Shhh!

don't tell them that!

the meltdowns on this thread are amusing

Oops  Sorry...

Carry on people, nothing to see here

Luckily Sony has tons of lawyers working for them, so don't think you saw this before them. They've got it covered.

while I admit I indeed thought it was a prank, and I was wrong,

but to get back to the real core Issue:

Why was it done:

this I think sum's it up pretty darn well:

Geohot-

"This is the coveted PS3 exploit, gives full memory access and therefore ring 0 access from OtherOS. Enjoy your hypervisor dumps. This is known to work with version 2.4.2 only, but I imagine it works on all current versions. Maybe later I'll write up how it works "

he even went sofar as to say this:

while I must take my hat off to GeoHot, you don't say thing's like this :

"Enjoy your hypervisor dumps."

expect a Company to not do every thing in their power to protect their software sales of their software and other's

an  when you have Media coverage with this:

PlayStation 3 finally hacked thanks to GeoHot

How? Besides the fact that I shouldn't need anyone's permission to use an advertised feature that I paid for, I see nothing on the Playstation Blog regarding this.

I noticed you state you payed for LINUX?

because Sony did not charge you for LINUX it was free, unless you payed for YDL but even than YDL was even handed out free also.

the very fact when Media was posting thing's like this:

with:

statement's like these it's no wonder Sony did what they did:

"Well, surely it’s a good news for all hackers and pirates in the gaming community"

"getting a huge number of pirated games online"

when GeoHotz- stated this

""Hacking is breaking the security of the system, which I have done," Hotz responded. "I'm not spending my time writing custom firmware, ISO loaders, and an open SDK. Leave that to somebody else..."

and he states this:

“The hack would allow people to play older PS2 games on their consoles,” says the BBC, “recent versions of the PS3 do not have the ability to play PS2 games after Sony controversially removed a piece of hardware.”

Naturally, Geohot then admitted that it could also allow people to run pirated games.  “I’m not going to personally have anything to do with that,” he said.

But

on the same token HE did have something to do with it  HE RELEASED HIS EXPLOIT, AN HIM KNOWING FULL WELL THAT IT COULD allow people to run pirated software.

what he does with his own ps3 is fine an dandy but allowing other's to do so also by helping them to do it

is having something to do with it.

so once again what would he expect Sony to do.

Hacking is great and all but when the result's of that  hacking you know would incite the use of your hack to cause piracy, than it's upto you with what you do with that , by putting it on the internet free for anyone to use. you would have to expect the same measure of resolve by the company who's product you hacked to protect that security exploit no matter if you intend for it to be just to show proof you did something like Hack a device. hacking can be a good thing , but also hacking does have sometime's a negative effect.

tl;dr
Your posts are a bit incoherrent. The "Other OS" feature is part of the package I paid for.

the thing is that the ps3 slim doesnt hav it anymore so since the law is regarding the current unit in sales then it sais the ps3 doesnt actualy hav this aplication so sony are free to remove it

That doesn't even make sense, like most of what the apologists write. So if a new model of Ford doesn't include an mp3 player, Ford can go to your old car and rip the mp3 player out?

that's like saying you paid for the web browser?

comeon do you pay for a web browser?

look While i understand why you are upset, you also have to understand that just because a software feature can be removed does not mean it could not come back.

so keep doing what your doing and the playstation blog now has a new feature, you may want to use it:

http://share.blog.us.playstation.com/

tell them you want it back in. while your at it tell them that the slim need's it also. and that

the Playstation 3 need linux on a Live Boot disc.

if your that upset you may want to give Sony some ideas on how to stop this exploit that is prone to incite piracy, so if you want to help give them some pointer's over at Sony please doso that's what the blog share is for. If you don't think you should have too, than that's fine also but also Sony on the other hand does not think they should have to deal with exploit's that make it even easier for pirates to pirate their playstation 3 software.