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Who will eventually win in the end? Sony or hackers?

Sony 81 34.62%
 
Hackers 76 32.48%
 
Nintendo and Microsoft 18 7.69%
 
The US Government 10 4.27%
 
I just wanna see the results 48 20.51%
 
Total:233
IamAwsome on 05 April 2011

Ok so it has to be asked, will Sony or hackers win in the end.

PROLOUGE-With hackers engaging in an all out war with Sony, and Sony, cracking down on Geohot's website, who knows what will happen next.

In all honesty, I think Sony wil eventually win. No matter how hard Geohot pushes that he doesn't condone piracy, he still hacked the PS3, and Sony still considers that a breach of the PSN contract. If Sony has control to any IP adress that visit's Geohot's site, they will probably fine anybody else with a hacked PS3, and reap all of the rewards. As long as the government leans this in Sony's favor (they have been doing this by giving Sony IP's) Sony has the big advantage. As much as I would like to run OtherOS on my PS3, I don't think Geohot will prevail and enable me to do so.



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A Bad Clown on 05 April 2011

Sony will probably win the legal battle, then the government will make console jailbreaks legal (like they did with cell phones), and people will stoping caring.



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Ssenkahdavic on 05 April 2011

One thing is for sure.


I lose.



 

  

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radiantshadow92 on 05 April 2011

Neither will every win. Hackers are going to hack everything and the companies are going to have to defend everything. Just the way life goes sadly =l



arcane_chaos on 05 April 2011

I think Sony will come on top, but lose some recognition somehow...I think Sony (definitely) has the money and (maybe) the techies to draw this battle out, I don't think Anon will have the drive to drag this battle out(if it becomes one)

or if Geohot wins his case, they really would have nothing to fight for.



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ethomaz on 05 April 2011

Sony I hope.



mornelithe on 06 April 2011

Geohot v Sony, not sure.  I want Sony to win, but whether that happens or not has yet to be decided.  Sony v Hackers?  The hackers may find themselves waging one too many 'wars' against one too many really strong governments.  I think what'll eventually happen is a few of them will be found, examples will be made.  Serious examples.  And it'll quiet down again.  I don't really think many people are going to give a bunch of 'activists' any serious consideration, when they aren't even passionate enough to do something about it in public view.  It's real easy to lob threats over the internet and most people are pretty accustomed to dealing with trolls, with an in one ear out the other approach, these days.



Gilgamesh on 06 April 2011

Sony's already won. They let hackers know that if your gonna f*ck with our product there's going to be consequences.



kibebr on 06 April 2011

Sony already won, I agree with the post before...

This actions just prove how wrong this hackers are... open private information, what is the purpose of that? cyber-terrorism.



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BMaker11 on 06 April 2011
RolStoppable said:

The more you fight piracy, the more resistance there will be. And having a system that is supposedly unhackable will only encourage hackers more.

The battle against piracy usually leads to honest customers suffering, like all that DRM stuff on the PC. People who actually buy the game have to deal with crap while the pirates enjoy superior versions of the same game.

Now the thing with Geohot hacking the PS3 and Sony taking him to court is something that I honestly don't quite understand. What is the big deal? A console open to piracy sees an increase in hardware sales. There will always be people who don't buy any games, but if the hardware is sold at a profit, it ultimately doesn't hurt the company much. It's not like every pirated copy translates to a lost sale.

Sony should have just accepted that their console was finally open to piracy and enjoyed how easy the PS3 would overtake the 360 in lifetime sales. Also, I am pretty sure they have the necessary tools to identify people who cheat on PSN and the like and kick them from their servers.

Not so fast there. PSP, anyone? Not to mention a decrease in software sales because people won't find the need to buy games anymore. And guess who makes games? Sony, right? So that does affect them.

Not to mention 3rd parties, as well