| .jayderyu said: Nice chart. I remember seeing one at the Hackers Homebrew convention. Could it be possibly that one? Even if it isn't there was very clear context when the homebrew community post the same chart. The reason that the homebrew hackers didn't bother hacking the PS3 was because they could already execute homebrew/custom code. That's the context that is being missed. The people who first hack the machine are generally only wanting to use the machine for personal uses and typicly very tame. Once custom code can be executed the pirate coders jump in and start working to do what they want. Since Other OS provided a sandbox environment there was never any major push to work around the security measures. Now that's gone. I assure you the gauntlet has been delivered and the war has begun. Who will win. I garuntee you it's not Sony.
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If homebrewers hack to engage in homebrew and either 1) keep it to themselves, or 2) pass out information that leads to homebrew capability but not to piracy of a system's games, then what you say makes sense. Typically they don't stick to that though, so the justification fails.
In reality they want glory or they support piracy, and that's something different, it's not merely tinkering with homebrew for their own amusement.
Smart at tinkering but too dumb to see that their actions aren't justified by their words and finger-pointing.
