| jneul said: yeah but disabling 3rd party usb's also insures that if they do develop another way to get them working later on they wont be able to use the usb stick method anymore at all now, the other one was just a quick fix, it also means they can still use their own usb sticks as they belong to them so they can still fix broken ps3's just thinking out aloud of course, why else would they disable 3rd part usb devices, it makes no sense at all.... |
they didn't disable 3rd party devices. They disabled unliscensed devices. Legally they are allowed to restrict their machine to run with only liscensed devices if they wish. It is 100% to force customers to buy liscensed products that provide Sony money. ok, you might be able to sneak a small percentage in there for piracy. The only anti-piracy thing this prevents is stopping those who don't pirate yet from having an easy opening, but they didn't stop anyone who already is.
