You know, GeoHot hacked the console’s firmware to allow custom firmware to run allowing homebrew games and apps to kick in.
Sony updated their firmware to lock the system back and fix that problem And seizing Geohot’s stuff.
Apparently, KaKaRoToKS was able to crack the thing again but a custom firmware isn’t out yet because the lock-down keys aren’t statically stored like before, they’re randomly generated. And, as expected, Sony sent a DMCA compliance to KaKaRoToKS to take down their stuff.
I know what I’ll say is going to cause a flaming war and all, but I don’t really believe in opening up a console firmware for homebrew apps\games… If you want to make a homebrew stuff, you have a PC you can work on with free tools y’know… But hey that’s what I believe in, what do you think?
i think that there is a good chance that this guy is urahara in his younger years.. if urahara was actually real
Making homebrew stuff for PS3 is somehow like jailbreaking an iphone, you bought the hardware so they have no right to lock which software you use for it.
It’s like one day I complained to HP about not finding a linux driver and they told me that the pc was ONLY designed to work with Winblows.
Again, you own the hardware, you are free about what you want to do with it 🙂
Imagine this, you go out and buy a car, you go get a body kit, what’s that ? you’re not allowed to install your own body kit because the car is made by cheverolet or ford and it’s their own trademarked design ?
well that’s just BULL SH*T 😀
In my opinion, software companies are the bigger theives, because they develop once, copy paste, and sell the same virtual product for loads of cash, compared to any other real product that you buy, whose value is actually something tangible
I’m not questioning the consumer’s right, I’m questioning the consumer’s need to hacking and homebrewing it.
The consumer is way better off doing his homebrews on a PC than a PS3
I agree with Loolykins in that this is just silly. I could write more, but it won’t change how stupid the whole situation is.
I’m not questioning the consumer’s right, I’m questioning the consumer’s need to hacking and homebrewing it.
The consumer is way better off doing his homebrews on a PC than a PS3
yes, but does this make it okay to take away a person’s right to hack what he owns?
I agree that homebrew is better off done on the PC (although many would disagree; special 256MB insanely-fast ram/vector processors would make it very useful in some fields), but this has nothing to do with my rights to hack the hardware I own; yes, I can’t lift the design and reproduce it as BS3 or something, but I have every right to hack it AND tell people about the method I used. if sony doesn’t want people to hack their system, it should come up with stronger security, and not take away people’s rights.
If you say EULA, I’ll say that only applies if I’m using the software and if I agree to it by clicking “I agree”. And even then, some EULAs are unenforceable by law.
If you say DMCA, I’ll say that piece of legislation is so full of holes that it’s subjective at best (Even though the DMCA bans jailbreaking stuff like the iphone, it has been exempted from the DMCA in the US).
If you say LOGIC, I’ll say that the majority of human race has lost it a long, long time ago, and that most don’t know their rights anymore or, even worse, are wiling to give them up just because they think that their prescription of what’s right/fair is correct when it’s clearly not.
I’ll never give up my rights even if I don’t need to exercise them. you shouldn’t too.
note: the first paragraph is a quotation.