Ohhai, I talk to several artists contracted under Sony all the time. I'm actually pretty deeply involved in the music, computer, semiconductor, and film industries.
I know how it works, I've seen the entire structure from bottom up. It's exactly the same as the corporation I'm a part of.
And no matter what, YOU STILL HAVE FIDUCIARY DUTIES.
Again, I repeat and stress, TRY BEING PART OF A CORPORATION.
We continue to buy their products in the hopes of catching them hard in something bad, and then using the past predatory practices recorded in court cases and what not to utterly destroy Sony once and for all.
'Thanks assholes, you killed a feature I liked and admired"
Thanks asshole for putting the blame on people that had nothing to do with it in the first place.
Thank you asshole for not having the balls to get a lawyer and stand up to this bullshit, thus giving the company incentive to continue the dishonest practices.
The current GPU in the PS3 is far more powerful than what the PS2 had, even one of the 3.2GHZ SPUs has more power. It would be trivial even under emulation to make it work just fine.
"I can't play Metal Gear Solid 4, Super SF 4, or Valkyria Chronicles on a PC built with ITX parts"
Actually you can. Got an SDK PS3? Got the Linux-based SDK IBM offers as well that runs on a PC? Take a PS3 game, import it through the Linux SDK, rip it, write new executable, play.
Sony is clueless - the pirating of PS3 games has already been happening. Mainly by the early adopters that bought the SDK systems.
Take them to court and file an injunction against all Sony imports and sales in the USA until they provide every customer with the originally advertised hardware. Or simply ban their sale in California, the world's 4th largest economy. They'll put the fuck up FAST.
OtherOS was available directly at launch. They heavily advertised the ability to install your own operating system.
And their current "It does everything" ad campaign is a total lie since the newer models and very soon older models with new firmware won't have some of the originally advertised capability.
I guess you know nothing much about how the system works, so I'll explain a little bit.
Enough lawsuits concerning violation of property rights will eventually lead to some very harsh laws being enforced.
See, I have the opportunity to hit Sony so hard and immediately EXCLUDE them from the 4th largest economy on the planet - California. I live here, I can sue here and get a permanent injunction barring the sale of all Sony goods.
Of course, since you think ONLY MONEY gets involved in a class-action suit, I see where you get the dumbass notion that class-actions only make lawyers rich.
"I'm pretty sure the lawyers in this case are going to pull all the Web 2.0 content created by the students involved. If they go down this path and find something that can be treated as a confession, then it's "News for nerds." or "Stuff that matters." Until we see that, it's more like the 6pm news here in the Boston area."
That's pretty sad you don't even have the basic reading skills of a third grader, otherwise you'd have seen several mentions CLEARLY in the article concerning online harassment.
Wonder if you voted Republican, with the kind of spin you're trying to put on this?
It's probably the minor hypervisor glitch I discovered back in 2.7 that allowed me to send more commands than I should have been able to send to the GPU, right past the hypervisor.
That was the best potential vulnerability we had at the time and I just stumbled upon it trying to figure out if I could tweak the encoder I was writing for the PPC Ubuntu install I had on at the time.
You could leverage the full power of all the cores minus the graphics core for processing. I re-encoded videos on my PS3 under linux far faster than my Windows system.
MOTHERFUCKER GIVE UP WHAT THE FUCK YOU PAID US FOR IF YOU WANT TO KEEP PLAYING ON OUR PLAYGROUND.
Make sense now? While you beat around the definitions, you fail to see that the very actions MEET the definition 100%. I paid for OtherOS, and now they're taking that ability away from me without due compensation, in fact saying that if I wish to play online or have access to newer online features, I have to give up what I paid for WITHOUT REFUND.
How the fuck is that not unjustly taking money from us, aka EXTORTION?
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Guess you've never played DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 - the Wii was NOT a power glove in that regard.
Granted they should have had motionplus built-in originally.
Ohhai, I talk to several artists contracted under Sony all the time. I'm actually pretty deeply involved in the music, computer, semiconductor, and film industries.
I know how it works, I've seen the entire structure from bottom up. It's exactly the same as the corporation I'm a part of.
And no matter what, YOU STILL HAVE FIDUCIARY DUTIES.
Again, I repeat and stress, TRY BEING PART OF A CORPORATION.
"He's ruined the credibility of a geek lawyer firm,"
The firm did that all by themselves the second they took on this bullshit case. Fuck them for trying to go after dollar signs instead of real justice.
We continue to buy their products in the hopes of catching them hard in something bad, and then using the past predatory practices recorded in court cases and what not to utterly destroy Sony once and for all.
Use their greed to bury them, basically.
'Thanks assholes, you killed a feature I liked and admired"
Thanks asshole for putting the blame on people that had nothing to do with it in the first place.
Thank you asshole for not having the balls to get a lawyer and stand up to this bullshit, thus giving the company incentive to continue the dishonest practices.
