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: GamePolitics.comDavid Braben On Game Ownership, Hacking, and Free Speech
By Andrew Eisen
If you've been following our coverage of Sony's quest to sue the snot out of George "Geohot" Hotz for hacking the PS3, you've no doubt formed an opinion on topics such as game ownership, hacking and free speech.
Well, so has Frontier founder David Braben and he's laid out his views in a handy-dandy op-ed.
'Buying a PlayStation 3 (for example), also does not give me unrestricted ownership of it. If I ‘dig' into it, I can't just sell or even give away all the information I find... If someone buys the same model of car as me, and then after studying it at length announces to the world a good way of breaking into that car, it hurts me.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).
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