| lightbleeder said: The argument that once you buy something it's yours to do with it whatever you please is really good. But the world isn't black and white, Sony isn't making a lot of money on PS3 sales, and they made a huge loss the first years. They offered us a great and powerful machine for less that it cost to make it and we should be grateful for it and respect their strategy as a company. Now this hackers are trying to completely eliminate Sony's strategy and by releasing hacks that enables any user to play pirated content, for which obviously Sony doesn't make any profit. What do we want? Do we want that companies like Sony to stop releasing consoles and good developers to stop making games for it? It's not the same as the music, film or TV industries since those can make money from other sources, but videogames are pretty much screwed on piracy, specially for smaller developers.
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You realize that the exact same thing can be said about the Xbox 360 right? They were taking loses on each console sold and it was hacked within a year. MS used the same strategy as Sony and they are doing fine with the 360 as will Sony. People are over exaggerating the effects of this hack. The 360 has many times more modded consoles than the PS3 and always will, and the Xbox online isn't filled with hackers and pirates. Yes they exist, but they are few and far between. As long as Sony keeps releasing good games, they will make plenty of money.
The Wii is also modded and look how much money it has made. Folks need to stop being over dramatic.
