Sony Halts Sales of PS3 Jailbreak Dongle 179
An anonymous reader tips news that "Online Australian retailer Quantronics has been ordered by the Federal Court of Australia, Victoria District Registry on the 26 August 2010 to halt PS JailBreak PS3 modchip sales and distribution." The court order (.DOC) indicates this injunction will hold until a hearing on August 31. Another reader points out related news that a German website claims to have reverse engineered the hack, finding it to be a newly-developed exploit rather than a clone of Sony's JIG module (original in German). Sony has already been banning users of the modchip when detected.
Sorry Sony ... (Score:5, Funny)
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Jail Break City, where people who bought your crap can enjoy it how they want
Unless of course if 'they want' to log into the PSN or play on Sony's servers. Just saying, there's plenty that Sony can do, especially since this is the only hack available and it can apparently be detected server side.
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I bought my PS3 just to be a media center. Plays my DVDs, my Blu-Ray discs, and my Netflix Watch It Now. I could care less if I get banned from PSN. That's what my Xbox360 and Gold account is for =)
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Uh, you need to sign into PSN to use Netflix
That's not true. Netflix streaming works without logging into PSN. I have a fat PS3 that I haven't updated (so that I can keep the Other OS option) and I stream movies regularly. Although, I am a bit concerned that they may disable the disks when they release the software version in October. If that requires a firmware update, I may need to jailbreak just to keep Netflix.
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Fuck you, Sony (Score:4, Interesting)
I still buy your consoles and games beause I enjoy them...I can't escape that. However, I will NEVER forgive you for what you did to Lik Sang [kotaku.com]. You will forever be bastards because of that.
Oh, and guess what? I buy all your games USED.
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It's one of the reasons (among many) I have no PlayStation anymore...
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Re:Fuck you, Sony (Score:4, Insightful)
The funny thing
Re:Fuck you, Sony (Score:5, Insightful)
When all the costs of bringing your product to market are front-loaded, and all the revenue then comes from enforcing artificial scarcity of reproducing the finished product, you're in a very different world from selling manufactured goods. Same thing comes up with pharmaceuticals. I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's certainly an interesting problem.
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Console companies on the other hand, have a choice, they don't have to use the system as a loss leader and make it up on the content. In fact
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Not to mention most pharmaceuticals are consumables.
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"Same thing comes up with pharmaceuticals."
"Have some crack, kid!"
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Games absolutely are different than movies at least, which have a theater period where there can not be a used market (outside of bootlegging, I suppose) to recoup their initial investment before the DVD sales begin. Games don't have that.
Re:Fuck you, Sony (Score:5, Insightful)
They got their portion of the used sale already; the ability to sell it a game secondhand is valuable, and priced in to the original sale price.
If developers (or distributors) think the ability re-sale is worth more than they're getting for it now, they should raise their prices and see whether consumers agree.
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Not to come across as a corporate shill, but the price of games has not changed over the last 10+ years. Well actually they've *come down* since the atari days. The problem is with games' exponentially rising budgets the industry can't sustain itself. People won't even accept price increases to keep up with inflation. They think games that give them tens of hours of game time and fun are far too expensive relative to a $10-15 movie that gives them less than 2 hours of immersion.
Think about it. $50 sp
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Think about it. $50 spent on a Nintendo game in 1985 (and there were often costlier games) would cost $98.37 today. Looking at a more recent period of time, a $50 PS1 game would in '95 cost 69.71 today. And yet the uproar over the bump up to $60 for current generation games was immense.
Physical costs have also plummeted. And the industry has moved to disc-based games. Development platforms cost less (adjusted for inflation.)
The problem is with games' exponentially rising budgets the industry can't sustain itself.
Which comes from people trying to one-up each other. It's a bubble, just like the housing market. The industry is doing this to itself.
