well, my reasoning is that many consoles in the past have had to deal with piracy, but didnt turn out the way the psp has. i dont think the ps2 is a failure, but piracy on it is as simple as installing a modchip and burning a dvd that costs cents. games are still being released for it. i guess thats why i assume the ps3 will do just fine.
My take:
My reply to a geohot hater.
that was my understanding aswell, but geohot made it sound otherwise.In my understanding of things we are faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from a CFW.
should be pretty reassuring for those worried it will lead to piracy, although i think everyone knows that, one way or another, cfw WILL lead to piracy. looks like pandoras box has been opened!(what a line!)Two things, some people seem to think CFW will enable some sort of piracy. It won't. It'll just be a custom version of 3.21 that doesn't lose OtherOS support. Hacking isn't about getting what you didn't pay for, it's about making sure you do get what you did.
And this is about more than this feature right now. It's about whether these companies have the right to take away advertised features from a product you purchased. Imagine if an exploit were found in Safari on the iPhone, but instead of fixing it, Apple decides to pull web browsing altogether. Legally, they may be within their right to do so, but we have to show them it's the wrong move for the future of the product and the company.
I think CFW != CFW.
What he seems to understand under the term "custom firmware" seems to be something else than PSP used folks are.
Sounds like he's "only" planning on slamming up a patched 3.21 that does NOT disable OtherOS - good enough for me
3. The hack is not widely available. For the first part, this hack will ONLY work on the Phat systems, not the slims. This means that people who do own a PHAT console (that arent many compared to the SLIM model owners) are the liable group for this exploit.
well, my reasoning is that many consoles in the past have had to deal with piracy, but didnt turn out the way the psp has. i dont think the ps2 is a failure, but piracy on it is as simple as installing a modchip and burning a dvd that costs cents. games are still being released for it. i guess thats why i assume the ps3 will do just fine.
While I agree with Hellcat, the term 'Read it before you buy it' applies. Even though it sucks and I'd be pissed had I had a PS3, they still are in their full right to do it. For all we know it's an april fools.
The PSP is by far the easiest, that's why it's the worst.
That's true, I actually hadn't thought of it that way. but it still remains to be seen if/when geohot or anyone else releases a cfw, if it could be applied as easily as cfw on the psp. the ps3 is still considered to be the most secure console available, and the hack in its current state requires a fair amount of soldering. we'll have to wait and see if it will remain that way or if another exploit will be found not requiring the user to open the ps3(not that i have a problem opening the ps3 and soldering). im skeptical though.
I'm giving a reason as to why Sony wouldn't want this to happen, not how bad I think it would be.
He's an idiot. Especially via his justification for it. It's obvious that he's the cause of this as there's no point in removing an already existing feature via a software update.
He certainly thinks highly of himself.