Electronic Frontier Foundation Gets $10K From GeoHot’s Legal Fund

12 responses to “Electronic Frontier Foundation Gets $10K From GeoHot’s Legal Fund”

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   Adam Ruch

   April 17, 2011 at 12:57 pm

   That’s possibly the classiest thing he’s done since this thing started. The most mature etc.

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      Dissection

      April 17, 2011 at 10:35 pm

      Far classier than Sony’s actions of trying to manipulate the US legal system by changing jurisdiction to obtain a victory.

      That’s what I don’t get, people go on and on about what he did regards to Sony’s software yet so few complained about Sony’s actions on gaining IP addresses and details which were in every single textbook definition; illegal and unconstitutional.

      Go Hotz! You won big time, dude. Sure you didn’t get what you wanted originally but Sony brought major international attention to the flaws you found rather than leaving that info in the hands of a small handful, spent millions on legal counsel that went nowhere, lost hundreds of thousands in potential sales, and spent several million on protecting the server that was not being DDOS’ed by Anon. If Charlie Sheen hadn’t taken the definition of “winning” already, then you would have!

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   Christopher Johnson

   April 17, 2011 at 3:54 pm

   Free speech doesn’t count allowing people to pirate other people’s work douchebag…

   But this will be the ONLY time I commend Hotz. Donating the remaining funds (and a little more) to EFF as promised was good for him on his behalf.

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      Anthony Warne

      April 17, 2011 at 7:55 pm

      What a fkn hero

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      Mitchell Clifford

      April 17, 2011 at 8:11 pm

      GeoHot didn’t release pirating tools. He even put some anti-piracy mechanisms in his firmware release.

      I really can’t comprehend people who are siding with Sony on this. What GeoHot did was give people the ability to use their own purchased hardware as they saw fit. Yes, there were others who manipulated his work for piracy and cheating, but that’s hardly his fault. What he was trying to do should be applauded.

      He Jailbreaks the iPhone, allowing people to use their hardware who they want (which, by the way, has also enabled piracy), and he gets praised. He does the same thing to the PS3, and people want to rip him a new one? Hypocrites.

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      Kyle_Katarn

      April 17, 2011 at 8:25 pm

      Freedom of speech is universal, you might be surprised to know.

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         James Mac

         April 18, 2011 at 4:15 pm

         And all men are created equal… it’s just that some men are more equal than others.

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      TheMiddle

      April 17, 2011 at 9:34 pm

      Actually young Christopher if anything that would fall under ownership and privacy. Better luck next time!

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   Sagarat

   April 17, 2011 at 10:30 pm

   Hotz claims that publishing the PS3/PSP master key on-line is free speech.

   If I publish his bank account details, including passwords on-line, is that also free speech?

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      Mitchell Clifford

      April 18, 2011 at 9:40 am

      This argument is dumber than I can even comprehend.

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4. 

   sdfsux

   April 17, 2011 at 11:49 pm

   Christopher Johnson, get you facts right psony-drone.

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5. 

   Denaz

   April 18, 2011 at 12:05 pm

   Probably would have been better going to one of the disaster funds, but its better then nothing.

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