"they provide an ENTERTAINMENT SERVICE, not my daily drinking water or food." That is probably the most sensible statement about gaming, hacking, and business that I have heard in a long time. Unfortunately for most people it isn't like that. For sony and it's employees it is their jobs, for many people, gaming is so important how dare sony put any type of copy protection or encryption at all. They seem to think they have some unalienable right to the games.
That is really what I am against. I have seen far more good done by petitions and industry pressure than hacking and backdoor stuff. Take Bioshock for instance. When it was released it had an extremely strict DRM, and it wasn't hacking that got it loosened. It was legitimate customers and reviewers voicing their concerns.
When something is too far, and over the line like sonys securerom it is normal users and legal experts that will do more to get things rectified. Hackers will only get the company to tighten things down even further. Sure companies could realize that it is useless, but so far that hasn't happened. There is a differnce between standing up to goons and antagonizing them.
BTW hacking didn't kill the miggy, but it was one of the reasons many of the developers left, and many stated as much.
While I'm against piracy, I am on
NO WAY against hacking. And I am offended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If I purchase something I own it. If you want to dictate how I get to usr it don't sell it because once you have
I OWN IT.
That does mean I have the right to copy it or distribute it, but I'm going to use it as
I see fit.
And I'm all for seeing Sony take a hit, those a-holes installed rootkit software on my PC via their BMG/Sony music CDs
illegally.
Fuggum.
