fordy said:
I agree. Piracy is bad, but punishing those who have no intention of piracy is just as bad. Where is the justification for control over hardware purchased by somebody else, in order to control the few bad eggs? There's been a lot of shooting sprees over there lately, should you take all the guns away in response? If it were government, many would accuse it of being this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny_state ...and when it's a multinational conglomerate, in many ways it's much worse. This is no different to Sony's rootkit scandal. Hidden rootkits were placed on a user's computer in order to track how they were using their music disc. In other words, punishing all in order to subdue the few... $599 was the original price. I believe there were one or two price cuts before the Slim model came out, too. People were still looking at it as a game system/media player, probably just like the Xbox 360. Who is to say that Sony's decision to include Linux capability was enough to sway those who were "sitting on the fence" into Sony's court? |
"in order to control the few bad eggs?"
the few bad...? you may disagree but i'd say without a doubt that the majority of people that hack their consoles do it solely to pirate games
so i suppose when you and others speak of liberty and user freedom one question that comes up is does that apply to any activity the user can partake in? regardless of how those activities may have a negative effect on others?
it seems to me that the only thing that matters to some people is that the hackers get what they want but beyond that other ps3 owners and the people who provide content for the platform don't really matter
"$599 was the..."
that doesn't answer my question at all, this was my question
"$600 dollars for a device to run linux is cheap? what would you usually pay on a pc for linux?"
