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brendude13 on 31 May 2011
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Galaki said:
brendude13 said:
Galaki said:
brendude13 said:

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

I believe you said this?

Unless they are using it for homebrew (which is very unlikely), they will be using it to pirate games and bring the Playstation Network to its knees...And you support this.

In Canada, there's a special tax on blank cd/dvd that the Canadian version of RIAA get a chunk of. That's right, every blank disc, they get money, regardless of its usage because it is assume you're buying the blanks to pirate music.

That's where you want it go, right?

Now now, lets not exaggerate.

Lets just say 10% of those CD's will be used for piracy, whereas 90% of hacked PS3's will be used for piracy.

Throw PSN into the equation which not only affects SONY but it also affects the consumer dramatically.

They aren't even on the same scale...

There's a push to impose a tax on flash cards. Something like $3 on an 8GB sd card.

Again, just because someone else make use of the same tool illegally shouldn't penalize you. Why the hell do you have to pay $3 tax but you didn't use it to pirate music? And you have to pay $3 even if you use it for your camera? Etc...

The point is that, how you use the tool dictate whether it's good or bad. Find a way to penalize the ones that do wrong instead of lumping everyone together and assume everyone did wrong.

Cars kill people all the time, but you don't see cars being illegal. We penalize the bad drivers.

Stoping hacking ISN'T penalizing, about 5 people are going to be pissed off because they can't do homebrew on their PS3 anymore.

What I am trying to say is that barely anybody is going to use a hacked PS3 for lawful purposes, and preventing hacking isn't penalizing anybody, SONY aren't taking away anything that they sold to you.

The only thing they really took away was the Other OS option, which I think they should have left in but it WAS prone to hacking, the problem is, removing it just attracted more attention from hackers.