Sony Taking Down PSP Titles In Response To Vita Hackers

Carlos Rodriguez writes "The hacker community has found a way to make the Vita run unsigned code by exploiting weaknesses in PSP games available for download in the PSN store. In response, Sony has made the affected games unavailable for download for all platforms — PSP and Vita both — even if you had already paid for it and hadn't had the chance to download it yet. In the case of 'Everybody's Tennis', the game was removed from the PSN worldwide after the modder community bragged about the game being exploitable but before any exploit was released for it. Is Sony being too overzealous in its fight against piracy?"

Comments

Re:This is Sony

[dnaumov]

What always confuses me is why anybody ever buys anything from Sony. They started to go mental in the mid-90's, and then went full retard in the early '00's. At this point surely you'd have to be a masochist to willingly purchase a Sony product and subject yourself to such treatment?

Now, I really really hate a lot of things that Sony has been doing for the past 10-15 years and I wouldn't touch Vita and a lot of their other products with a ten foot pole, but I find their TVs to be really really good value for the money and I am extremely happy to own one.

Re:Sony used to be a respected company

[mrpacmanjel]

Interesting, why is my comment tagged as "Troll"?