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Comment by smoldesu

I despise Team Xecuter for a number of reasons, but these two exploits aren't necessarily comparable. The Playstation vuln in question would allow people to create pirated Blu-Ray disks that work as-expected on vanilla PS5 models. TX created a custom firmware that required hardmodding your Switch to persist. Nintendo couldn't really wring out TX without proving that their damages went beyond just the owners of hacked Switch consoles, which it certainly didn't. In Sony's case, they could probably sue pretty hard if people started selling pirated or counterfeit PS5 games, since every PS5 owner is effected.

IANAL, but I think you have to keep the scope of the damages in consideration.

parent smoldesu 4 years ago

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