It was in the best intrests of the majority to remove a feature the majority never used and therefore were never at risk of anything... by screwing over a minority of people who used this and who are the only people effected.
Yeah... ok Sony.
People who think Sony doing this is a positve need a major reality check.
Hell this isn't even going to slow down piracy, if anything it will probably lead to a piracy solution quicker because Sony decided to anatagonize people who use Linux on the PS3... aka hackers... and also basically threw down a gauntlet to a bunch of other people.
To prevent piracy they are harming completly innocnent people. That is pure unadulterated BS.