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Hoodieninja on 26 August 2014
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Jimbo1337 said:
Teeqoz said:
Jimbo1337 said:
Teeqoz said:
Jimbo1337 said:
Just read this:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/sony-steals-feature-from-your-playstation-3


"Anonymous had announced on 4 APril that it would attack Sony because the Japanese corporation decided to pursue legal action against George Hotz, who had discovered and then shared the "root key" of the PS3, which would mean that anyone could potentially play any game on it - including pirated ones."

 

Can you blame them for disabling that?

I don't blame them one bit for disabling that.  At the same time, you have to agree that it is messed up to currently own a product that suddenly becomes inferior without any sort of compensation from the corporation.  It was the corporations mistake for this vulnerability, not the consumers fault.


Sure it's Sonys fault for that vulnerability, but should they just have let it be? What choice did they have? Should they give compensation for removing a feature that allows you to play pirated software?

 

PS: I suspect Hoodininja is an FW alt. Ignore him.

Thank you for having a decent conversation unlike Hoodninja who thinks his opinion speaks for everyone. I don't think they should have let it be.  They definitely needed to remove that feature from the PS3 so as to prevent people from pirating software.  The one issue is that some people weren't using this feature to pirate games to begin with.  

Basically, one bad apple ruined the experience for everyone else.  I just feel Sony should have owned up to their mistake.  I understand that not a lot of people cared about the loss of being able to run GNU/Linux (I didn't even care myself).  But honestly, what does it take for people to be in uproar?  If this would have been the ability to play blu-ray movies, then people would be down Sony's throat.  

What I am trying to emphasize is that it is not specifically what they removed, but rather, removing a feature that was already in the hands of the consumer without any sort of compensation and no ownership of their mistake.  They simply turned the blame on the consumer.


Again, nobody really gave a crap except for hackers and pirates. It's a fact.