Sony makes yet another major mistake

[Uraeus]

Hyruken said:

radiantshadow92 said:

Hyruken said:

In contrast other companies actually support this work. Look at whats happened with Kinect. All those hacks for it that people came up with. You don't see Microsoft beating down some dudes door taking away his Kinect dancing robot because that wasen't what the device was designed for! You don't see Android beating down all the doors of the people who create stuff for its open source networ

Can anyone even use kinect to hack into xbox live and compromise security for microsoft? If not, then its a lot different than hacking the ps3 and microsoft simply doesn't lose anything from it.

I have no idea. But neither of the hackers who Sony went after did that either. Which again prooves my point that people see the word "hacker" and assume they must be doing something really bad like exploiting/pirating...

Comparing Kinect hacking with the breaking of the Sony security model is pretty far fetched, to compare apples to apples here, Sony didn't go after anyone for making drivers for the EyeToy for use with Windows or Linux systems either.

As for the moral of the hackers involved, I don't think they are bad people, they have a very good point about people being allowed to install whatever they want on a system they own. However pretending that the major outcome of the hacking is that you be able to install a freeware copy of tetris on your system is acting delusional. No matter what the intent of the hackers where the direct result of their actions have been that game studios risk lower sales due to piracy and fellow gamers will get less enjoyment out of their games due to people cheating. And for a system which 99% buy to play games I think that the 'cost' of reduced game enjoyment isn't compensated for by the ability to run random apps on the PS3. Other people can differ on that point of course, but I don't think it is an unfair position to take.