As you say, Nintendo saw the writing on the wall and sidestepped the competition. They were agile and continue to make good money. That Sony and Microsoft can't do this isn't really the consumer's fault--yet game devs treat consum
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On the flip side, Sony and Ms's biggest tend to be third party games, which are less profitable. they also don't have the same name power that Nintendo
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Re:Fuck you, Sony (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, that's basically why I have a permenant boycott of Bioware going on. See, the extra weapons and levels for Mass Effect 2 if you buy it new, that's obnoxious. But, they put a used game salesman character onto the Citadel, who chuckles about what a killing he makes, while the starving developers go out of business. They're not content with always on DRM locking out features if you try to install your game on a second 360, they have to kick us in the balls and spit in our faces, too.
It's not just devs, either. Apparently the folks at Penny Arcade believe that buying a used game is actually worse than pirating, because with piracy you are at least not giving money to anybody, but with a used game you are both stealing AND giving money to a leech.
I asked them why selling a used game should be a crime, but lending a friend a game or a book, which they often portray in their comics, is acceptable. No answer. In publishing "both sides" they only publish comments in agreement, or comments "backing up" used games as evil, but a necessary evil for those on a budget. I also pointed them in the direction of a huge piracy mill that's stealing millions of copies of their precious anthologies. [torontopubliclibrary.ca] No idea their take on that, but I bet they are contacting their lawyers! Their other blazing hypocracy is that their child's play charity donates games and systems to children's wards across the country. Each child doesn't need to pay for their own copy, the developer only gets paid ONCE (a condition they decry as black market theft) and yet, more than one child gets to play. Outrageous.
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I don't read PA regularly, but I'm going to have to ask for a citation of your claim that they are anti-used-game-sales. That's not something I've ever noticed them taking a stance on directly, but if anything I'd expect them to support it.
So... link please?
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Apparently the folks at Penny Arcade believe that buying a used game is actually worse than pirating, because with piracy you are at least not giving money to anybody, but with a used game you are both stealing AND giving money to a leech.
I don't quite know where you got that from.
Oh wait, I get it. I see http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/ [slashdot.org] what you mean. However, I feel you're not reading it with an open mind.
Tycho states the following.
If I am purchasing games in order to reward their creators, and to ensure that more of these ingenious contraptions are produced, I honestly can't figure out how buying a used game was any better than piracy. From the perspective of a developer, they are almost certainly synonymous.
I can see why you'd construe that to mean "PENNY ARCADE HAET PIRATE AND U R PIRATE." (Yes, yes, I know mocking his position by portraying him as a braying idiot is infantile. I do it anyhow.) However, if you pay attention to his words he states that "If" you purchase games to reward their creators, then it
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But if you just wait a few months, many/most of the games are cheap new. While I'm "still" buying PS2 games, I will eventually get a PS3, and am seeing PS3 games already in the low $20s in ads. (The Greatest Hits seemed to be stuck at $30 for quite a long time, but now going down to the common $20 price, like the PS2 older-and-Greatest-Hits versions price.)
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Game developers are pretty much the only assholes out there that can actually say out loud that "first sale" doctrine is 'theft'. The interesting bit here, will be when someone sues them for it, and wins. I'm guessing it won't be too much longer. A nice little class action would go a long ways to put game publishers and developers back in their place. I'll
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So, I guess "Fuck you, Sony" is the implicit position of 99%
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Sony has lost a lot of credibility in my eyes due to recent experiences.
I bought a PS3 a few months ago, and it's quite a nice machine... but it has some really odd decisions. You have to have the system on to charge the controllers by plugging them into the system. If you plug them into your laptop instead, they seem to unregister with the system and you have to pair them back up.
Then I decided to buy a game from PSN. I needed the latest firmware, which took a few minutes to download and a few minutes to
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Honestly, we don't really use our PS3 for gaming too much. We own 5 disc-based games for it, and have downloaded three from the PSN (compared to about 15 for the Wii with countless downloads, and about 30 for the 360 with countless downloads).
