Wow, I feel like burning my PSP

Starting from now until the day I die I am NEVER buying another Sony product again.
First their unacceptable actions at geohot, whose hack by the way, you still can't (and probably will never be able to) pirate with.

Then banning jailbroken PSN users for using geohot's hack, which you can't pirate with, and now this ****.

Fuсk you, Sony. Fuсk you.

 

Oh no, Sony is taking measures to fix problems for their company. How rude of them.

 

Yes, suing a 20 year old kid who did nothing other than allow people to get the most out of their property will fix everything.

 

Lol at twenty years old being a kid. Sony is doing things for their benefit. Like all companies would. Shut up and give them your money.

 

Twenty years old is a kid. I don't care how independent you think you are, that's young. Suing geohot gives them no benefit whatsoever. His hack has already been released, there is absolutely nothing they can do about it, and it does not allow for piracy. Sony is suing because they are elitist pricks and they want to scare people into thinking that getting the most out of your property can make you go to jail. If they actually win I will lose faith in the American justice system.

 

Eh, it's the ******s own damn fault, I stand by Sony 100% for bricking those Ps3s. And it's even better that they're suing the man, lol.

 

People like you are the problem. A corporation infringes people's rights, and you support it.

 

How is it our rights to hack into our consoles and alter them to make them free to play?

Besides, I'm not gonna give up on the best games on the market just because other people are being dumb.

 

If you're gonna buy a PS3, then buy it to play the games the way Sony wanted you to.

Personally, I think that Sony has every right to do what they're doing.

 

^This

^And this.

Though the card details is a worry. o:

 

First of all, if you pay 300-600 dollars for something, you should be able to do WHATEVER you want with it. Second, geohot's hack is impossible to pirate with, the efforts to make it possible have failed, and even if it did happen, it would not be geohot's fault. His hack has absolutely nothing to do with piracy

 

Great logic there, by that definition you if you buy a car (which is much more expensive) you should be allowed to drive on the left side of the road. Or alter it in any way you want to. That's not how the real world works, kid. If it has nothing to do with piracy then what does it do? Why would you want it? Why would people download it?

It's deserved.

 

See that, is a load of bullshit. History has proven time and time again that the only way to get the best out of a console is to hack it. My iPhone and my Wii, and my PSP for that matter, would have been terrible buys to me if I didn't hack them. That has nothing to do with getting free games either. Sony has even outright said that there's more features behind the PS3 that they're sitting on.

 

But he didn't have to release the code. He's just opened the way for pirate games, hacks and such.

 

You should be allowed to alter it any way you want to. Driving it on the left side of the road is now a completely different thing because you're causing harm to people. (I just realized I sound like Thomas Hobbes).

The hack allows for homebrew. All Geohot did was release a number- that wasn't copyrighted, by the way- that Sony uses to sign the PSN apps that has to go through them. Trying to sign an unsigned pirated game will fail because Geohot did not release the keys for that. The hack is only for homebrew. Sadly the only homebrew we've seen is a snes emulator, the homebrew scene stopped out of fear when this whole thing happened.

So what? He doesn't have anything to do with it. If I let you borrow my baseball bat, and you murder someone with it, am I responsible?

 

He has everything to do with it. He provided the information knowing fine well what it would lead to. He could've hacked it, showed that he had been successful and left it at that. He was irresponsible and now PS3 owners have to put up with hackers in games.

 

Hacking it and leaving it at that would have been stupid because then there's no chance for a good homebrew scene to develop (And the PS3 is capable of some awesome homebrew). I agree with Sony's decision to ban people who are cheating in games. But bricking EVERYONE who decided hack their console WHICH THEY OWN is some Nazi bullshit.

 

If you gave it out fully aware that he would kill someone with it, then yes.

 

Then by this logic, Geohot is completely innocent.

Allow me to cite the DMCA ruling jailbreaking 100% legal. They allowed it because jailbreaking is first and foremost intended for people to get the most out of their phone by making the kinds of apps that Apple doesn't allow, like iStrings or MakeItMine. It allows pirating apps by extension but that has nothing to do with the nature of the hack.

THIS IS THE EXACT SAME THING, except it's actually impossible to pirate games at all

 

It's only a matter of time till they start making pirate games. People used to say the Ps3 was impossible to hack but look at it now.

Sony are wasting time and money trying to secure the thing when they could be improve features. Nothing positive has come from this hack.