded hard drives prior to delivering them to a third party neutral and that Hotz is now in South America, an excuse for why he will not immediately provide the components of his hard drives as requested by the neutral.

Geohot's equipment was seized during the police raid on his home, meaning he has no legal access to his equipment so he cant have removed or hidden anything from anyone

 

[Dastardly]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-23-ps3-hacker-flees-to-south-america

Basically Geohot has decided to flee and ran to South America. So much for your donations for him to fight Sony.

So... where'd all that money go, anyhow?

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

.....well this is nice. [/sarcasm]

So much for "I'm fighting for the people's right to do what they want with their property".


Wait...is my Captcha really "Vegetarian A Yesse"?!? 0_o What the heck.....