Thank you, asshole, for NOTHING.
The current GPU in the PS3 is far more powerful than what the PS2 had, even one of the 3.2GHZ SPUs has more power. It would be trivial even under emulation to make it work just fine.
"I can't play Metal Gear Solid 4, Super SF 4, or Valkyria Chronicles on a PC built with ITX parts"
Actually you can. Got an SDK PS3? Got the Linux-based SDK IBM offers as well that runs on a PC? Take a PS3 game, import it through the Linux SDK, rip it, write new executable, play.
Sony is clueless - the pirating of PS3 games has already been happening. Mainly by the early adopters that bought the SDK systems.
"They are basically made up of mostly autonomous units."
All controlled by the same fucking group of stockholders.
Sony is SONY, no matter how you try to twist it with that faulty logic.
Try being part of a corporation sometime and maybe you'll understand the real chain of command.
"But this name calling and blame-gaming is annoying."
Exactly, if anything, blame the assholes who won't stand up to Sony for constantly pulling this bullshit.
Geohot doesn't need to do a fucking thing. Sony needs to OWN UP TO THEIR ORIGINAL ADVERTISING and give EVERY PS3 owner "OtherOS" and BC.
get 4chan to start DDoSing the authentication key servers and trophy servers and THEN WHAT? Ain't nobody playing shit.
And maybe Sony will get the message.
No, he's a nutcase - look the name even says it!
No intellectual dishonesty about it - just plain irreversible stupidity.
It's only crippled if you NEED GPU access. If you don't, you can do anything else you want.
Trying to take it away will cost more.
Take them to court and file an injunction against all Sony imports and sales in the USA until they provide every customer with the originally advertised hardware. Or simply ban their sale in California, the world's 4th largest economy. They'll put the fuck up FAST.
"And Sony will respond by banning these people from PSN for hacking the PS3"
And we will respond by suing them for taking away a feature we paid for, period.
This is a total property rights violation once the console is out of their hands and in mine.
OtherOS was available directly at launch. They heavily advertised the ability to install your own operating system.
And their current "It does everything" ad campaign is a total lie since the newer models and very soon older models with new firmware won't have some of the originally advertised capability.
I guess you know nothing much about how the system works, so I'll explain a little bit.
Enough lawsuits concerning violation of property rights will eventually lead to some very harsh laws being enforced.
See, I have the opportunity to hit Sony so hard and immediately EXCLUDE them from the 4th largest economy on the planet - California. I live here, I can sue here and get a permanent injunction barring the sale of all Sony goods.
Of course, since you think ONLY MONEY gets involved in a class-action suit, I see where you get the dumbass notion that class-actions only make lawyers rich.
I got WAY MORE than a $5 voucher, buddy.
Again, no clue how the law works, eh?
Sega had this for the Genesis, along with the Octoring thing, worked with Eternal Champions.
AND IT WAS HORRIBLE.
"I'm pretty sure the lawyers in this case are going to pull all the Web 2.0 content created by the students involved. If they go down this path and find something that can be treated as a confession, then it's "News for nerds." or "Stuff that matters." Until we see that, it's more like the 6pm news here in the Boston area."
That's pretty sad you don't even have the basic reading skills of a third grader, otherwise you'd have seen several mentions CLEARLY in the article concerning online harassment.
Wonder if you voted Republican, with the kind of spin you're trying to put on this?
It's probably the minor hypervisor glitch I discovered back in 2.7 that allowed me to send more commands than I should have been able to send to the GPU, right past the hypervisor.
That was the best potential vulnerability we had at the time and I just stumbled upon it trying to figure out if I could tweak the encoder I was writing for the PPC Ubuntu install I had on at the time.
You could leverage the full power of all the cores minus the graphics core for processing. I re-encoded videos on my PS3 under linux far faster than my Windows system.
"However, it's not extortion. This is occurring long after Sony obtained the money for the system, so it basically can't be."
I see you have no clue how the Mafias, gangs, and the US Government like to operate.
Since you're apparently too dense to get it,
MOTHERFUCKER GIVE UP WHAT THE FUCK YOU PAID US FOR IF YOU WANT TO KEEP PLAYING ON OUR PLAYGROUND.
Make sense now? While you beat around the definitions, you fail to see that the very actions MEET the definition 100%. I paid for OtherOS, and now they're taking that ability away from me without due compensation, in fact saying that if I wish to play online or have access to newer online features, I have to give up what I paid for WITHOUT REFUND.
How the fuck is that not unjustly taking money from us, aka EXTORTION?
"It's a jerk move, sure, and maybe even class-actionable, but it's not extortion."
Hey you there, *slaps bat against hand* if youse wanna keep playin' on our turf, you gotta give up something that YOU PAID US FOR.
You better fucking believe this is extortion.