Rummor: Sony will ban all Jailbroken PS3's Firmeware 3.6

[Bokal]

ssj12 said:

Bokal said:

Yes, they should be banned...

And then stop looking after modders, it's enough loss and restrictions in the official firmware.
And besides playing games for free, some modders sometimes do interesting stuff (see xbmc), so stop trying to prevent it so much, something interesting can come out of here. Banning from PSN should be enough as nowadays playing offline only removes half the fun and would be enough to prevent most people turning to the dark side.

well.. why does everyone screw up terms, there is a vast difference then modders, programmers, hackers, and pirates.

Modders do this http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/07/rainbow-six-mod-1.jpg

Programmers do this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SusxH3kknQE

Hackers do this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/palins-email-account-hack_n_127184.html

Pirates do this: http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf

Well, actually, in this case, I think I'm right.

We're talking about a modification of the original software to make in run game copies, aren't we?
So... the people making the modifications are modders.
I'm not talking about the people using the modifications, but the programmers that write the mods.

Hackers has different meanings, sometimes a security expert that uses his knowledge to mess with software (making servers die, take control of a server or gain access to information), sometimes a security expert that uses his knowledge to fill the holes in security on a system, sometimes (in the free software community) a normal programmer with no special field of knowledge who just spend time making software better, sometimes (original meaning if I'm right, I'm still french and my english is far from perfect) it's a guy in his garage fixing the vacuum cleaner with a pipe and toilet paper, etc...
But the guy hacking the sarah palin account is hardly a hacker. He's smart, for sure, but filling the password field of a webpage doesn't make you a hacker.

I don't stand corrected :)