Notorious iPhone Hacker Posts PS3 Master Key Online

[Jaime_Wolf]

You know what would be even better than breaking security and then offering to help make things more secure? Working on open platforms that resist piracy itself rather than resisting all unsigned code.

A huge number of people just want to run homebrew. If the consoles were open platforms, there would be tremendously little need for people to try to break any remaining security that prevented piracy. The worry that people will start distributing games without paying licensing fees is pointless if they just open the platform with a restriction on selling unlicensed products (so free homebrew is good, but paid software still needs to be licensed).

I think this "us against them" mentality going on with securing and rooting devices is extremely unhealthy for the industry and consumers.

Edit: (Add in all the usual stuff about pirated software not being equivalent to lost sales here.)

 

[TheRealGoochman]

it sort of boggles my mind on why he would do something like this in the first place........personally I sort of see him as an idiot

 

[Olrod]

I would have had more sympathy for Sony if they hadn't deliberately broken the PS3 so they couldn't play PS2 games any more.

If I'd known at the time, that the PS3 I was about to purchase could no longer play PS2 games, I'd have not bothered buying a new one and looked for a second-hand one that could play PS2 games, instead.

Then Sony can whine about how buying second-hand products means they don't get any money from the sale, and I can tell them "PS2 compatibly or STFU/GTFO".

 

[voidspawn]

If the effort of copying games gets easier than walking to store, finding the game in the shelves and draw my visa in the machine, then i might just consider it..

But until then, im gonna do what i have always done, pay up fair and square.
And as long as it is easier and faster to do it the legal way, most people will do it that way im guessing.

If the effort is easier? Is there really any effort involved in inserting a disc into disc drive and pressing "burn" ?? Hmmm