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DAX said no more CFW's in interview?

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I've read some posts that Dark Alex (DAX) has said in a television interview that he is against piracy.

So no hopes of iso loader ever on PSP?
 
transcend3nt said:
I've read some posts that Dark Alex (DAX) has said in a television interview that he is against piracy.

So no hopes of iso loader ever on PSP?
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Wait what? Your thread title says no more custom firmware, and your thread says he is against piracy.

I am not sure what you want.

1: He will most likely continue for some time being...
2: He is against piracy, but I am sure someone would create a loader if he didn't included the option any more.
 
Just because he states there won't be a release for 5.50 CFW, doesn't mean he won't continue with another firmware later on.

I haven't been in the PSP community lately, but you can't run ISOs anymore?
 
Okay, a few things.

1. As Sullivan pointed out, your thread title and first post don't really match up...
2. Television interview? Lol, what? Believe me, Dark_Alex doesn't get TV time.
3. Dark_Alex isn't really against piracy. His first homebrew for the PSP was an ISO loader. He has also included an ISO loader and developed a PSX loader for use in his custom firmwares. He's against piracy? I don't think so.


Now, to clear up the confusion that you are evidently experiencing.
- Dark_Alex has only said that he has no plans for making a 5.50 M33 custom firmware. Nowhere has he said that he is discontinuing his cfw's altogether. He WILL be updating his custom firmware - just not with 5.50. Read our article on this here.
- The quote from Alek's blog that you mentioned was referring to the recently released ChickHEN. There is no plans for him to make an ISO loader to work with HEN. End of story. Custom firmware wasn't even mentioned in that context so I don't understand how you could have possibly made the connection.

Capiche?
 
Dark Alex was on TV ONCE before. Who cares if the shit isn't going to be ISO capable - the PSP has no games worthy of being played anyways.
 
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Dark Alex was on TV ONCE before. Who cares if the shit isn't going to be ISO capable - the PSP has no games worthy of being played anyways.
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I think he was just mentioned on TV once. He hasn't conducted any fullout rl interviews.
 
Dark_AleX did an interview with the BBC awhile back, it was not televised though. I don't believe he has done a TV interview but I will ask. Also he does not support piracy, there are legitimate reasons as to why M33 has ISO support, specifically for faster loading times and less of a burden on battery life. Do I think these advantages outweigh the increased piracy it brings to PSP? No. But Alex feels the choice should be up to users and he does not want to limit them.

Making an ISO loader for HEN is somewhat of a waste of time. When Sony releases games that depend on newer libraries from a more recent firmware, they will fail to load on 5.03.
 
Well the interview that BBC did with DA wasn't a video interview but just a normal one..there was however another interview that TechnoTV did with Alek (webmaster of Dark-Alex.org), here is first part..its in Spanish btw..

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKRRIe4nFTo[/YT]

@ Slasher With all due respect, from Sony's POV all attempts to circumvent the protection against running unsigned codes on the PSP (including Davee's HEN) are as illegal as piracy. Its pointless accusing one dev of piracy when others have done more or less the same thing. Maybe DA just went one step further but I'm sure they had their reasons (team M33). I've been around DA's website for more than a year now and joined his forum like 5 months back and since then I've witnesses Dark_AleX, Alek and moderators warn/remind posters every now and then that it was a devsite and they do not condone piracy..definitely not the attitude of someone who is not against piracy.:)
 
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@ Slasher With all due respect, from Sony's POV all attempts to circumvent the protection against running unsigned codes on the PSP (including Davee's HEN) are as illegal as piracy. Its pointless accusing one dev of piracy when others have done more or less the same thing. Maybe DA just went one step further but I'm sure they had their reasons (team M33). I've been around DA's website for more than a year now and joined his forum like 5 months back and since then I've witnesses Dark_AleX, Alek and moderators warn/remind posters every now and then that it was a devsite and they do not condone piracy..definitely not the attitude of someone who is not against piracy.:)
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Triklops, with all due respect -

The people previous to my post were saying Dark_Alex was strictly *against* piracy all of a sudden. I kindly told them that no, he isn't necessarily *against* piracy. If he truly was against piracy, then he would avoid including ISO loaders and POPS loaders in his cfw. And that's really all there is to it. If you believe anything otherwise, then you're kidding yourself. DAX can hide behind the mask saying that he only enables ISO's for backups to be ran, but let's be honest here... he enables hundreds of thousands of people to pirate any PSP and/or PSX game they wish. Just because he doesn't want people discussing it on his site doesn't mean he's against it.

I suppose Dark_Alex can have his reasons for including one, but I agree with x3sphere on this one though - the advantages of having an ISO loader, etc, really don't outweigh the piracy aspect of it all. I just think that if he was truly against piracy, he wouldn't include the loaders in his custom firmware.

If you want to continue this leading-nowhere-discussion, then feel free to PM me.
 
Well first of all it is a wise move for any homebew developer to say during an interview that they are against piracy.If Sony ever decides to come back and charge Dark Alex or Fine him for something he has some sort of proof that he does not support piracy.

(Sad thing is that Dark Alex first projects were for ISO Loaders)

Im kind of sceptical though.ISO loaders were the best thing that could happen to the psp 1000-2000s, now all of a sudden its the worst thing thing that could have ever occured.

People with the older models who probably still pirate are now even against piracy on the new 3k models which is kind of hypocritical.
 
DAX can hide behind the mask saying that he only enables ISO's for backups to be ran, but let's be honest here... he enables hundreds of thousands of people to pirate any PSP and/or PSX game they wish.
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And isn't enabling emulators just allowing (in a manner of speaking) ROM loaders? The use of ROM's is just as illegal as PSP/PSX ISO's so it's just semantics about not developing an ISO Loader to prevent piracy.
 
Actually no, it's a completely different legal sphere.

ISO's are flat out illegal.

ROMS on the otherhand are legal under the condition that you own the original game (this is a legal clause found in any of the EULAs associated with these old SNES, etc. games).

If we want to discuss piracy any further, take it to the piracy thread please.
 
Creating an ISO loader does not indicate that anyone thinks piracy is ok, it is a tool.

My car can go 160Mph, does that mean the car manufacturer supports speeding?

Owning the original, you are allowed to back up your files to whatever format you choose. My understanding is that Many ROM's still hold copyright, many do not though. In fact getting a back up of a ROM is not that easy.

There is a distinct difference - those that d/l should be shot. My post has gone horribly off topic.

If Dark_alex does stop CFW dev then that's his choice and i thank him for all he has done.
 
The thing is that ROMS are legal but any form of ISO is strictly illegal. Ut also depends on your country

But in my eyes, yes i agree with you that you should be alloed to backup your own games
 
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