No, our PS3 is used primarily as a media center. It's a decent gaming machine, but it's a fantastic media center. Of course, TVersity puts the 360 and the PS3 on equal footing in regards to media, but using just the consoles themselves, the PS3 is vastly superior fo
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If you're going to copy/paste your troll posts, at least do yourself the courtesy of updating the games you claim to play. As it is, I don't believe a word you say here. For example, Patapon 2 [wikipedia.org] was released well over a year ago (North America: May 2009) and not "a few months ago" like your post implies. And I know you're in North America, because Patapon 2 was download-only for NA only. So there.
As for the rest of your troll:
Sony has lost a lot of credibility in my eyes due to recent experiences. I bought a PS3 a few months ago, and it's quite a nice machine... but it has some really odd decisions. You have to have the system on to charge the controllers by plugging them into the system. If you plug them into your laptop instead, they seem to unregister with the system and you have to pair them back up.
I call bullshit on this one. I often charge my PS3 controllers using the USB port on
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It's not a troll, and it's not a copy and paste. I wrote "Then I saw a game on sale for my PSP that I wanted to play", and that's what happened. When Patapon 2 came out, I didn't bother, and hadn't gotten around to playing it. The price drop to $8 was on the Playstation blog [playstation.com]) on the 16th as a "Back to School" deal.
My PS3 controller seems to pair with my MacBook Pro 2010 when I plug it in, or at least lose it's PS3 pairing. It's perfectly reproducible for me.
My internet connection is a 6Mbps (see later in
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After that even when disconnected for a day, pressing the home button caused it to appear in my mac bluetooth connected devices list instead of powering on the PS3. Pairing it with the PS3 again took about 5 seconds, and tbh I quite like it this way. It proves(ish) that Sony is using off the shelf parts or following a *standard* instead of inventing some proprietary garbage.
It proves no such thing because the home button is not part of the bluetooth spec. It would make more sense if pressing the home button would reassociate it to the PS3, and turn it on. Microsoft's use of non-bluetooth is annoying, but at least the button always turns on my 360, even if I've plugged it into my netbook to recharge it.
Note that the PS3 bluetooth remote control is NOT a standard HID device. So really, Sony uses standards when they are convenient, and shits on them every other time. It cannot ha
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I still buy your consoles and games beause I enjoy them...I can't escape that.
You are a pathetic excuse for a human being. Fuck you for helping Sony continue to be evil. You are partly responsible for Sony killing this modchip. You will be partly responsible for the next Lik-Sang.
Oh, and guess what? I buy all your games USED.
At least that's something. You have to also only buy them when nobody else is buying them, though, or else you will just lead someone to a new sale when they could otherwise have been satisfied with used. The only way to make sure not to produce profit for Sony is to not even buy a PS3 until the PS4 comes ou
Re:Fuck you, Sony (Score:5, Interesting)
You mean his sig? His sig that plugs his site? No one else's sig plugs their site? His sig that you can turn off if you don't want to see it? You mean him plugging Kotaku, like kotaku needs plugging? I'm not sure I see your angle.
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Re:Fuck you, Sony (Score:5, Funny)
It's actually a great example of the Streisand effect...we've gotten over 500 visitors in a single day for only the fifth time since we started the site, and that number is steadily rising. Thanks, random AC who hates the fact that we contribute our time and money to nerd culture!
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I only post links to either my music or my website when it's pertinant to what's being discussed.
As far as linking to my site in my sig, again, I do it so more people are aware of a free resource. Like I said in a previous post, there isn't a single advertisement on our site, and nothing we review is given to us. We do it strictly to contribute to the culture...despite the fact that it costs us both time and money, it costs the public absolutely nothing.
Whether we get 10 visitors or 10,000, we make exactl
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You're right...our motivation is to give back to a community that has given us a hell of a lot (including something to bond over, which eventually led to us getting married.) We felt that we've been given far too much by nerd culture without giving anything in return.
Our motivation is nothing more than providing a free service...the same applies to the music I make, which, even if I end up selling one day, will still always be legally available for free.
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'fuck you sony' seems quite appropriate here. turn off sigs and be quiet. I haven't had them on in... well... forever.
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I wouldn't possibly leave a one liner just to draw people to my site......
