The difference is that dear Georgie deliberately publicised his endeavour with no remorse, regret or guilt. While you may agree or disagree with what Georgie did and his stance on an ethical level, I'm considering Gembe's ordeal under the idea that he felt genuine remorse and was apologetic for what he had done but, despite this, Valve felt the need to wreak their tubby fat-fingered judgement upon him, mostly for what can be considered a victimless (and lossless) crime, making it pretty petty from my stance.
The GeoHotz debacle is different in the sense that he hacked his own equipment (fine) and then publicised how he had done it (ethically debatable). Gembe hacked another company's servers (very, very stupid and very, very not fine) and then went on to unwittingly spread the HL2 source code he found and compiled (accident, arguably an innocent mistake, ultimately still stupid) but felt regret, confessed to what he had done and apologised (he wins brownie points for this aspect
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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope
The difference is that dear Georgie deliberately publicised his endeavour with no remorse, regret or guilt. While you may agree or disagree with what Georgie did and his stance on an ethical level, I'm considering Gembe's ordeal under the idea that he felt genuine remorse and was apologetic for what he had done but, despite this, Valve felt the need to wreak their tubby fat-fingered judgement upon him, mostly for what can be considered a victimless (and lossless) crime, making it pretty petty from my stance.
