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Now that Sony's security has been breached, instead of trying to fight hackers and stop homebrew and piracy, Sony should embrace homebrew. Sony could use the PSN Store, like an App store to sell or offer for free, Sony endorsed homebrews. I think they should do this for many reasons.

1. People looking for homebrew will check the PSN instead of venturing off in to teh internets and learning how to do it the hacker way. Which is a great defense because even if a PS3 user isn't interested in piracy to begin once they learn how to use home brew and get involved in that world it's really tempting not to play some free games just to see if you'd like them when it's just a download away, then it's really tempting to stop buying games completely once you've played some for free. So if they keep that group of people on the PSN, and feed their curiosity of homebrew they can keep them from being tempted to pirate games. 

2. Sony can make some money off of the homebrew by selling "apps" for a few dollars. 

3. Many of the hackers would be enticed to have their homebrews put up on the PSN where it can reach a much larger userbase and it could potentially earn them some money. 

4. It's a selling feature that may push people to purchase a PS3.

5. Many gamers will love them for it.