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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?"
Adopt the kindle attitude to hacking.
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This will be another firmware update and poof! All your base are belong to us!
Many thanks to all the people who use their time, so that I can use my own hardware the way I want to!
How will Sony stop people now from playing emulators on the PS3?"
Firmware updates.
3.50 still doesn't jailbreak. You can't go online with a 3.41 firmware either.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Sony deserves this for breaking my ps3predator, What are they gunna do now disable the controller that came with my console?
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.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
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.
I have multiple 3rd party controllers that no longer work with the PS3.
So lawyers that like cases they're guaranteed to win - who wants to join me in a class action against Sony?
We're gong for full-out charges of fraud, bait and switch, deceptive and misleading advertising, and theft of services.
I think the dollar amount sufficient enough to garner media attention will be 100 BILLION dollars.
Oh, and we need to let the EU know that Sony committed massive fraud against them, as well.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
The Escapist's webcomic Critical Miss seems disturbingly accurate.
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"
From what I gather, it's some sort of whitelist of device or manufacturer IDs. The practical effect is that now only official Sony devices and devices that look exactly *like* official Sony devices work. But there is no crypto-auth on them, just some numbers it reads off. Some third-party accessories simply copied Sony's official ID numbers, and those still work. Some used their own, and those do not.
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.
Most professional politicians at the federal level in the US are lawyers. As such, it is in the best interest of themselves and their guild to make "the law" as convoluted, arcane and incomprehensible as possible, in order to insure present and future lucrative job security.
Ever wonder why we have no obvious simple real patent reform? It would cost the lawyers guild too much money. Tax code simplification? Cost the lawyer guild too much money. Rein in corporations and make individuals responsible for all actions? Lawyers guild loses out big time. "IP" issues? and etc.
Look at most issues, and especially with finance, but it goes across the spectrum, and you'll find the common sense easy solution is always avoided, because *it would cost the lawyer guild too much (lost) money*.
Now look again who "makes the laws", then "interprets" the laws? Professional lawyers. A clear conflict of interest this is ignored on purpose. It is always to their benefit to make things way way WAY more complicated than they need to be.
I used to regularly buy stuff from PSN. Then they removed linux. I thought I wouldn't miss it much, so I updated anyway. But I do. So now that there's a hack and a hope for getting linux back, I'm not updating. Sadly, that means I can no longer buy anything from PSN. Too bad. I was hoping to get the new Lara Croft and the guardian of light game and maybe the deathspank expansion. Hey Sony! I have money right here! You can have it if you let me back into your store and/or put linux back in!
May the source be with you.
Actually, I'd say that they took perfect revenge. "Fuck you, you took away my options because you're pissy about piracy? Well, suck on this, I'mma making piracy goddamn trivial, you assholes."
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
Check the archives. Researchers built a whopping supercomputer with ps3's.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
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?"
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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