Post by M.S.See... Having the ability to use homebrew applications and games which
aren't licensed by SCE might be a good thing, indeed, but CFWs and
modchips also allows you to use illegal copies of games what is not good
in my eyes.
And misuse is the hackers' fault? That's like throwing the guy who made
the kitchen knife into prison for murder and not the murderer.
As he didn't suggest tossing the people who hacked the PS3 in jail, it
would be at best like criticizing the person who made the kitchen
knife.
Beyond that, the parallel doesn't stand because the kitchen knife
would be used for very practical uses. While someone who hacks the PS3
might not intend for their hack to be used to play illegal copies of
games, nobody can reasonably assume that any significant number of the
user base would use it for any other purpose.
I think there would be good reason to vilify the inventor of the
kitchen knife if, before they invented the knife, they knew that only
about 2% of all people would use it to cook and everyone else who used
it would use it to murder people - even if all they wanted to do was
chop up carrots and slice chicken, the knowledge that the overwhelming
majority of people who used it would use it for nefarious purposes
should be enough to make them think twice about making it easy for
people to do that.
Post by M.S.Neither for Sony nor 3rd-parties nor for the players which will get
nothing but unfinished products or complete bullcrap after the console
first got totally hacked by guys like Dark-Alex who released tons of PSP
CFWs afaik.
Um. How exactly did these hacks or CFWs affect folks who didn't download
them? And how does the existence of CFW resultin unfinished products from
Sony? Are you sure you're not confusing CFW with a virus or something?
You're not making any sense here.
Using a hack or installing a CFW is something the user has to do himself.
It does not happen automatically. It is not for the techno-phobic or
ignorant. Hacking your hardware always carries the risk of damaging the
hardware beyond repair, and even the attempt itself will require you to
void all warranties on the hardware.
Actually, a lot of people attribute the poor sales of PSP software to
the existence of the custom firmware. The PSP already wasn't going to
be a blockbuster hit in competition with the DS powerhouse and because
of the rather misguided nature of the product, but the existence of
the firmware pretty much sealed the system's fate. The device itself
sells decently... it's just the games that don't sell too well since a
very significant portion of the user base just downloads the CSOs and
ISOs.
There have been developers who gave up on projects because of the poor
sales due to rampant piracy on the system. It's about as bad as piracy
for the PC was.
Post by M.S.If you like to use fanmade apps and games, fine, but that's what the PC
is for.
You don't get it.
Post by M.S.Of course you're allowed to do whatever you like with stuff you buy, but
sadly these hacks, no matter how interesting they might be, didn't just
get used by people who like to run their own applications on consoles.
Lots of CFW/modchip users mainly use these things so they don't need to
pay the software.
That's what pisses me off.
It pisses me off too, but what can you do?
Look, everything gets misused. Should we destroy the internet because
it's used for piracy?
No, because it has many more uses *and* the majority of people don't
use it to pirate.
Should we destroy all kitchen cutlery because it
can be used to stab people?
No, for the same reason.
How about banning rope, because you could
strangle someone?
Ditto.
Shall we burn books because they can teach people how
to build bombs, or commit murder.
Ditto again.
In each example you gave, a tiny minority of users use it for the
purposes you describe. There's no arguing that the majority of video
game system firmware users use that firmware to pirate games.
To be clear, I agree with you that ultimately you can't kill firmware
and hacks just because they're used for unscrupulous purposes. It's
just that the whole "it's like a knife or a rope used for murder"
correlation doesn't really work.
This move of Sony's doesn't really surprise me. Sony has always been VERY
unfriendly as far as the hacker community is concerned.
Well, what reason should Sony have to be friendly to the people who
make it possible for the less scrupulous to cheat them out of revenue?
There isn't much of an upside for Sony there - the ability to run
homebrew applications or games doesn't benefit Sony in the least. If
we lived in a world of super nerds, maybe, but only a tiny sliver of
PS3 owners ever installed Linux on their machines which tells you how
many are interested in using the PS3 for anything other than its
intended purpose.
Which is a real
pity, especially after all the hoopla Sony's made about how the PS3 is "so
much more" than just a game console. Well, I guess now it's "more than a
game console"...with a lobotomy."
Post by M.S.If you're just here to troll around and insult users, GTFO!
Pot, meet Kettle...