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Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers

Posted by Soulskill on from the give-it-a-rest dept.

YokimaSun writes "The war between hackers and Sony over the PlayStation 3 has now taken an even more sinister turn, with Sony going after not just shops but actual buyers of the PSBreak dongle, threatening them with fines of many thousands of Euros and forcing them to sign cease-and-desist letters. It seems Sony will use any means necessary to thwart both homebrew and piracy on the PS3."

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  1. Missing from the summary by millennial · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Sony is now requesting every buyer to transfer the rights to request the package back from customs over to Sony Computer Entertainment and to agree on the destruction of the device." Only happening in Germany, and likely has to do with lenient laws there that would allow it.

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  2. Other OS was shut down by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    What Sony should do is open up a sandbox environment in the PS3 in which homebrew developers can run their own software without problems.

    It did, until the slim PS3 came out and Sony left out the Other OS drivers to cut cost. Then the first hints of cracks came out with the stated goal of reenabling Other OS on the slim PS3, and Sony pushed out PS3 system software 3.21 to shut them down on the original PS3. Then the cat and mouse game started in earnest.

    I don't see why piracy and homebrew are always treated as one by these console developers.

    I explained the rationale against homebrew in another comment.

  3. Re:The public is Never Gonna Give Sony Up by Narishma · · Score: 3, Informative

    So?
    You asked why are people still buying from Sony and he gave you a few reasons. They make popular movies, music and games. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant.

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  4. Re:I bought a psjailbreak device to repair my ps3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here you go, current and a copy from 2006

  5. Re:Well, I'm not buying one by Pikoro · · Score: 3, Informative

    [HOWTO] Arduino Duemilanove Playstation 3 Jailbreak - Part 1: Hardware Build

    That should do it right there.

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  6. Re:Well, I'm not buying one by Gaygirlie · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wasn't planning to buy a dongle at all, I own a Nokia N900 which can be used as a dongle if I just install PSFreedom on it.