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Wonktonodi on 13 April 2010
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Euphoria14 said:
Wonktonodi said:
Euphoria14 said:
Kasz216 said:
I feel like most of the people in this thread didn't read the entire article and stopped short of where they mention that hackers have been a good thing for consumers and the videogame industry and that Sony was in a moral grey area for taking out Other OS.

Of course they didn't read the entire thing. Everyone knows that every single hackers is only in it for piracy and not about opening up game modding options, homebrew apps, adding console functionality, etc...

 

People seem to lump all hackers/modders into this "piracy" group and it is quite ignorant of them to do so.

or they think of them as enablers or accomplices.  They might not be the ones pirating the games (although some surly are) they are the ones who get past locks and open the doors. 

I guess so are the people who sell guns or the department stores that sell kitchen knives.

 

Just because someone decides to use the opened system to commit piracy doesn't warrant anyone here labeling the original hacker as a thief or accomplice.

 

Back in the PS2 days there was a mod chip called "Crystal Chip". The creators did not endorse piracy and shipped all chips with firmware that only allowed for the use of homebrew because they locked out the use of backups and such.

It was open to the ability of custom firmwares though and we soon had custom CC firmware that allowed for all of those homebrew uses as well as opened up the ability to load backup discs.

 

Should we blame the Crystal team?

No, we should blame those who made the custom CC firmware.

well in the case of the crystal team they at least tried to make sure that those who entered the door they opend behaved properly many hackers don't do that.   You're more likely to get people to agree that some hackers are good instead of trying to get people to think only some hackers are bad.