Recent content by Modus Operandi

This is misleading and is not news. These exploits always work for a time when a new update comes out, and then get closed off again. People used it to try to keep their Linux, people used it to go online with 3.41 when 3.42 was already out, and every time after a while they got cut off. When...

It's been said before, and bears repeating again. The copyright & intellectual property laws are a bureaucratic mess, and, as usual, it's the end users that suffer when content providers get stuck trying to untangle it. Once the original author/owner (or the last of a group) is dead, the work...

All big companies have lawyers on-staff, who get paid every month anyway, so this suit costs them nothing but court fees. Which, I'll venture a guess, is less than peanuts for a giant like Sony. And it's a reasonable first assumption that they wouldn't do it without a good chance of success...

Yeah... if only there had been some way for homebrew developers to install their own software on the PS3, something like a separate partition on the HDD for Linux or some other OS... Oh, wait. :P While there is no justification for piracy (like the PS3break dogles), fail0verflow only became...

The case only looks solid if you don't look too closely. Neither fail0verflow nor GeoHot have ever asked or accepted any kind of money for their work, not even donations. A lot (most?) of the hackers don't live in the USA, and despite what the PSN Terms of Service state, I doubt anyone can be...

What exactly do you mean by "can be controlled"? Mercedes has no power over other companies making tires for their cars. Any chop shop can install any cheap Chinese knock-off tires, radios, speakers, windshields or what have you, and nobody can do anything because there's nothing wrong or...

If the creator of a product is given absolute control over how the product is used, and circumventing that control is made illegal, then the next thing you know putting tires made by, say, a Toyota daughter company on a Mercedes or replacing your car's speakers with different ones will land you...

Probably for the first time in my life, I'll have to disagree with Shamus more or less completely. All of the arguments presented in the article are Now arguments, which don't really come across as very "future-proof": 1. There will always be collectors. But how many? Most people will always go...

So... basically what WB are saying is that this seeing the first half hour will be enough to keep people away from the theaters? Somehow I doubt it's THAT horrible.

What baffles me is why the response comes so late. By now it's useless, the event has gone down in gaming history (in most gamers' minds) as Activision being dicks to a developer. Where was Kotick (or anyone else from Activision) explaining their side when it actually mattered? I also agree...

First of all, nobody said anything about a "collapse". But it could definitely change and not in favour of high production value M-titles. I personally don't even really care that much, since the big companies haven't put out a single genuinely scary or interesting mature game since Silent Hill...

Yes, but the UK isn't almost the entire western videogame market, now is it? That's the whole point of the OP -- if the law passes, the retailers will have to adapt. If they adapt by reducing or completely eliminating M-rated game shelves, it will affect everyone in the industry, because USA is...

BTW, the device is general purpose jailbreak, not piracy-only. They only advertise it like that and bundle with the backup manager for wider appeal (everyone knows what "backing up a game to a hard drive" means, but a lot of people are very unclear on what "homebrew" is). The PS3 homebrew scene...

So every action that isn't stealing is legal? WTF? But, ironically, in some respects, it is. Nobody can sue you for downloading an MP3 off a warez site. You could paint a poster saying you did it, and go out into the street, waving your USB thumbdrive containing the MP3 and no authority could...

I think it's worth re-iterating a few basic facts. 1) Sharing and stealing are antonyms. Regardless of their moral aspects, the two actions are fundamentally opposite. It's like calling chastity belts "rape". 2) Personal profit and widespread development in any creative field are also...