Another Sony update

Earlier this week, Sony settled their lawsuit against on of the PS3 hackers... apparently, the terms are that the hacker won't further distribute the code he already made, won't make any more PS3-breaking code, and won't help anybody else to do so, either. In exchange, both parties avoid trial, which would be financially ruinous for the hacker and more bad PR for Sony. Of course, it's unfortunate that the basic issue of what a hardware owner is allowed to do with their own hardware won't get its day in court, but I can't fault the hacker for taking the bargain, either... after all, that's the very reason I'm not going anywhere near existing hacks until the question is settled.