Sony to answer Geohot's hack by removing other OS support ?

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vlad321 said:

GodOfWar_3ever said:

vlad321 said:
Posting in here because I found this to be the best feature the PS3 had, ability to have a form of OS running on it. Really sad to see this go.

Also to people blaming piracy, please stop, it's Sony doing this, not the pirates.

Everything happens for a reason...Sony is doing this because of piracy, so it is the pirates fault..Sony have no choice..

No they do have a choice. They choice not to remove the OS. Most hackers don't even do it to pirate, they do it because it's a challenge. So please blame the people who are to blame and don't use a scapegoat. Sony is boning their customers, plain and simple.

While hackers do sometimes (not always) do it purely for the challenge of it. its pretty easy to see (psp and DS are a prime example, more so psp) that most people that use the hacks that these hackers develop for the challenge of it, do end up pirating in some form. Piracy in any shape or form only results in losers, from publishers to developers to gamers themselfs.

As for otherOs, yes its a big pain the ass that its going. for homebrew developers, linux on a ps3 is the cheapest method to programming for the cell architecture, for universities it was a cheap way of building a powerful beowolf cluster. I do feel sorry for them, but I don't think for a moment that sony is using the "piracy scapegoat" to screw those user over. They sell the console at a loss, still do, any _remote_ risk to game sales they simply got to stamp down else they might as well take the system off the market.

so lets just sum up. Sony have a fully hacked console which has insane piracy (Psp). PS3 got its hypervisor compromised via otherOS, Sony have responded by filing a patent on the hack methodology and are going to completely stamp out OtherOS for all of those actively using their ps3 for online gaming. They just can't afford the risk. period. Grow up and look at the bigger picture.