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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. 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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  3. Re:Other OS was shut down by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes.

    Why has everyone IGNORED the glaring fact in the room.

    None of this crap was going on with any strength until sony became idiots and shut down the OtherOS function.

    It's their fault. They caused it, and they will lose.

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