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Two things.
1. there is some truth to what the AC said. Most of the time, I try to post comments that contribute to the discussion or provide a perspective on the conversation no one else has mentioned yet...however, there are times where I do indeed post just for exposure.
2. On my site, you will never find any form of advertising. My site is run completely out of pocket with zero intent on making a profit (or even making back the $15 a month hosting fee/yearly registration fee). It's something I do as a
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So tell me how my post in this story, in which I link to Kotaku explaining how Sony fucked over a well-liked privately owned importer that Sony used for its own executives, adds nothing to the discussion.
The story is about Sony halting sales. I posted a link to another story (again, on Kotaku) about Sony halting sales. I fail to see how that is irrelevant.
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... Kotaku explaining how Sony fucked over a well-liked privately owned importer that Sony used for its own executives...
But was it Sony purchasing the items as a company, for their execs, or was it the execs purchasing items for themselves?
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Fair enough.
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If nothing else, for at least this one, solitary thing: Prinny [wikipedia.org].
That is all.
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Read this comment as I booted Disgaea 3 for the first time ^_^
France (Score:5, Informative)
They should relocate to France. French courts have already ruled circumvention devices legal [tomsguide.com] when there is no other way to run your own software on your machine.
Re:France (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah but then you have to learn French, and you're also stuck living in France.
Some things just aren't worth it, mate.
Re:France (Score:4, Interesting)
Universal health care, cure French girls, good restaurants, great culture (ok ok immigration problems but hey, habla espagnol?)
France is not as bad as depicted, especially when you compare CURRENT standards of living in the US, not the ones that were true 5-10 years ago
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Universal health care, cure French girls,
Why? Are they sick?
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Universal health care, cure French girls,
Why? Are they sick?
Nah, cure in the baking sense, because if you don't, you really don't want to cannibalize one. Too many diseases, plus you really need to get all that hair off to make them at all appetizing.
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Universal health care, cure French girls, good restaurants, great culture (ok ok immigration problems but hey, habla espagnol?)
France is not as bad as depicted, especially when you compare CURRENT standards of living in the US, not the ones that were true 5-10 years ago
Except that based on other comments he's made, I don't think he's American, so it's irrelevant what American standards are...
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Oh I know, I just like to hate on the French because I am Canadian, thus forced to try and learn the language for half a dozen years of my life despite whether I want to or not (and they're forced to try English whether they want to or not, so its a mutual dislike for each other). I wouldn't normally hold a grudge but the drivers in Quebec (mostly Montreal though) are quite possibly the worst drivers on the planet. The stop sign is just a suggestion over there.
None of that really has anything to do with Fra
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in fact, I think the French don't like Quebec either, for butchering their language..
As I assume the Brits aren't huge fans of Texans.
When I was in highschool I went to France with my remedial Canadian school system "French" (every useless noun you could ever learn, but not enough verbs to have a proper conversation). I was able to understand the French people no problem. They speak clear, slow, enunciate.. honestly it's a beautiful language.
Now compare that to the Québécois. Messy, fast, slurred with lots and lots of slang. To me it's like ear rape by comparison. They're shov
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Universal health care, cure French girls, good restaurants, great culture (ok ok immigration problems but hey, habla espagnol?)
You forgot the massive [guardian.co.uk] amount of intolerance. [voanews.com]
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How would they help? Sony is blocking the importation of them into Australia, and will do so in any other country that lets them (US for sure, and likely most of Europe and Canada as well).
Besides, Sony will continue to ban people from PSN when they detect it, simply because it violates the PSN ToS. And yes, that's ToS, not EULA, as PSN is not a
WTF? (Score:4, Insightful)
Right, so Sony had almost exactly what they wanted in regards to control over their system. Then they decided that "almost" wasn't good enough and now they're knee deep in the shit storm they started and trying to litigate their way out of it. Its costing them in company rep and in their pocket books with legal fees.
I hope the industry learns something from this, but sadly it probably won't.
