Sony Threatens Permabans for PlayStation 3 Hackers

[major_chaos]

Uh isn't the solution to this to simply you know, disconnect your PS3 from the internet? Thats what I did anyway, I rather enjoy having all my classic games on one console.

 

[GAunderrated]

I'm not going to defend people who pirate but it still seems like a wrong thing to do to Brick a system that someone has bought and paid for. What you are calling a permaban i am reading as disabling the PS3 entirely, so forgive me if i got that bit wrong. A permaban from live/online/whatever i am quite behind, i mean why bother allowing pirates to play with the shinies, taking away something someone has paid for though...i cant get behind that

^this. While piracy shouldn't be condoned you can't deny that sony has a strong distaste for its own customers. Taking away features, acting like douches during the ps3 hack (they wised up later but never forget their initial oh well response), and now bricking entire systems because its doing something they don't want with a product that people paid for. I'm sorry but just because you crack the Ps3 doesn't legally mean they will pirate. Sure you can assume that they will but that isn't hard evidence to punish.

It is news stories like this why I refuse to support Sony anymore. I buy used and make sure they don't receive a dime until they treat consumers with some respect.

 

[zidine100]

riddle me this, if someone was going to crack there ps3 (im presuming its that, i honestly dont have enough interest to see how it works) would they really be stupid enough to connect to the main network?

 

[Zombie_Moogle]

Remember those people who bought a PS3 for the Linux support? or for backward compatibility?
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No. I remember a lot of people deriding both concepts when they were there and saying both were unimportant next to the price. Then I remember a lot of whining after they took away both and lowered the price, but I do not remember a period where people actually bought the Ps3 for backwards compatability or Linux support.

I know wasn't about to spend that kind of money on a PS3 (at the time) if it meant my years of amassing PS2 games was for naught

& Linux support had nothing to do with price. It's removal was an anti-piracy measure

 

[GAunderrated]

Remember those people who bought a PS3 for the Linux support? or for backward compatibility?
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No. I remember a lot of people deriding both concepts when they were there and saying both were unimportant next to the price. Then I remember a lot of whining after they took away both and lowered the price, but I do not remember a period where people actually bought the Ps3 for backwards compatability or Linux support.

I know wasn't about to spend that kind of money on a PS3 (at the time) if it meant my years of amassing PS2 games was for naught

& Linux support had nothing to do with price. It's removal was an anti-piracy measure

So that means you bought a Ps3 at launch, right? Since Ps2 backwards compatibility is more important than price?

Yes I actually bought the last 80GB Ps3's that had BC for both ps1/2 before they removed a good functionality of the system in order to say they "cut the price down". I'd rather pay a little more to have a very useful Ps3 so I don't have 3 systems hooked up instead of one that can do them all.

 

[esperandote]

Isn't permaban the standar punishment for pirates?

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

i'd have no problem even if they were bricking systems.... don't like the limitations of the system? dont buy it.... wanna run linux, or have a kick ass media server, or something else along those lines? buy a computer, not a console...



Captcha: Wide Berth: Just like my ass!!!

^Pretty much this. I don't know why people are so eager to sling mud at Sony for "attacking consumer rights". If they're breaking the rules in the agreement then they deserve to get punished.

And I highly doubt that people were buying PS3s JUST for Linux and backwards compatibility. People seem to be using that as the mainstay excuse to be mad at Sony here, even though the people that bough a launch PS3 for those reasons are in the extreme minority. I'm sorry but if you spent $699 on a console just because it had Linux, you wasted money. Could have built a better PC for that money if you wanted Linux that badly.

I can't say that Sony is doing the best handling of the situation but to call it an "attack on consumer rights" is bogus.

Don't connect your modded PS3 to the internet, and if having to do that peeves you, tough, you made your choice. Jailbreaking an iPhone, while legal, still voids the warranty on it, and modded 360s can't go online either.