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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. Well, I'm not buying one by guyminuslife · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A PS3, I mean.

    It's not really a principled stand, but it could become one.

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

      I am actually rather tempted to buy a PS3 now and one of these dongles, and then take several pictures of me using the said dongle and send those over to Sony. Oh, and advertise the pics and the dongle on my website, too. Sony wouldn't have any legal leg to stand on if they tried to sue so I'd just get to laugh and annoy the hell out of them :]

      Oh, sometimes I'm just so glad to live in Finland :]

  2. Bubble by kurtis25 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This rash of crazy lawyer stories leads me to believe we are in a law suit Bubble. Eventually garbage law suits, Cease and Desists, threats, extra will come to an end bursting the bubble lawyers have grown so accustom to.

  3. The anti-homebrew stance explained by tepples · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why oh why is it so difficult for companies to allow the end user to use their devices to the fullest extent possible?

    So that they can squeeze more money out of developers. If homebrew were easy, or even as easy as it is on iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad, major labels would develop and sell their games through the homebrew path to market to cut overhead.

    HOW ABOUT THIS: why not allow for home brew, but prevent media copying?

    Allowing homebrew will inevitably result in media copying. This could be through cloning of patented games (such as Dance Dance Revolution), through cloning of games on whose rules the developer makes a flimsy copyright claim (such as Tetris), or through infringing ROM images that run on homebrew emulators.

  4. People still buy shit from Sony? by WCMI92 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Really? After so many years of producing shit that they can't even sell TV's (something Sony used to be famous for making the best) under their own name anymore, why do people still buy ANYTHING Sony?

    The premise of threatening OWNERS of a piece of hardware for doing with that hardware whatever they please, which they have the absolute right to do (including burning it or running over it with the car) is ridiculous. And if someone is finally going to be stupid enough to sue a customer over violating a shrinkwrap, unilateral, "we reserve the right to change anything at any time at our SOLE discretion" EULA, please, PLEASE for the love of God let it be a company as stupid, corrupt and intellectually bankrupt as Sony.

    Threatening end users who make modifications to the console that they PURCHASED is as ridiculous as Ford suing me for buying one of their cars then changing the rims so I can put a different size of tire on them...

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  5. I bought a psjailbreak device to repair my ps3 by Bert64 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I bought a PS3 to run linux and play around with cell programming...

    Sony broke my ps3 by updating the firmware to 3.30, so i bought a dongle which i intend to use to repair the otherwise broken system:

    http://www.ps3hax.net/2010/10/asbestos-running-linux-as-gameos/

    All i'm doing, is fixing advertised functionality which was present in the ps3 when i bought it.

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