It sounds like this one's could bounce around for some time before it's sorted in court. At issue: Whether hacking your PS3 to run Linux is analogous to hacking an iPhone to run unofficial software. The U.S. government exempted iPhone jailbreaking from the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) earlier this year, implying (if not explicitly stating) that jailbreaking is legal.

But is "jailbreaking" your PS3 legal? Is Hotz's hack even technically a "jailbreak"? What does it mean that most probably want the hack to pirate games?

We'll see, but Sony's position in the meantime is pretty unambiguous: Fool with the hack, and you're off the grid for good.

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