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Izo on 14 December 2011
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fordy said:
Izo said:

As far as its concerned the case was thrown out. Sony isnt teading on personal propierty rights thats the way you take it.

1. OtherOS was a rarely used feature and blueray playback/usb ports are not. 2. Sony has to face the reaction for removing a feature that everyone uses. Would I be pissed if they removed a feature like that? Yes  Is it the same as removing a underused feature in order to protect themselve? No and thats the relm of reason. People blew this issue out of the water even if they didn't use linux on ps3. Legit users have a right to be pissed but they had a choice to keep it. 

2. Accutally they gave you the choice to keep your oh so important feature or use there FREE service that they dont have to offer in the first place and since its obv. the better choice people picked it instead and then complained about OtherOS.

Your expression is that of 2 negatives. This is a situation of picking OtherOS or a free service. 


I'm willing to bet that the majority of users don't use the USB ports, so your argument is pretty pointless there. Yes, people blew it out of the water, but if you were given a choice of sacrificing one feature, or another (or possibly two. We need to see whether some more recent games require firmware updartes after OtherOS removal), you'd be pretty ticked off, too.

I'm going to say this right now; there is no such thing as a free lunch. You want a service you have to pay for it. Believe it or not, you may THINK that PSN is free, but it's basically paid for by the savings of bypassing personal property rights. Once again, this is supposed to be a level playing ground. If other companies are playing fair, why is Sony the ones who are cheating? Wouldn't you call that gaining an upper-hand on competitors?

Oh, and by the way, if it was just a matter of blocking the OtherOS users from PSN, then it would be fine. However, there is great concern that more recent games have the possibility of not working on the older firmware that these users are stuck with for staying with OtherOS.

Alot of users do need the USB port for move so its widely used. If they do force updates on disc that require removal of OtherOS to play it. That's a legit issue if its true. That would be pretty easy to prove and Sony couldn't win that.

PSN is still free no matter what you say. They didn't remove OtherOS to bypass your rights it was a secruity risk. Any company can do anything they want with a free service they dont owe it to you. They do however owe any ps3 owner the ability to play ps3 games no matter how new.  What upper hand is Sony getting by removing an undereused secruity risk while giving you the option of ussing it or there free service. I wonder if people think they wanted to get rid of it just to do it.

Again taking away the ability to play new games is a completely reasonable issue and no one can defend it. If that is indeed true.