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Icyedge on 01 April 2010
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joeorc said:
Icyedge said:
Please do not close this thread, its nice for people that use "otherOS" to keep using it in conjuncture with PSN, as theyve always been able to do. If they hack, then ban their console from PSN exactly like Microsoft did. Thats the right thing to do, instead of banning everyone that use "otherOS" from PSN. The only positive thing from this, is the message that it sends to hackers and developers, but that doesnt justify the end anyway considering the risk is light. The risk will be bigger in the future, but please, the slim doesnt even have "otherOS". Its only a selected few that will be able to perform this hack, heres are the factor:

Owner of a fat PS3
Blu ray burner
High bandwith or renting games or lending games
Connaisance in technology to perform the hack

Out of the people that fit those criterias, only a few will actually want to hack. We know where it starts, but where does it stop if everyone agree its the right thing to do? People should think about this. Other company may do the same thing if we as consumers, agree its the right thing to do. I know its not a big deal since only 1% of PS3 owner use this function, but is it really morally correct for a company to do that? Where does it stop?

yes while i agree with you, I am very pro Linux. I use it every day, but Geohot did not need to make a board shocker! he could of used Linux without doing that just because at first he said he was not going to release on how he did it, than he went on ahead and released the info.

he could have made homebrew without doing what he did.

hell even BD-JAVA is an option for Homebrew it's one thing to support Homebrew, but when you make a hack that you know full darn well that it would lead to piracy, than something has to give.

Sony's already had to deal with this on the PSP so Hacker's can do anything they want but if their hack is detrimental to the sales of software than that's a whole new problem.

it seem's no matter what people seem to want Sony's game software but there is very many that do not want to pay for it.

when the PS3 sell's software but sofar none of their single software game's  has sold over 5 million yet. where as Both Nintendo and Microsoft has had software selling into the near 10 or more million's.

can you blame Sony for being agressive toward piracy?

 

 

We cannot blame them for being agressive toward piracy, but we can surely blame them for removing a feature to people that wouldnt hack anyway. Its not like hacking a PS3 is easy to hack to begin with + the slim cannot. But I agree we can also blame Geohot. Its rare I dont agree with you on your whole argument ;).