| lightbleeder said: The argument that once you buy something it's yours to do with it whatever you please is really good. But the world isn't black and white, Sony isn't making a lot of money on PS3 sales, and they made a huge loss the first years. They offered us a great and powerful machine for less that it cost to make it and we should be grateful for it and respect their strategy as a company. Now this hackers are trying to completely eliminate Sony's strategy and by releasing hacks that enables any user to play pirated content, for which obviously Sony doesn't make any profit. What do we want? Do we want that companies like Sony to stop releasing consoles and good developers to stop making games for it? It's not the same as the music, film or TV industries since those can make money from other sources, but videogames are pretty much screwed on piracy, specially for smaller developers.
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Lol, What? you should be pissed at Sony, they shat on the consumers by telling them to get a second job so they could afford a PS3. They put Bluray into the console, this was the main contributer of the high launch price, and their strategy was to use the sucess of the PS2 to advance Bluray. It worked out great for the company, but screwed the gaming dept.
And really, the hacking is not wide spread enough (nor will it ever be) to cause Sony to shut down it's gaming dept. If anything, relaxing their stance on hacking the PS3 would help sell more consoles, it would hurt devs to some extent. At any rate, Sony will not win this fight, if you think they will, then you don't understand hackers AT ALL. It's not just the end result for these guys, it's about the challenge. I have a hacked origional Xbox...I did it myself, for fun, it has no games on it (although at this point it doesn't matter since you can't buy the games new anymore, and it isn't supported on XBL anymore) and I haven't booted the thing up in a couple of months. At any rate, Sony will try to stay ahead of the hackers, and the hackers will continue to hack the PS3, just because they can.
"with great power, comes great responsibility."
