$150 for a skeleton key to the PS3 is asking a lot for anyone who isn't dedicated to stealing as much software as humanly possible, but there are plenty of people who will always want to play more than they are willing or able to afford.
That being said, a utility that allows users to rip BD games to HDD actually has legitmate uses (games loading entirely off of HDD should load and run faster), but ANYBODY who actually pays decent money for this isn't doing so for the convenience factor.
Beyond the convenience, $150 is more or less paying for the ability to pirate/bootleg games and frankly, no one in their right mind should pay for bootlegs, which should be distributed for free, or failing that, stolen. Turnabout is fair play.
Frankly, any support provided by the "original" hardware hack (which in all likelihood was simply taken from a development kit) in the form of firmware updates, can and should be disseminated for free as well.
