When you open a case against the hacker Geohot because he created a modification that allowed the piracy of PS3 games, Sony has not only painted a nice target on his back to hacker attacks but also positioned itself very clearly: "We do not like tampering with the console with our objectives for which it was not created. " At least that was what many thought.
Although it has settled an agreement with all the confusion with the legal hacker, Sony has officially stated that it is not against the modification of your console. In an interview with the New York Times, Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony, said that "we approve the independent development of games and if you call that a hack, we approve" when asked if they are against the modification of consoles .
He continued saying that "we give people tools so they create new experiences with the PS3," but it was quite emphatic on the point of piracy. "What I do not think we support is someone trying to hack our device to pirate programs and possibly break our platform," Tretton added.
Strangely, since the first version of the hack that changed the PS3, the hacker Geohot made it clear that condemned any misuse of the tool available for it. This includes piracy of content. But Sony should not have read this fine print at the time and decided to prosecute him anyway.
