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PS3 With 3.50 Firmware Jailbroken Without Downgrade

Posted by timothy on from the next-is-home-distilling dept.

Khyber writes "Hackers: 2 Sony: 0 — that's the current standing score now that the X3 team have successfully performed a jailbreak on the official 3.50 PS3 firmware, allowing homebrew applications and more to be enabled. Here's a video of the jailbreak in action."

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  1. We should follow the example of Stephen Colbert by Hojima · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the hell is it called jail breaking when applying these modifications? It should have nothing to do with jail, and you're certainly not breaking it. I say, hence forth, we call it 'freedom upgrading'.

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    1. Re:We should follow the example of Stephen Colbert by EdIII · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't care if it is 100% "free entertainment". It is, always has, and always will be about freedom, liberty, and their crucial components, privacy and anonymity.

      The PS3 is merely one small battle. The poster that said "Consumer Rights Rebalancing" had it right. This is very much about consumer rights, however, it should be about a larger issue. Rights all Americans, and free human beings, should have in cyberspace. That war is being fought with people largely ignorant of the whole affair or how important it is.

      Let's face it. It would be far easier if the situation were explained thusly:

      Sony, for the consideration of $600, and service fees, offers the consumer a PS3 entertainment console. There will be a Sony representative physically in your home at all times. Sony will decide what games will function, and what will not, at Sony's direct discretion at all times. All media, All software, All content is the direct property of Sony and can be altered or withdrawn at any time. Any services or features that were present at the time of purchase are not guaranteed to be present in the future. Attempts to remove the Sony representative from your home, or distract him from his official duties, in any way, is against the law and you will be prosecuted to its full extent. Guilt before innocence will be assumed in all cases.

      Now, if you were offered that deal, would you accept it? No? Then why is DRM and protection mechanisms designed to take away your ability to peacefully enjoy your property any more acceptable?

      I will stipulate that 100% of PS3 owners will commit copyright infringement. It still does not justify that Sony representative being in your house and your inability to actually enjoy the rights of property ownership over property you actually paid for.

      The ends do not justify the means here. That goes not just for Sony, but for every manufacturer and content distributor. Stay. The. Fuck. Out. Of. My. Home.

  2. Re:ok .. by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sony is worse for having shipped the console touting its ability to run Linux, then removing that option remotely. I'm not a huge fan of any of the consoles, but neither Microsoft nor Nintendo can match Sony in asshatness.

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  3. Re:4 years by Osgeld · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no one was really trying that hard for 3.5 of those 4 years, until they started removing features "just because"

    sony's other current gen console has been gang rapped so many times they even removed the disc drive

  4. Re:Interesting scorekeeping by LrdDimwit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Furthermore, how can you possibly call the score 2-0 for the hackers? Sony closed the first hole! If the hackers score a point when they poke a hole in Sony's defenses, shouldn't Sony score for closing said hole? And shouldn't Sony ALSO score points for preventing the holes from being found in the first place? A game where you can only ever tie your opponent is no fun, after all. Although I suppose that would be an interesting metaphor for the war they're waging now; you can never win, all you can hope to do is not lose.

  5. Re:So what does Sony break next? by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I tell somebody that I'm going to smack them if they don't stop whistling, and they continue to whistle, who is the person at fault?

    Scary analogy. Have you ever uttered the phrase "Why you make me hit you, baby?"

  6. Re:4 years by Osgeld · · Score: 5, Insightful

    well the developing world is not buying 600$ consoles are they? (which is what it cost up till last year)

  7. I win by __aaqvdr516 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Me 1, Sony 0

    If you don't buy from a company, you automatically win.