One should not attempt soft modding unless they know what they are doing. They know the risks that come with it and if you do your research before hand they would do it right, not to mention most custom firmwares comes with recovery programs where if you happen to brick your console you can boot it into recovery and fix yourself, without the need for Sony.

Like I said before, the scene's benefits FAR outweigh the negatives.

I looked around a little bit earlier for the files to jailbreak my extra PS3 but no luck. I've got to find a downgrader to get back to 3.41 :(.

Not saying it was gonna occur, was just asking. There are lots of people who don't bother removing their card details from PSN, was curious how this affects them.

For me boring...

I don't want HOMEBREWS.
I don't want LINUX.
I don't want PIRACY.

... in my PS3.

IMO.

Edit - I will never use a CUSTOM FIRMWARE becase a I have credit card information in my PS3... and I hate these hacks because I lost features every time.

^I don't think there will be any problems for users if they act responsibly.
I joined the PSP homebrew scene in 2007 and have had zero problems.

It was there yes, but I have doubts it was promised. There were suits against Sony when they removed this, however, because it was not advertized, they failed. Which makes the original point still flawed.

A good example of why homebrew is great for the end user.

I own a Samsung Captivate Android phone. The damn thing is still stuck on 2.1 because Samsung is absolutely incompetent and while HTC and other have jumped to 2.2  Froyo and in some cases 2.3 Gingerbread, Samsung released a halfassed 2.2 to the Canadian users and it bricked tons of phones and now they pulled the update and once again it is delayed.

The 2.1 Eclair ROM runs like shit, it is more of a beta to 100% honest. It is laggy as all hell and after a while it results in temporary lockups that last ~30 seconds at times.

Yeah, it sucks that bad. This is true regardless of whether it is a Captivate, Epic, Vibrant or Fascinate.

Then guess what happens? That is right, here comes the HORRIBLE homebrew community. Yeah you can now sideload apps and not pay for them. I own my pay for apps, which only accounts for Game Dev Story and PSX4Droid V1 & 2. 

However, they have giving me the Cognition ROM, which runs so much better than the shitty stock 2.1 ROM, not to mention I now have all the 2.2 features including Flash support.

So should I shun those people and support Samsung who doesn't give a fuck?

Honestly, try to sit here and tell me that I should.

Like I said, do your research before attempting any sort of softmodding.

The problem you are bringing up has yet to arise on the 360, so I doubt it will happen on PS3.

Anyone acting like piracy will kill a console is kidding themselves just as much.

Just ask the PS2 and Wii if piracy destroyed them.

This is why the whole issue of piracy is overblown. Black Ops was pirated in 2010 more than MW2 was pirated in 2009 if I am not mistaken, but isn't it outselling it in the same span?

But the people here buy consoles just because the ability of run pirated games.