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Kasz216 on 09 April 2010
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greenmedic88 said:
Kasz216 said:

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.

Hardly matters.

First, there are no PS3s being produced that run Linux.

Second, the vast majority of owners who have an older PS3 will simply update the firmware with no regard for the loss of Linux as they, like the vast majority of PS3 owners, had no intention of ever installing Linux.

Add to these the older PS3s that are no longer working.

Ultimately, you're left with a shrinking number of consoles that are capable of having a hardware hack installed on an older console that can run Linux.

Net result: it makes a slightly larger niche market for old PS3s among the small community of users determined to play pirated games.

When found, this solution does nothing for the vast majority of PS3 owners who don't have an older PS3, aren't running Linux, don't have the hardware modifications made to their console and of course the simplest part of playing pirated games: don't have a PC with a BD burner and a stack of BD media.

You're left with a pretty insignificant number of potential pirates who have to leap through quite a few hoops just to play pirated games.

So someone gets a working solution to play pirated games on a software and hardware hacked PS3. Congrats. Really; congrats. It will have taken almost four years. The only benefit for the general public wlll be the inevitable Youtube videos displaying the achievement since it won't help all but a tiny niche of people who are very dedicated to playing pirated games.

SCE isn't concerned with this tiny niche of people that will go through more trouble than it's worth simply because they can.

They're concerned with general piracy among regular consumers who wouldn't have to do anything more than pay their local hardware hacker $50 to install a mod chip and supply them with $10 burned games.

Actually no.  I mean people will work to find a way to hack the actual PS3.  Or even find a way to reset and/or customize the firmware like PSP.


So instead of only old phat systems being able to pirate for the small amount of people who want to find an old PS3 to pirate... they open it up to where every PS3 may end up being pirateable.

Other OS was actually a good diversion to keep the hackers on.