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Who will eventually win in the end? Sony or hackers?

Sony 81 34.62%
 
Hackers 76 32.48%
 
Nintendo and Microsoft 18 7.69%
 
The US Government 10 4.27%
 
I just wanna see the results 48 20.51%
 
Total:233
Grimes on 06 April 2011

The lawyers.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

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Onyxmeth on 06 April 2011

Sony will win. They're higher up on the food chain. No matter what happens in regards to this, the Sony executives leave at 6PM and go home to their 6 bedroom houses, with their 2.5 kids, their 65 inch televisions, their trophy wives and text messages waiting for them from their mistresses. The hacker has to do this as their hobby in their apartments they share with roommates when they get off their 9 hour shifts as Geek Squad counter people, and they still need to fill the loneliness with intermittent porn sessions. There's really no comparison here. 



Tag: Became a freaking mod and a complete douche, coincidentally, at the same time.



Mr Khan on 06 April 2011

The hackers. Sony's been barking up the wrong tree legally, and so long as Hotz' lawyers know what they're doing, Sony will get their asses handed to them



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

goforgold on 06 April 2011
RolStoppable said:
BMaker11 said:
RolStoppable said:

The more you fight piracy, the more resistance there will be. And having a system that is supposedly unhackable will only encourage hackers more.

The battle against piracy usually leads to honest customers suffering, like all that DRM stuff on the PC. People who actually buy the game have to deal with crap while the pirates enjoy superior versions of the same game.

Now the thing with Geohot hacking the PS3 and Sony taking him to court is something that I honestly don't quite understand. What is the big deal? A console open to piracy sees an increase in hardware sales. There will always be people who don't buy any games, but if the hardware is sold at a profit, it ultimately doesn't hurt the company much. It's not like every pirated copy translates to a lost sale.

Sony should have just accepted that their console was finally open to piracy and enjoyed how easy the PS3 would overtake the 360 in lifetime sales. Also, I am pretty sure they have the necessary tools to identify people who cheat on PSN and the like and kick them from their servers.

Not so fast there. PSP, anyone? Not to mention a decrease in software sales because people won't find the need to buy games anymore. And guess who makes games? Sony, right? So that does affect them.

Not to mention 3rd parties, as well

Pretty much every video game system in existence is open to piracy and it didn't really hurt them all that much. Why is the PSP an isolated case? Because the people who actually do buy their games don't see the PSP as a worthwile system, that's why software sales are abysmal in the West. The PSP's problem is not so much piracy as it is the games themselves. Software sales suck, because the games are perceived to suck.

Would piracy really hurt the PS3? The 360 has a lot of the same games, so it's safe to say no.

such a Rol thing to say