Sony makes yet another major mistake

[Hyruken]

Jay520 said:

Hyruken said:

Just saw this on the news! Seems to have spread quite quickly.

The way they are reporting it is to basically say you don't own anything you buy from Sony and if you do anything to their product they will come raid you!

Which makes no sense to me....

If i buy anything that product becomes mine, i should be able to blow it up, jam megadrive cartridges in the cd player, paint it purple, do anything i like to it.

 

Sony doesn't care if you hack your console. They just don't want you to release the tools to do so all over the world, where everyone (including pirates, cheaters, etc) can use those tools to do dirty things. 

Now I'm not against hacking or anything, but if this is the only thing that sony can do to stop the pirates, then I don't know what else Sony shoud do. I'm assuming it's easier to stop one guy from releasing information to everyone  than it is to stop every individual pirate/cheater that uses the information. 

As i have said three times now people read the word "hacker" and assume what they guy is doing = bad.

People really need to go read up on what he has done as it just makes you look ignorant. Like sticking the knife into someone even though they haven't done anything wrong.

In this guys case he researched into how to re-use Linux on his PS3. For those of you who don't know or simply don't care recently Sony de-activated the abilty to use it in our PS3's. Most of us don't give a shit as we are not clever enough to be able to use our computers like that anyway.

This guy designed a way for himself to re-activate it. He didn't leak it onto the net, he didn't share it with anyone else.

What he did today was show others his research IDA database, for the PS3's Hypervisor and Hypervisor processes. Do any of you even know what that is? That doesn't mean you install a mod which means you can then go play Black Ops and cheat. It doesn't mean you can play pirated games. It is just a database....

His argument which is similiar to other cases is that when he bought his PS3 (he didn't steal it, Sony got his cash) it said it used Linux. It was then de-activated. Forcing him to use what Sony wanted him to use. He then worked out how to re-activate it or was at the very least trying to work out how with a group of others behind closed doors. He argues that a feature he had when he bought the console is now not there anymore. To lots of people i.e you and me it makes no difference. To some it does. The point is if you had something in your console and then it was taken away is it right to punish someone if they continue to use that feature? By doing so how does that hurt anyone else or cost Sony money?

The guy wasen't making pirated games, wasen't putting codes up on how to hack something, didn't design any software for the public to use to give them an advantage in games and so on.

You need to be able to seperate the two things. Pirating = bad. If you do that you deserve whatever you get. Unlocking features in your product that you once had and were then stopped = your choice as long as it doesn't effect anyone or make anyone lose money.

He should be able to do whatever he wants with his PS3 as long as he doesn't use it to pirate. He hasen't done that.