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PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller
YokimaSun writes "The PS3 Hacking War took on a new turn few days ago with Sony releasing a new firmware that blocks USB devices, supposedly aimed at cloned PS3 Joypads, but more than likely to stop the efforts of hackers. Today the PS3 is now hackable using its own Sixaxis/DualShock 3 Controllers. How will Sony stop people now from playing emulators on the PS3?"
Many thanks to all the people who use their time, so that I can use my own hardware the way I want to!
I don't understand why you folks keep buying such consoles and other locked down devices. You're only encouraging the business model. Efforts to subvert the security measures brings risk of criminal liability. Perhaps the "inferior" alternatives would stop being so inferior and you'd get what you really want, but on your terms not theirs.
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My PC supports every major game that comes out, and I'm free to use my system however I wish.
Fuck you Sony, You removed the Other OS feature, now you remove USB support?
Why not remove video support too so no one can rip data via hdmi now that it is cracked?
Fucking shit. Sony. you suck a whores shit hole.
You can't play games online. Netflix doesn't use DNAS, it just connects directly to Netflix's servers. I'd be willing to bet it's just a normal BluRay.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Sony removed OtherOS citing worries about piracy, despite the fact that the system was uncracked after years of OtherOS inclusion.
Very shortly after its removal, various groups publicly announced their intention to crack the system specifically because of the OtherOS removal. They very quickly succeeded, and now Sony is going to have to live with nearly instant cracks of every version of their firmware because they riled up the wrong people. Piracy is now trivial on the PS3, with the usual caveat of no online multiplayer, all thanks to some executives irrational fear of at the time nonexistent pirates.
It's a pity that the executive in question will probably be rewarded because the current rise in piracy proves that he was right about the menace of game copiers in the first place!
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Sony, now 5 months after you killed linux on the system, there have been 4 different hacks, whereas for the 3 years you had left liunx being available to your customers, there where no hacks. I think we can now successfully say, "We told you so", when you decided to unilaterally removed an advertised feature from the PS3. The people with the knowledge to hack the system were finally given the reason to do so, because they wanted their linux back, but in doing so, that also released the floodgates of the tools used/developed to the people who simply want free games. Real smart move Sony.
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
How will Sony stop people now from playing emulators on the PS3
Oh come on, don't be absurd. This isn't about emulators, this is about piracy, pure and simple. You can try to sugarcoat it, but 99.9% of modded consoles never touch emulators / homebrew - they're only used to play commercial games without paying for them. Stop trying to act like you're the noble ones, here.
I'm sorry, you don't just lock out something and then claim to adhere to the bluetooth standard for HID WHILE BEARING ITS LOGO ON YOUR HARDWARE.
Hint: You can't, you're now violating your licensing agreement.
Sony can't do this. Microsoft can because they're using a proprietary bluetooth stack. Sony went STANDARDS and what they're doing is a clear violation of those standards.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Sony get a licensing fee per game sold for PS3. They don't make money when you buy a PS3.
If you could use all the hardware from OtherOS, then developers would just ship their games to run under OtherOS and not pay any licensing fees to Sony.
So Sony crippled OtherOS, same as they crippled NetYaroze and PS2 Linux. But even uncrippled, OtherOS still sucked. By the time Sony yanked it, PS3 was $400 and vastly inferior to any Linux machine you could build for $400 (and took twice the electricity to run!).
UMD was stupid. Selecting spinning media right at the time when solid state storage became very cheap was a huge mistake. But that is not why people hacked PSP. People hacked PSP because they wanted to get games for free. This is the same reason they hacked GBA and DS, neither of which had spinning media.
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You are 100% correct, in fact, a great bit of them did not have a law degree. However, once you're a member of the Supreme Court, you are a member of the bench, and thus, a lawyer. At the very least, you are not a member of the legislative branch.
My only point was that law is very rarely clear, and if you think it is, you're not thinking enough.
PA homicide law:
A person is guilty of criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or negligently causes the death of another human being.
Intentionally seems clear. It's defined as: Killing by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing.
So what if I'm hiding in the woods with my 30-06, lying in wait, hoping a deer crosses my path. I hear a noise, line up at the brown figure moving ahead of me, pull the trigger. Was that intentional?
So what if I'm driving on I-80, moving along at the speed limit of 65MPH, and *pop* out pops a kid crossing the freeway from the woods, 50 feet, or about half a second away from me. I have enough time to know it is a human being, and my vehicle contacting him has caused the death of him. Am I guilty of criminal homicide, because I knowingly killed a human being?
Of course, courts in the first instance would not find me guilty of intentionally killing someone, even if my actions met the definition of lying in wait. And in the second, I would probably not be found guilty of anything, even thought I knowingly killed a human being, in violation of the statute.
So, why does the parent poster think lawyers shouldn't "make the law mean something else?"
You know it's only the unlicensed third party controllers that don't work right? Regardless of Sony's intentions over the usb patch, why would anyone expect unlicensed hardware to work forever?
Why would you expect to require a license for a device that supports standard USB HID devices? You could (and still can, at least the two I tested) plug in any PC USB gamepad or joystick into your PS3 and it will work just fine (button and axis mapping might however be a bit mixed up).
Didn't he US navy or something do this? It was freaking genious because it's the US government who can basicaly tell Sony to do anything they want or to GTFO.
It was extremely cheap and it needed only a few PS3's. Even if it would totaly break within a year it would totaly be cost effective ;)
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