Exactly! 'Lack thereof' never seemed more appropriate.

Since Sony can't even nail down who a PSN account belongs to then there is no way to even nail down the EULA. Seems to me breach of contract doesn't even apply here as you have no proof of "signature".

"if you want your next console to be secure give me a call."

But they fail to mention, he never asked for any gain from said "call". Maybe he wants to help for free for the learning experience of working with new encryption technology.

BTW, the Cyber-squatting was case referenced not anything they accused him of.

Man, would that piss Sueny off!

Quoting usjbroly:

But there is a VERY HIGH chance he has done so. he wasnt hacking the ps3 from day 1 and so is likely to have used PSN just as we ordinary mortals do before he began hacking work.

"ordinary mortals"...seriously...

Funny how you assume a multinational company must be right, just because they're huge. It's fallacious, and downright stupid, so you shouldn't be calling anyone middle schoolers here. I might not be a lawyer, but I took an A Level in Law and probably know a lot more about it than you do, and apparently a bit more than Sony does.

First thing first; Sony is not a law firm. They don't know jack shit about the law, because they don't need to. That's what they have lawyers for. Unfortunately for them, the lawyers work for money, so they have no reason to turn down a case that Sony is willing to chase because that would be stupid on behalf of the law firm. There's your first mistake. It doesn't matter how good your lawyers are if you have a shitty case.

Secondly, proving that Hotz registered a PSN account will prove nothing other than he breached the terms of the End User License Agreement, which is not enough to prosecute him, so there's no way this will lead to jail time for Hotz. He might be sued penniless and left unable to pay the fees, leaving Sony at a total financial loss in the unlikely event they win, but it isn't his freedom at stake here.

Third, and lastly, how the hell can you defend the intelligence of a company who inadvertantly but predictably directed a shit load of media attention towards the security flaws in the system? Seriously. Hotz has appeared on TV interviews, he's had articles written about him on the BBC and lord knows what else. Millions who otherwise wouldn't have known about the hacks now do.

On top of that, you seem to be forgetting where all this started; Sony failed to get a simple fucking random number generator right, which rendered a nearly perfect multi-million pound security system completely useless. You talked about middle school, so I take it you've made it past middle school, right? Well, watch fail0verflow's demonstration and explanation of how they calculated the keys, then come back and tell me Sony must be right because they're big and clever.