tkioz said:
Ahh the corporate shill, trusting the government and our big company overmasters to decide we "need" to know, what we're allowed to know.
I don't think I ever said that, nor even mentioned a government, but hey nice job on making yourself appear pretentious at best, and a lunatic conspiracy theorist at worse...Consideration we're talking about private companies here your comments just seem out of place, and I repeat, moronic.
If I wanted to learn how to make an atomic bomb I can go to university and study it, the information is there; If I wanted to make a genetic plague that would make Ebola look like chicken pox, I could learn how; so why shouldn't I be allowed to play around with a piece of hardware I purchased?
You're comparing learning about how to do something, to actually doing it? Makes sense...
As I said previously, there's really little else to do with this information other than pirate games [since the PS3 is just a weak computer at heart] yes there're legal uses, but if you beleive anyone is actually going to go through all that trouble to use them you're incredibly naive, this information will no doubt cost Sony and developers, and bring the private companies that produce these goods and rely on continuous income to survive no potencial gains, only losses.
Most DRM is bullshit anyway, just like the "copy-protection" region coding on DVD players, which wasn't anything to do with piracy, rather it was there to inhibit free trade. What about PGP back in the 90s? The US government refused to allow it to be sold out of the states for a while there because it made snooping on people's information too hard, if they could have banned it for sale in the US, I'm sure they'd have done that in a heartbeat.
I have to laugh, you're going off on a rant about the US government in the 90's? Not only does that have nothing to do with the point - at all - you're just naming theories you have with little to no evidence to back them up. Prove the reason PGP wasn't given permission to be sold outside the states was due to "it made snooping on people's information too hard". If you can't, then there's no rational argument here - whilst my point [that releasing security information is more likely to present yourself as a potential target and offer assistance to your enemies] is pretty much common knowledge, it's why the Army goes to such lengths to protect secretive information, for example. Same goes for this hack, and pirating games - need evidence? Look at the DS.
If I buy something, and I've got the damn thing sitting in front of me I can do whatever I want to it, and big corp and his butt-monkey big government can piss off and die.
No, you can't - act as pretentious as you want - you're wrong, by law, and by terms and conditions you cannot "do whatever I want" to something...like modifying an Xbox 360 and then getting banned from Xbox Live, sure you could modify it, but no doubt you'd be the first to complain when you inevitably get banned...
