How long before GeoHot has 'a fatal accident'?

[TheBilgeRat]

Meh.  This is Sonys way of seeming like they are against piracy.  I'm sure when they see the bottom line of consoles sold sweep past Xbox they'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

[TheBilgeRat]

When I saw your post I had to check when it was datedto see if this was a fanboy post from a couple years ago...it wasn't. Ps3 has been out for well over 3 years and is nowhere near "sweeping past the xbox". The xbox according to several websites (summed up nicely by wikopedia) has sold over 10 million units more than the ps3.  

Until recently sony was making more money on the ps2 than the ps3. I think the only ones "laughing all the way to the bank" is nintendo with over 76 million wii sold and actually making a profit on each one.

as for geohot I think he, and others are making a mistake unlocking stuff. This will only lead to more restrictions, and less functionality for all of us. If noone ever copied software (idealic dream admittedly) companies would have no reason to protect their investments in such restrictive ways.

since sony is losing money on ps3s to earn money on software, and someone cracks any of the protection on thier investment, what do think sonys response will be, or should be.

gee thanks geohot, you freaking retard.

No, I'm not really a fanboy-I went MS because I was an xbox user first, so it felt natural to go to the 360 (plus I was already an xbox live gold member).  I am just indifferent to the argument that hacking is bad.  The argument that standing up to proprietary goons just makes more proprietary goons is nonsense to me.  Standing up to these people causes them to innovate or die.  I could care less if sony fails or succeeds-- they provide an ENTERTAINMENT SERVICE, not my daily drinking water or food.  Pirates didnt kill the miggy - bad business decisions did.  Just like pirates won't kill Sony -- Sony refusing to innovate will kill Sony.  I think this has much less to do with piracy of games than it does with outside pressure from the MPAAs of the world who are freaked out that first HDMI was cracked and now the Blu-Ray encryption.  Blaming the nerds is a copout.

[TheBilgeRat]

Granted, I am definitely not in the "Whoohoo!  Free games!" camp (unless its EA :madashell:)  but I am enamored of the idea that once I buy my hardware that I can do with it what I will.  Hacking = OK.  Piracy = douchebaggery.  I have a few hacked items (PSP, Wii) and 100% of the reason I did so was to add functionality not present or disabled because of attempted railroading into paying for such functionality.