Re:WTF? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm 100% sure they'll learn the lesson: you can successfully stop widespread distribution of hacks that jailbreak your system, and laugh all the way to the bank when no one cares and buys your system at christmas anyway.
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You sir are a clueless cretin if you actually believe this dongle wouldn't be on sales had it not been for Sony removing OtherOS.
This dongle is for piracy, nothing else....
Simple as that, it does not allow you to boot Linux, and has no legitimate purpose. The backup excuse does not wash either, as Blu-Ray disks are not scratchable like DVD is.
Re:WTF? (Score:4, Informative)
Blu-ray discs are TOTALLY scratchable. Worse than DVDs actually. Netflix released their data on it and found that Blu-ray discs are damaged far more often than DVDs suffering the same treatment in their envelopes and by their customers. Other than that, I mostly agree with you. Backups is code for piracy for 99.5% of the people claiming it as fair use. Especially considering Sony has been pretty progressive lately about releasing formerly disc only games as pure download and install versions. It's not much, but it's progress...
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If I were willing to lay down the coin for a PSJailbreak, I know of a few games in my collection that would immediately get run through the Backup Manager if only because they have "unpleasant" load times and being on a HDD would vastly improve them. The lack of any other homebrew at this point makes it less attractive though, and by the time there is significant other homebrew it'll be cloned and cheap.
It's actually a bummer that it's not a reverse engineered JIG stick though -- if it were it would be ess
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Actually, as a Netflix subscriber, I can tell you that the big problem with Blu-Ray discs is not scratches (they are actually more resilient to a scratch than DVD, presumably because of even greater error correction), but they get a ¼" crack near the edge when they go through the postal sorter.
I have had about 15 discs that I have had to return because of this problem. The Netflix rep said that our post office was one of the worst offenders at putting the discs through the machine which they have cont
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You sir are a clueless cretin if you actually believe this dongle wouldn't be on sales had it not been for Sony removing OtherOS.
This dongle is for piracy, nothing else....
Simple as that, it does not allow you to boot Linux, and has no legitimate purpose. The backup excuse does not wash either, as Blu-Ray disks are not scratchable like DVD is.
You can eat a dick. You don't tell me what the fuck I do with my console, that I paid with my own money. If I want to fucking burn it, I will. If I want to insert a PSJailbreak in it, I will.
And you go and fuck yourself, along with your "I know what's best for you" logic.
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You don't tell me what the fuck I do with my console, that I paid with my own money. If I want to fucking burn it, I will. If I want to insert a PSJailbreak in it, I will.
Go ahead, nobody's going to stop you from sticking whatever you want wherever you want. Sony is preventing the distribution of a device that solely exists to pirate games that they make money on. I don't know what type of work you do, but if someone started selling a device that would allow them to obtain your product without paying you any money you would damn sure do everything you could to stop it.
Do whatever you want with your PS3. If you've got one of these things, go ahead and do whatever you want
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Devil advocate here:
Has Sony lost any real battles fought over the PS/3? A guy found a way to the hypervisor, so they zapped the Other OS feature. Someone else has a jailbreak dongle which got stomped out of existence.
I don't see anywhere in this matter where Sony is out any significant profits whatsoever. So far, having the most locked down platform with no usable cracks happening for almost five years, and when one does appear, siccing the lawyers and nuking it from orbit gets rid of it, seems to be a
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Except for the fact that sony has lost an absolute truckload of money on the PS3 in general. These little bits are just adding insult to injury.
http://kotaku.com/5018899/sony-lost-over-3-billion-to-ps3-cost-pricing-imbalance [kotaku.com]
3 billion and thats from back in 2008. The thing only started turning a profit q2 2010 so tack on whatever was lost in the in between time, and sony is still lagging as the 3rd most popular console on a contest field of 3. This is the furthest thing from a successful business model.
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True, but they have lost nothing for having such a locked down platform. The fact that they have had -zero- piracy on the PS3 for years is something which draws the PC gaming companies to their platform like flies to fresh meat.
