Pirates are thieves, plain and simple. It does affect sales and more importantly it drives up costs. Would ever single pirated game translate to a sale if there were no pirating... NO, but some most definately would.
There is no reason to hack a PS3 except to steal games. If you want homebrew, use your PC. It is far better for that sort of thing. If you want to hack a PS3 to play PS2 games, uhm, buy a PS2, they are cheap.







