Comments on: Sony vs The Hackers

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:19:38 +0000

Yeah sure you are running Windows XP on your PSP…YOU DICKHEAD!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:35:03 +0000

“I don’t think I’ll be buying anything from Sony again till they become more user friendly and less greedy” that’s kind of selfish and mean to say, if Sony makes a console to play games with, and add’s a function to use firmwire and surf the net, i think you should respect that.. i personally think that the menu and stuff in psp is very user friendly (easy to use)

Allthough, the console has too much machine power to be wasting on only games that costs so much, i prefer to hack it. I am a hacker myself, and i’m running PSP with windows XP and all the warez that you can imagine.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:03:23 +0000

I absolutely agree! I’m against piracy (because of the developers /artists and very creative people that have worked so hard on some of the content) but I’m for creativity without limitations - Nokia allows people to download their SDK’s for free, Microsoft (and I’m not saying they’re perfect - never did bring the XBOX to SA) gives away their .NET compilers and documentation for free (only pay for the IDE and extras) - so why can’t Sony do the same - even sell a set of development tools geared for the hobbyist developers?

Well I have a PSP - not for the games but more for the ability to run my own (and other peoples) applications. Look at how quickly they’ve figured out how to create applications WITHOUT Sony’s help - this obviously means that some very clever and dedicated people out there that will stop at nothing to get exactly what they want - which is what we want - we the people!

Hope that wasn’t too corny!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:43:10 +0000

I love my PSP. I paid out my nose for it. I also paid a small fortune for my PS2 ($250) which I had expected to take full advantage of the Harddrive capabilities and other features wich were possible but left me hanging. What was the usb port for again? How about the firewire port? ($20 Firewire cord) It seems to me it also came with a limitted life span.(3 yrs) Every one I know who had puchased a PS2 had it Die on them after 3 yrs of use. I also spent a lot of money on a Memory Stick($150). My PSP ($300) should have came with a micro drive instead of a slot for a MS. I hate the idea that they spent so much energy and time to ensure that I can only purchase there proprietary UMD in which games were stored on. (All Games purchased $1200. PS2 games now useless $1000) As far as I’m concerned Sony has enough of my money. I don’t think I’ll be buying anything from Sony again till they become more user friendly and less greedy. I’m putting my foot down.
As far as I’m concerned they’re getting what they deserve.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:35:00 +0000

The suggestion you make in the last paragraph [”The game makers are purposely disabling the capabilities of the machine in order to hobble it, expecting you to pay the cost of making the machine, expecting you to refill the firmware for it to continue to work, (my guess is they expect you to purchase both internet and games) and it isn’t yours. Yeah, right. I don’t want one!] has a hauntingly familiar sound to it.

Oh, I know!!! MICROSOFT!!!!

MS’s cronies have learned their lessons well at Daddy Gates’ knee.

I am holding on to a fragile dream that someday soon governments will file anti-trust suits AND that other barristers will attack the way these leeches do business — they put the word “BUY” in large letters and urge you to “OWN THIS NOW!”

One cannot find more blatant cases of false advertising. You cannot BUY software, anymore (be it games or applications), nor can you OWN any of the stuff you “buy”.

This should be such a cut-and-dried case, I am surprised some enterprising young lawyer hasn’t decided to seek his fortune by soliciting consumer participants to join in a class action to seek monetary relief from these frauds!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:32:16 +0000

To all you hackers out there. Keep the fight a live and the good work up. We don’t want to be pushed around by companies like this. Once bought the product is ours to do with what we want.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:18:11 +0000

I’m sick of this assault on game console hackers. Mod chips wouldn’t be necessary if they wouldn’t put regional restrictions, licensed-only software usability, and similar lockouts into the systems. As game consoles become more and more powerful, someone’s going to port Linux to it and want to turn their PSP into a PDA, for example. If you buy a $200 portable computer system, why should you tolerate being forced to run a very limited set of programs on it?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:25:31 +0000

I know next to nothing about the newer game consoles. If I understand the article right, they require you to update the firmware in order for it to continue to be of use to you. Does anyone really want such a setup? I assume this means you have to have an internet connection to do so, otherwise some other method has to be used to do the data transfer.

If it is the internet that is used, this means if you don’t have internet the game box won’t continue to work. Your money paid for it but at some point if you don’t update the game player, your money is wasted. Consumerism to the max in the name of profit. Well, Sony can keep their little protection scheme as what you are paying for isn’t yours after you get it home. That’s an expensive rent cost. The machine to play the games, I am guessing the games run around 50 bucks each. One is never enough, for sure. Nope, sold on the idea I don’t want one, can’t use one, and am not going to rent one by purchase.

Whatta racket they got going here. The game player makers are purposely disabling the capabilities of the machine in order to hobble it, expecting you to pay the cost of making the machine, expecting you to refill the firmware for it to continue to work, (my guess is they expect you to purchase both internet and games) and it isn’t yours. Yeah, right. I don’t want one!