Unfortunately, these days, there is nothing a company will lose by having a locked down platform and everything to gain. Which is ironic. One of the reasons Sony lost the MP3 player game is because they had such Draconian DRM. This caused people to flee from Sony to first Creativ
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The thing you're missing is that the consumers are still flocking to the systems with less DRM. Sure Sony maintains a market share, mostly through virtue of its locked down platform attracting developers, but I would argue locking it down more when they reached an equilibrium that could eventually push more publishers onto their platform and have them maintain consumer market share only puts them in a position where they have everything to lose and nothing to gain.
A 100% secure gaming system with awesome gr
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I always thought PS3 titles were decent with their DRM. It's there, but most of it works pretty passively behind the scenes and I don't have too deal with it. I think people are turning away from troublesome DRM that makes legitimate copies hard to play (like EA and Blizzard requiring constant connection to a server). If I put a PS3 game into my PS3, it just works. That functionality is really attractive.
If their DRM starts to get too nutty then I can see the situation you describe developing. I've ne
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Some of the PS3 titles are already shipping with that sort of DRM though, X360 titles as well.
Basically though, a lot of these folks don't realize that people want their modern consoles to play old games, and theres a good sized market that want to run NES/SNES etc emulators, I happen to be one of them. Obviously not everyone is going to be a part of this market, but you lose that market when the system is as locked down as the PS3 and you lose any word of mouth and get some negative word of mouth advertisi
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What will the industry learn? That it can't stop a few pirates who weren't buying the games anyway, but they can scare the general public into not breaking the law?
You guys always act like this sort of shit kills companies but you utterly miss the fact that 99.9999% of the population doesn't give a flying fuck about nerd rage against the machine.
From your perspective, Sony lost. From their perspective, they won.
As long as it stays a relatively low occurrence crime committed by a tiny select few of the pop
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I'm not really limiting my options, I haven't purchased a Sony product since my PS2 years ago for multiple reasons, not just this sort of thing.
I realize that Sony thinks they won, but they really haven't. They've lost money on the console and whatever you may think about the "slashdot rage" it will translate into more negative PR and more lost sales when they really really need to make their platform more popular, not less.
They've already lost a small fortune on the PS3 though so you're probably right and
iTunes and Palm Pre (Score:4, Interesting)
Now this article proves that a USB device under control of an attacker is a possible attack vector. Which means that Apple was quite right, for security reasons, to refuse connection to dodgy devices. Of course this attack is slightly different; seems they first attacked the USB system software itself by plugging in intentionally broken USB devices, but it is quite conceivable that iTunes could be attacked by a USB device pretending to be an iPod (presumably anything that doesn't pretend to be an iPod, like the broken USB devices in this attack, would never make it to the iTunes software).
Re:iTunes and Palm Pre (Score:5, Informative)
Palm 'gave up' because the USB peeps told them to quit using Apple's IDs, which is against regulations - in response to Palm saying Apple were abusing the USB conformation specs by using portions of it as an access rights mechanism. There's no technical reason Palm couldn't have added whatever Apple ended up checking next to their device and had seamless sync continuing with iTunes; the game of cat & mouse would have left ever-fewer options with ultimately Palm as the winner. But that win would come at the cost of being kicked out of the USB club and then they'd have bigger problems to worry about.
As for the rest of your post.. yes - that's why Company X is quite right to only accept Company X keyboards, mice and webcams, and Microsoft-approved external drives, printers, scanners, etc. to connect to their computers and/or interface with their software. You know.. for security reasons.
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As for the rest of your post.. yes - that's why Company X is quite right to only accept Company X keyboards, mice and webcams, and Microsoft-approved external drives, printers, scanners, etc. to connect to their computers and/or interface with their software. You know.. for security reasons.
That's not what Apple did. They only accepted devices that claimed to be Apple iPods when they were indeed Apple iPods. You would have a point if the Palm Pre claimed it was a Palm Pre and was rejected; it would be absolutely fine if Apple rejected any device that identifies itself as an Epson scanner, for example, but wasn't actually an Epson scanner. In the case of the iPod, Apple isn't selling music with DRM anymore, but I'm sure their old contracts are still intact that don't allow them to download DRM'
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Except that it is exactly what Apple did and does.
