sony's illegal business practice!!!!!!!

[joeorc]

yinkadare said:

slowmo said:

joeorc said:

thranx said:

emo_parker said:
What a waste of internet space this guy is..

Lets sue Microsoft for removing the old blade interface.

Lets sue Sony for removing the old crappy html PSN store.

You must not understand what this is about. It is about consumers getting what is advertised. Using other OS was advertised as someting the ps3 could do, and was touted as an attribute to the ps3. The blade interface was not, neither was the old psn store, both of which you have substitutes for mind you. This about something being taken away from a system that may have been the reason a person bought it. very different from what you said

AND IT STILL CAN!

if you choose not to update you can still use linux...yes or No?

if you choose not too do you still have the function of Linux..yes or no?

Has sony informed the Owner's of the Phat PS3 what they would loose access too before they decide to not update ..yes or no?

the point being is Sony is covered. it's still as advertised, with changes's to How OTHER OS FUNCTION WORK'S! it works prior to 3.21

before there was not CON's to using Linux. On the PS3, Now there is due to security concern's which Sony did tell the consumer before they released this update to be used or not used.

the point is how much does Linux mean to you

if its very important, than do not update. and you still get to keep Linux.

so sony is not forcing the consumer to update, you can choose not too therefore it's still work's as advertised.

Stop spinning and defending Sony, THEY ARE FORCING people to choose Other OS or potentially kill their PS3 for gaming.  This is forcing people to choose, therefor it is a forced decision.  Fair enough if you don't think its a big issue but the fact remains this is a mandatory update if you want PSN right now and in the future it will be mandatory for new games.  Pros and cons don't matter to a consumer, a feature that was present on their console when bought is being taken away, that is WRONG.

That's no different than companies putting in anti-piracy features to force people to purchase games instead of burning them.  Let's sue those companies for forcing people to actually pay for games instead of pirating them!

it's also about compatability if making the security more robust to protect consumer's right's also and yet you have hacker's wanting to make CFW's anyway even without Sony removing OtherOS what's the point in not doing anything. At least this is more protection, some here stated Sony did not have to remove Linux, you know if Linux would have stayed in that it would not pose more of a security risk?.

but geohot already stated he opened it completely up. How do we know?

the point is prevention of further attack's is what Sony went for. with this why would Sony not leave it if Linux was not going to pose more of a threat? It must pose some threat, if they are indeed taking it out.

the line has to be drawn somewhere. I can understand people being pissed about the Other OS function as many are saying " being forced to being removed" But you also have to look at it from, if your system is online and people with mod chiped PS3's which from a perspective has no valid reason for the system to be mod chipped anyway. than what's to stop people from doing other thing's on PSN with those mod chipped PS3's.