Wow this isn't cool. The Internet is a unregulated land. As I should be.

Fuck. Are we part of a generation of cowboys and pirates in the glory days of the wild webs?!?!

@PappaDukes: Ummmm, R4?

@ sqlrob R4 is dead. Long live about 10 other flashcarts!

Well I hate to see anyone go down for something like this, but can't say I blame Sony for trying.

@DrAlexander:

My POINT is that it was dead. Nintendo did the same damn thing.

If it slows down the rise of cheaters in online games on psn, I am all for this. That is what this will lead to eventually. Piracy sucks too.

I guess its easy to see who the pirates are whenever a topic like this comes up.

How dare Sony protect their interests!! I should be able to steal games as much as I want just like I do on the PC, 360, and the Wii! If they keep trying to stop me from stealing, Ill just try harder to steal from them!

@pappadukes.
you tell him man, just cus he didnt understand the joke, doesnt mean the rest didnt

What troubles me the most is the use, not the existence. It wouldn't be bad if they used the PS3 as a computer (with new Other OS), or mod it to personalize the looks. THEY PIRATE GAMES. "We bought the console, we can do whatever we want!". YEAH, PROBLEM IS THAT THEY DIDN'T BUY THE GAMES. Cheating is also bad, since it goes against the policy of the company. Really, I hate jailbreakers, but I hate even more jailbreakers that justify their acts by saying that they bought the console so "it's up to them to use it".

installing backup manager is not illegal, nor is the hardware and software. you have to have the original disc i order to copy the game, you can't just download a 4+gig game file from the internet and it'll work, you have to have the disc! and thats not illegal or all those companies that released a no-cd patch to play a pc game are illegal in giving us that option.

and as long as the devs patch this software, it betters the console and sony can't do a legal thing about it as long as they do that. that is the law or every 3rd party app you downloaded to your pc is illegal.

sony is a fascist company and we're seeing how fuct up they can be. i payed over $600 for my launch ps3, no man let alone some jap company will tell me what i can or can't do with what i paid for, and if i don't own it then sony can come break into my house and steal it from me.

sony has no case against the end user, they took other os away from us, and now we are working hard on getting it back. i still have yellow dog on my unformatted hdd and aim to be able to get back into it soon. its great for learning code.

They're just bluffing, Apple's attempt to foil jailbreakers through the legal system resulted in jailbreaking being declared legal in the courts.

One could use a jailbroken iDevice to download cracked games for free, but there are also many practical uses that are completely legit.

Sony should just embrace it at this point, a vibrant hacking community could be seen as vital part of a devices community.

Wheres all the sony fanbois? Shouldnt they be telling us about how great and beneficient sony is? Shouldnt they be telling us how it is Sony's will and thou shalt do thine bidding....losers

Does every destructoid journalist believe kinect is bullshit? dont let us in the dark!

Thank you for your on topic comment, Sir playedallot.

But Kinnect is bullshit. I may buy one and use the casing as a case for my PSGroove USB stick.

@Gaidenrider

Once you factor in R&D cost, legal cost for patents and/or licensing, production and sales, this is a far cheaper and practical route. Personally, I enjoy jailbroken/modded hardware to tweak settings, adjust performance and just personalize my systems, but pirates and cheaters have really taken over the scene and given it a bad image.

I'm glad to see sony taking action, all the bitchass thieves supporting this need to get jobs and pay for their shit.

nice, i dont want to see the ps3 full of illegaal shit as the psp does.

@Hasney

music downloads? what the fuck that have to do with this shit ? lol

and i mean, sony needs to keep trying man, not because a lot of people supports jailbrake, it means its right. if you dont like the terms of use of the ps3 console/device you are using, sell it.

its good to see sony keep trying, not like nintendo did,they dont try too hard. or they dont care.

anyway, i dont want to see piracy taking over the ps3.

Just out of curiousity, hasn't Qraze been called out time and time again as a mass pirate? Shouldn't his opinion on the matter be accurately represented as be "I paid $600 for a launch unit so that I'm entitled to $4000 in free software?"

It sucks that jailbreaking enables piracy, but the openness is important. If I buy a toy I want to play with it how I want (eg. homebrew). No matter what the toy I can't use it to commit crimes(piracy), but I should be able to use it however I want. That's why I was happy that sony had the other OS. It would give geeks a chance to play with a cell processor on the cheap, maybe get some XBMC going, and would keep the incredibly smart people from helping pirates, since they wouldn't have to jailbreak the thing in the first place.

@Nzdjh

oh yeah sony isnt trying to stop piracy, sony is trying to take over the internet!! dont be stupid.

you think that the hackers that did it, didnt wanted all this whole "piracy shit" to happen, maybe they didnt want to. but if they didnt want to, why the fuck they did it? by making a jailbrake they opened a whole lot of windows for other hackers to use their "good jailbrake" and make iso loaders and all that shit,because dont tell me they didnt knew that would happen.

this shows that the hackers behind all this dont care for what other people may do with their tools.and you saying that even if sony tries to stop this, they cant win, they dont have a chance? you retarded. what kind of mentality you have? you think jailbrake and piracy is for freedom!!

you think that the hackers behind the jailbrake did it for love? fuck off.

@Skribble

what the fuck clit??? so because i dont want piracy on the ps3, im an ignorant douchebag??

car accidents arent the same as the ps3 piracy problems im talking about. im going to explain you why they are not the same, because your stupid....actually im not going to.

PIRACY is bad.

i hope sony win. dont wanna cheater or hacker fags in the network.

Huh. Was this rabid legal team asleep when Pandora's Battery became available for sale?

i have been called out as a pirate time and time again and you know what? i fucking am. except i don't pirate console games, and i don't play pc games. i pirate movies i don't know if i'll like, so yeah, i'm a pirate in that area. and i'm guilty of pirating photoshop which i've used once.

i support the industry by buying new games with my money, pirating games for me destroys the satisfaction i aim for and lessens/cheapens my total experience.

i have some standards. lol.

movies are only 2-3 hours of my time and i delete them after watching, but if i like the movie i'll buy it for all the extra scenes and commentary and such.

i'm against console piracy but whatever you do in your own home is your business, not sonys, not governments and certainly not mine.


the number one feature i want back is other os, because i actually used it weekly. second is a task manager i can see how much cpu/processing power i'm using while playing a psn game or listening to music. and maybe that saturn emulator so i can play panzer dragoon saga again, because you will never fucking find that game for less then $200 and i have the original discs and my saturn died over 12 years ago.

but also, gran turismo5 is worth updating.