A Week In Comments

What was done is a good thing. Until I start renting consoles, I own it. It’s mine. If I want to throw a bunch of zeros and ones at it, or a rock, it’s my choice and no one can say otherwise cause it’s mine. Sony removed linux and people started hacking their console. The people who did the hacking have zero interest in piracy, they simply owned a piece of hardware that was crippled and they decided to fix that.

Sure there will be piracy, but every console has piracy. Sony had a extremely good run and hopefully they will learn their lesson next gen by giving hackers, and other interested minds access to the guts of the hardware – leaving those talented enough to crack it no reason to. Meaning only those interested in piracy will be trying to crack it.

The game industry has grown despite the wide spread availability of highspeed connections and easy tools to download copyrighted material. The game industry isn’t hurting cause of piracy. Claims that piracy is hurting them is a convenient excuse to make up for bad games, poor marketing or simply lack of a interested market.

All that this hack has done is made it possible to do things on your console sony either doesn’t want you to, doesn’t have time for, or has no profitable side effect of doing so. It also means that years later your console might not become a paperweight, and have some other uses. Much like how the xbox1 became a very nice media center with XBMC. It also means that long after the PSN is shutdown you can still play games online.

“…you get the false impression you are improving as a person.”

A rather apt description of a psychology degree.