Hacking Group: "It's the beginning of the end for Sony"

[Kasz216]

NJ5 said:

brendude13 said:

NJ5 said:

Another one who thinks people don't have the right to hack stuff that belongs to them?

That has been discussed at length in other threads. I guess you belong to the team which thinks consoles still belong to Sony after they already sold them. So nothing new to argue about here either...

Pffft, you honestly defend piracy?

Read my post again... or any of the other posts I wrote in this thread. What makes you think I'm defending piracy?

General ignorance?  A lot of people seem to think hacking = piracy... even though that's specifically not the case.  I mean, I guess nobody knows anybody with an Iphone.

Something to consider is that... basically every consumer appliance you own today has firmware.  From your microwave to your freaking car.

Taking away the right to crack and modify hardware can lead to some SERIOUS issues.

One that already presnts itself with cars is that a lot of mechanics can't do work on new cars, because the dealers hold on to the firmware pretty tightly so you have to use dealer shops to get a lot of work done.

Heck sometimes they force you to pay to upgrade your firmware, to fix mistakes... they made in their fucking firmware!

Soon we'll get to the point where firmwares have "bugs" that crash on certain dates, and you have to pay subscription fees to update your firmware and make your products still useable.