Come on people. While there are many who actually use a mod chip honorably to play import games, there is a significantly higher percentage of people who use it to pirate games. I have at least 2 friends who own a PS1 and neither of them own a single game, but their game libraries are in the fourties. We can all harp about how bad Sony is and the RIAA and MPAA and the DMCA etc. but the reality is, there are LOTS of people out there using technologies like this to pirate. Juuuussstt like Napster. Last I heard (someone can check me on this) pirated software resulted in a loss of around what, 6 billion dollars last year for developers?
Slashdot Mirror
Who researches this crap?!?!?!?!?!? (clever pun, I know. :) )
Come on people. While there are many who actually use a mod chip honorably to play import games, there is a significantly higher percentage of people who use it to pirate games. I have at least 2 friends who own a PS1 and neither of them own a single game, but their game libraries are in the fourties. We can all harp about how bad Sony is and the RIAA and MPAA and the DMCA etc. but the reality is, there are LOTS of people out there using technologies like this to pirate. Juuuussstt like Napster. Last I heard (someone can check me on this) pirated software resulted in a loss of around what, 6 billion dollars last year for developers?
Jussst my opinion, flame away.
Nick
What the hell took them so long?