No - initially they merely accepted devices for iTunes built-in synching that claimed to be an iPod or iPhone (I'm not sure what the status of the iPad would be in all this).
It's only when Palm decided to make the Pre claim to be an iPod or iPhone (I believe it was an iPhone) that Apple added another check so that it had to be an -Apple- iPod
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Is there some USB rule against doing this in software? Say, creating a driver that shows the OS a USB-attached "iPod" that's actually a pass-through to an attached Palm? Same result, but the device no longer reports itself as an iPod.
Or, if that's frowned upon, make the driver be capable of pretending to be whatever the user wants it to be, and if the user happens to put in the code for an iPod that, after the release of this driver, is available on a dozen forums and how-to pages via a quick and obvious
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Er, "USB Device" is any device that uses a USB bus. It's not specific to USB Mass Storage devices...
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Too late, Sony (Score:5, Informative)
The device has already been reverse engineered [psx-scene.com]. Expect clones very soon from countries whose courts won't kneel before you.
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One Question (Score:2)
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over reacting (DRM in general)? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Why is it that I can own a M4 carbine upper with an 11 inch barrel and do not need a NFA short barrel tax stamp as long as it is not installed on a M4 lower, but it's 10 kinds of law violation to sell a dongle that can jailbreak some specific computer platform? This planet make no sense what's so ever. I am going back to my veal fattening pen and watch some sitcoms.
Actually the two examples might be better related than you expect... regardless, "copyright infringement" is easy to pull off, a federal crime and some corporations are tenaciously lobbying to protect their source of easy money. They perverse the law and the public perception of it.
Now the NFA is just bullshit, but as much as politicians preach gun laws to get the vote there's not nearly as much lobbying on the topic. I mean, plenty are talking about abolishing guns and others are talking about abolishing n
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You know the answer to that, it's called the "National Rifle Association".
Many geeks rant about freedom, but NRA members VOTE and won't hesitate to hammer the shit out of politicians who oppose them. THAT has worked for the NRA for more than one hundred years, and why I'm a life member.
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Because when you bought the gun parts, you didn't agree to use them in a specific way, as the owner dictates.
When you buy a Sony product, you do agree to play be the rules they dictate.
Theres nothing wrong with the planet or the laws, only the people walking on it who keep buying things they don't like.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think you're required to sign an agreement limiting your use of the hardware before purchasing a PS3.
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Hey, lucky you can own an M4 carbine. In my country (Australia, surprise surprise) you can't :(
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Cute, but that's it (Score:2)
The device seems impressive at a glance, particularly with the unbreakable vault that the PS3 has appeared to be, but it has little merit as an actual tool for breaking open the system and so far only seems to serve the purpose of copying games to play without the disk.
It's probably not even a stepping stone to a real hack. It does show that people are trying and this will certainly lead to a hack that doesn't involve buying something so the sources can't be eliminated with just a letter from an attorney.
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"The device seems impressive at a glance, particularly with the unbreakable vault that the PS3 has appeared to be, but it has little merit as an actual tool for breaking open the system and so far only seems to serve the purpose of copying games to play without the disk."
Once you're in factory repair mode, you can do ANYTHING you want. Load customized firmware, whatever.
Which means this is the next step to full unlocking of the PS3.
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Seriously? It always looks like this to me:
There are two groups of people, those who want to pirate, and those who want to develop/homebrew/tinker. There is some overlap between the two, but most of the technical skill is in the latter and most of the money willing to buy something from you is in the former, so long as you are cheaper than the total number of games they wish to pirate.
If the homebrew guys can do their thing uninterrupted, there's less development put towards making a modchip, but once one
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Good for the new so apple can't do this shit!
What does this mean in English?
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Wait, I thought we were talking about breaking my PS3 out of jail.
What are you guys talking about?
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