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Sony Refuses To Sanction PS3 "Other OS" Refunds
Stoobalou writes "Sony says that it has no intention of reimbursing retailers if they offer users partial refunds for fat PS3s. Last week, the first PS3 user successfully secured a partial refund from Amazon UK as compensation for the removal of the ability to run Linux on the console. The user quoted European law in order to persuade the online retailer that the goods he had bought in good faith were no longer fit for his purposes because of the enforcement of firmware update 3.21, which meant that users who chose to keep the Other OS functionality would lose the ability to play the latest games or connect to the PlayStation Network."
Read the EULA here. ( http://www.scei.co.jp/ps3-eula/ps3_eula_en.html )
It is explicitly said in the EULA that the warranty of "fitness for a particular purpose" is totally disclaimed in any imaginable or non-imaginable way.
The EULA applies to firmware, too, according to the 3rd paragraph.
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Cool story, bro.
I think saying that the Hypervisor is "fundamentally broken" is a gross exaggeration. Geohot's hack did little more than make a dent in the outer ring of security and was nothing more than a PR stunt to inflate his reputation.
People have been trying to hack the PS3 for years in an attempt to pirate games and failed miserably. Geohot claims to have "broken" the PS3 encryption, leading to a flood of interest in hacking the PS3 to enable pirating. Sony decides having the Linux OS option isn't worth risking the PS3 turning into another Dreamcast and removes the feature.
If you want to blame someone for losing the OS option, aim your attacks straight at Geohot. Thanks to him and him alone you've lost the OS functionality.
Just asserting lies doesn't make them true.
And Pystar was in violation of the DMCA.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?