Hahahaha that's Karma for everyone! I'm glad they're being bricked.

...It doesn't bother me that much? If that's what you were trying to do.

Or buy a 360 instead (or focus more on theirs if they already have one). This is a huge win for Microsoft finacially. I think being vindictive against individuals for using homebrew on their own consoles is strange enough, but it's stranger still when you see Sony fans cheering even though Sony as a company will be hit hard by this. But to each their own :P

How is Sony being hit hard by people being bricked by homebrew? ....and how does Microsoft benefit from that?

Early homebrewers that do it to tinker are normally among the most hardcore gamers that buy the most games. No console to play games on means they can't buy games and Sony loses out on royalties. Worse they could give the 360 a try rather than buy another PS3 or just play on their existing 360 more. If my PS3 got bricked because I wanted to get roms on it I would just be playing my 360 instead. In the end the company that gets money from me is the company that I have a working console for.

Unless Sony starts to make good money on hardware they only lose out when customers have their console bricked. The small profit margins now will just be absorbed with shipping costs and having to re-issue a warranty for an new console.

This isn't a moral argument for me, it's just a financial one.

This is good news. Hope sony does what mchaza wrote on the first place, would be awesome to see

actually on the sixthaxis they said it's the slims that brick:

With all the news about breached security, homebrew and Sony taking hackers to court, the underlying allure of installing custom firmware on the PS3 is still something a lot of people are interested in. Whether they simply want to return OtherOS to their machines, mess around with emulators or pirate games is beside the point. We here at TheSixthAxis do not recommend dabbling about in the custom pond for one simple reason: you could irreparably damage your console.

Case in point, the recently released CFW 3.55 which, according to the very community that are driving custom firmware development, appears to have bricked a number of consoles. Hacker Waninkoko (hackinblack on Twitter) announced today:

Yay! It’s coming! Custom Firmware v3.55 for PS3 released!

Only to be followed 19 minutes later with:

Do NOT install in Slim consoles! Looks like users are reporting bricking issues. That’s weird as the CFW was tested on both models. Well… I don’t know if those problems are real or just jokes. As I said, some testers tried this and worked in both models.

Brickage was confirmed a few minutes later when an apology was also issued:

I’m sorry for all the consoles that have died, this was unexpected :S

The coding elite over at NeoGaf, watching from the sidelines as the nightmare of PS3s dying around the hacking world unfolded, have chimed in, warning interested parties of the inherent perils of going rogue.

Apparently the guy who made this messed with lvl2 to make it accept a bigger payload, this is why random consoles are killing themselves. lesson = let the guinea pigs go first.

Sure, it’s early days yet and, who knows, it’s very likely the hacking community will iron out these issues and create a safe, robust custom firmware. Then all you have to worry about is Uncle Sony nuking your PS3 from orbit. Seriously, there will always be those who get a kick out of circumventing security measures; the challenge of cracking what is perceived as the uncrackable sublimely attractive.

For the rest of us, be aware that you not only risk losing your PS3 altogether (either now or in the future when your CFW may be detected) but will likely spend more time updating and tweaking your console rather than what it’s actually intended for: playing games.

TheSixthAxis does not condone piracy and does not recommend the modification of your console – doing so is against the Terms of Use of the console and is possibly illegal.

source: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/01/17/why-you-shouldnt-install-custom-firmware-on-your-ps3/

"this is why random consoles are killing themselves. lesson = let the guinea pigs go first."

Lols, I didn't quite graps what the hell was going on, but this article finally explained it to me, too frigging early for me haha.

I don't condone piracy personally but boy did some people get owned.

Karma? this has not anything to do with karma, modding a console is a risk that lies in you and only you, everybody knows that...

I've been doing it since the 90s and i never had a problem with one system (well, except my Nokia 5800 but it was a minor issue that i repaired quickly), because when i do it, i know what to do and the risks involved, and when i leech on some work made by others, i follow their steps and do my research... I'm never the guinea pig, and those that bricked their PS3 are most precisely that: The Guinea Pigs... 

But i agree with you, i'm also glad that they're bricked, most of the guinea pigs are looking for piracy and/or cheating online, most homebrewers, devs, hackers, etc. are more cautious...

Firmware that bricks consoles? Are we sure Sony didn't release this custom firmware?

http://www.ps3vault.com/firmware-201-may-brick-the-ps3-2448

http://www.destructoid.com/man-sues-sony-after-firmware-bricked-his-ps3-151084.phtml

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/07/03/2-40-ps3-update-withdrawn-may-brick-ps3s/1

Custom or not. There is a history of firmware bricking consoles. Maybe hardware is to blame?

They should sue Sony!!!