I read the news story about the Sony PS3 hacker and the hacker group "Anonymous." I am comfortable with being inconvenienced if that means that consumers gain their voice again. Long ago a consumer who was dissatisfied with a product could have their voice heard, but now our e-mails are automatically replied and stuffed into the digital garbage can. This kid paid his money, cracked the firmware and got sued for it. I'm not going to do the same thing; I don't have the expertise. I know that everybody is upset because this will lead to pirate games, but I have a conscience that won't pirate games. He shouldn't have to trade his freedom for breaking a piece of hardware that he purchased. (Yes, I know all about a EULA.) Sony and the American legal system will take away his right and put him in jail. He will stay there until he is rehibilitated. Sony will have a cracked system that will continue to be cracked until the end of time.  

If everybody is so worried about piracy, then everything should just go server side, like Steam. The world isn't convenient and the more we act like our little bubbles are impenetrable the more we will be butthurt when they aren't. Leave the kid be! Let him do his little haXXor tricks! The vast majority of us who have a conscience, we can see the interesting parts of the story and scoff at the "impending Armageddon" that will be brought about by pirated games.

We have laws to keep us morally correct, but all of us break those laws at some time or another. Everybody has jaywalked, most people have tried marijuana, and a vast majority of you have looked at internet pornography before you were 18 years old. Laws are there to keep our consciences on a straight path. If we stray from that path we are not reprehensible people; we are humans.