It’s so you can ”install homebrew applications” adding that piracy ”doesn’t work in my Jailbreak.” He made ”specific effort” to not enable piracy exploits.
Sony is currently launching legal action against George ‘Geohot’ Hotz, hacking group Fail0verflow and others for messing with the PlayStation 3. The Jailbreak code violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims Sony, enabling pirate software.
”Right now, still legally, you can go to my website, Geohot.com, and download my Jailbreak for your PS3,” said Hotz, claiming precedent in the victory he was awarded in the iPhone hacking case, which let users install their own apps.
”It lets you install homebrew applications, which have been developed by anyone. You can develop your own application or go download some and put them on your Jailbroken PS3,” he continued. ”The way piracy was previously done doesn’t work in my Jailbreak.”
”I made a specific effort while I was working on this to try to enable homebrew without enabling things I do not support, like piracy.” He’s being sued mostly for ”making Sony mad,” he alleges. This case he says is really about ‘true ownership’.
”Currently the difference is the DMCA says specifically mobile phones, but the same precedent should apply. If they decide a phone is a closed system, where the manufacturer controls all the software that runs on it, if you can Jailbreak one closed system, why can’t you Jailbreak another?” he argues. ”This case is about a lot more than what I did and me. It’s about whether you really own that device that you purchased.”
What’s he going to do next? ”When does the PSP2 come out? No, I’m kidding.”
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