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was this not posted a few days ago???plus them hackers are crap one of them already been busted in russia great hackers plus why help a like geo that takes others stuff that they work really hard on and releases it as his own he broke the law he should pay simple as.
Its all well and good to be hatin on Sony, but its misplaced. Mac is right, if the precedence is set about acquiring personal traceable info, its like giving big companies a legal loop-hole to get your personal private information WHEN YOU ARE NOT THE SUSPECT! In the US, the law makes it clear that an individuals privacy is to be maintained unless enough suspicion has been built to WARRANT break that individuals privacy. If this precedent is set, it means your 'virtual privacy' will be violated simply because you read an article on a web-page somewhere, that Sony could have the right to gain access not only to your IP transactions, but maybe even financial transactions as well (did you ever buy one of those Jailbreak clones?). As far as your 'right' to the hardware you purchased:You purchased a box that plays games. It has some added features. But the main core promise of the parent company was to provide you a game console to play legally purchased games. Even the crap about 'backups' is total *****. If you wearout a game, buy another. Its like saying you only ever have to buy one golf ball for your entire life. You paid $XXX for a box to insert your game disc into. Sony provided that. If you want to change your theme, go right ahead. Sony only bans you from PSN, and they have the right to do so. Once you have altered the hardware, they have the right to make sure your custom box does not screw-up thier network, nor are they responsible for the condition of your box since you altered it. But you also realize that 99% of the hackers only do it so that piracy can be had. Its the reason 99.99% of people alter thier box to begin with. Stop lying about any f******* story otherwise. There have been how many people who even knew about OtherOS? Compare that to how many jailbreaks have been sold in one year. Its in the millions. Its damn near close to how many PS3 have been manufactured. Sony created the playstation as a competitive game console. They have done thier due diligence to provide a quality product. All businesses follow the same practice. They provide a product or service wanted by the customer. In those terms, they have done an excellent job. They have the right to protect themselves from thieves. Any business would. Considering the broad effect of piracy, it is no wonder they are suing the crap out of the self-proclaimed hackers who opened up the copy-protection they have. It will end up being a deterent in the longrun. As for your customizations that do not have anything to do with priacy, where is the petition to Sony asking for them to provide it? Why does eveyone think it can only be had by breaking the integrity of the original hardare instead of asking the vendor to provide it? And before anyone hops onto 'Sony deserves to get squashed', think about how fun it would be if your/your families/your friends emplyers all went out of business because some crap company in another country forced them out of business with outright illegal methods. Sony has only done what was asked of them in the first place: Make a PS3 to play games, games provided by other companies that need Sony to provide protection against piracy.
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Hazer by your standards farmers should be held accountable for multiple attacks on the world trade center because they are the reason the explosives that were used are well known. Your thinking does not add up.
wow... i see that you are quite passionate about this, but i am having a hard time coming up with a reason why homebrew should be sacrificed so that game costs will come down and sony profits will go up. it is completely illogical and unfortanately like Xsavior says it doesnt add up. In 1995 I paid $60 for a copy of street fighter 2 on the SNES, which was outrageous at the time, however are u going to sit there and tell me the same amount of work went into SSF2 as did black ops? the price was the same, so where is this inflation from piracy? The truth is what we get for $60 is a fricken deal compared to what $60 got you 10-20 years ago... which does not account for piracy or the hundreds of additional programmers that helped make it. game prices are based on market capacity, not piracy. you will never see game prices drop as long as the market supports $60 games, has nothing to do with piracy... NOTHING.Sony is not going out of business because of piracy,,, does a movie theatre go out of business because they have a full crowd and only got paid for %80 of the seats? no they go out of business because they dont fill the seats. Sony is filling the out of the seats currently. Hazer by your logic, we should outlaw guns to prevent crimes and murders... take away the right provided for you by the constituiton of the United states of America. Sounds easy enough right? Wrong what comes with unarmed population? more crime for one, and probably much worse is that the government will not fear its people, the power will not exist for a potential uprising or a massacre at capital hill. Can you imagine congress if they had no fear of reprocussions from working americans? Taxes go up, policing goes up, next thing you know we live in an even more :censored:ed up society the we have now.... the rich pay even less taxes and the poor pay even more. Make unlocking your hardware illegal and watch all the law abiding citizens stop doing homebrew and alll the pirates not stop pirating... what the do you think is going to happen the pirates are going to stop and the prices are going down? comeonNow VGs and guns are not a direct analogy, however pay attention to the parrallels that do exist.... you want to pay less for your games... fat chance that will ever happen, if anything piracy keeps them honest, because truth of the matter is that 99% of homebrew enabled machines play piracy, but I would put money on the fact that less then 10% of all machines are jailbroken to allow homebrew or piracy... Just because some tard bought all the stock of a microcontroller does not mean that 3 million devices have been sold to unlock hardware, just means 3 million devices were made. You know what keeps prices down... the fear that if they raise prices, that 10% of hacked hardware would grow exponentially into a number that actually would threaten the viability of the software in the market.I feel like technologially savvy members who understand how to break a device see how easy it is and assume the whole world is doing it. Unfortanately my time as with the vast majority of others, is worth much more then figuring out how to steal a $60 product, I would rather buy the game and focus my efforts elsewhere as i do along with %99 of the people I know who game. However I like the idea, much like I like my 9mm on my hip, that i do have the power to stick it to whoever wants to push me or test my resolve, because i will be damned if someone treads on me, espeacially a corporation whos ponzi type of business wants to blame my peers for why they are not able to meet "projected growth." Just like with social security, the system will eventually cave in because there is no new growth, and sony is seeing that along with many corporations being run by supposedly intelligent people.Piracy is bad, but so are guns, and get rid of either and you will see a much worse outcome then you are capable of envisioning.I am sorry but as a programmer the responsiblity to make a product that wont be hacked is on me, unfortanately being reality based i know that if i coded it, then someone else could to, and could reverse that code. Soo why is it that Sony and M$ cant code a device that wont be broken? Because they are Lazy and would rather dump resources into commercials on saturday morning then protecting their product. (conspiracy? could be) This gen devices learned from the dreamcasts failures however instead of innovating they recycled PC tech that is understood and hacked even more then on consoles.Piracy is bad, I for one would prefer a world where it didnt exist, however taking someones rights away to protects the rights of others is much worse, and can be detrimental to all aspects of consumerism in ways that are unconcievable to us now but will be very clear in the future. Lastly, since when should a corporation like Sony be able to use the courts as a way fix their own shortcomings, they had the ability to develop a system that was secure, however when they didnt make it good enough, they think the courts should fix it, and that is not going to work, people are going to do as they wish as been shown over and over again throughout the history of the world regardless of what is law or not. thats a fact jack!
oh dear... here we go again... again...