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slowmo on 25 April 2010
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Wlakiz said:
slowmo said:

Geohot did not hack the PS3 for piracy, stop spreading FUD please.  Other OS in standard form is still restricted access, the ability to have full access to all the SPE's and the GPU would open up some interesting possibilities from a emulation/mediaplayer point of view.  Not everything is about piracy in the hacking world, although there is a possibility that it would open a door for the pirates to launch their attacks on the system.

Whether this would have made piracy possible or not is irrelevant though it still doesn't change the fact Sony just dumped over millions of consumers rights and you people are still claiming thats a good thing.  How about you stop telling everyone else that they shouldn't be concerned about protecting their rights and just let these threads die.

Its nausicating, how little people know about the PS3 technically. All usable SPEs were already fully opened up since launch. To improve production yield, they disabled one(with efuses), and they reserved one for the OS (THIS WILL NOT CHANGE REGARDLESS IF YOU HACK THE PS3 OR NOT). Through a bug in FW 2.4 or something, people had 70% of the GPU access, and nothing was substainatally made. Emualators for pre-psx (SNES, Genesis..etc) were already runnable.

I don't know what more 'interesting possibilities' you want aside from bootloaders and ability to play 'back ups'.

 

As for the otherOs.. Sony stopped supporting it many moons ago, the otherOS was hanging on the thread of "PS3 hasn't been hacked yet". Mr. GeoHot decided to cut the thread, hence otheros died.

You do not have full access to the GPU, thats the end of your argument right there cheers.

If you don't like Other OS, thats fine but stop telling me I shouldn't be upset Sony have just taken away something I PAID for.  I don't care whatever excuses you say two wrong's don't make a right.  One day all you people supporting Sony doing this will be made to look fools when they remove something you actually need from the console and then they will have a past precident they can fall back on and say it's fine.