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Industry in general really has no control over any product once it leaves their facility. Besides, how will the manufacturer know that the user ISN’T modifying it short of following the wearer around, much less finding ANY clandestine tailor for that matter? And in then end, then what? Frivolous lawsuits for the sake of punishment by bankrupting the user? It’s a fundamental part of the fashion industry. In this case to make for a better fit or to customize the overall look and function. Janu11:17 like buying a costume and the manufacturer stating that the buyer is not allowed to modify it. You can see issues from Sony’s point of view and from Linux/FreeBSD consumers point of view as well.

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Or upgrade to later firmware revisions and loose OtherOS, but regain access to network play and access to play games released after the 1st of april 2009. You can stick on firmware 3.15 and have Linux/FreeBSD, play all standalone games released prior to the 1st of April 2009 and loose access to network gaming. Well Sony did not disable OtherOS really, just gave consumers a no real choice. Selling slims without OtherOS kickstarted the hacking to a new level, disabling OtherOS on previously sold PS3’s unleashed a tsunami of hacking. This practice was only going to increase, hence Sony disabled OtherOS on the Slim models. The US airforce and a few universities got cheap super clusters subsidised by Sony. Sony (and Microsoft) are selling the consoles below cost, recouping the difference on game licensing. The issue with renting a console, is that very few people would actually do that, consumers like to own things. But once “one buys a game console”, you own it, it is your physical property. Janu9:53 it was explicity rented at €/$50 a year then people would not have the right to modify it. Those willing to break the law must be willing to accept its consequences in order to effect change. The best part is when he compares the Anon movement with MLK’s civil rights efforts and how the Anon “movement” is nothing without an identity. In regards to the Anonymous reactions to Wikileaks – they were weak and uncoordinated, perpetrated by those too cowardly to show their identity because they’re denying rights to the rest of us by hacking public credit card sites. I’m not saying big business is right in this case, just fueling the discussion. I may spur some backlash about that, but I think to keep their business model afloat, console makers have to keep people from being able to play pirated games and using the console in ways that were not intended. I don’t think that because one buys a game console that they “own” the right to modify its contents. We are, as Herb Sutter suggested (see ), starting to live in a cyberpunk world.

This also ties in with the Anonymous reactions to what many saw as unfair decisions regarding Wikileaks: DOS attacks that in some cases were pretty effective. Business ethics are becoming more of a consideration in security. Second, many of those talented people aren’t motivated by potential illegal profits as much as they are restrained by ethical considerations. First, there’s a lot of security-cracking talent out there that isn’t really organized. The cracking was still illegal, but that community doesn’t generally much value obeying the law when that results in what is seen as an unjust outcome.

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This also removed most ethical restrictions: these people had to crack Sony security in order to get what they’d paid for and originally had, and they were reacting to what they saw as unethical behavior on Sony’s part. This caused a great deal of outrage around this small community. Sony offered no sympathy or compensation for this change.

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Sony then presented them with a choice: accept the patch and lose the ability to run Linux, or refuse it and lose the ability to play online and play new games.

The people most likely to have bought the PS/3 for its advertised abilities to play games and run Linux are the ones most able to crack the security. The Appatch that removed the OtherOS option seems to have spurred the cracking efforts.

Janu9:05 With a little more respect, they might have put the cracking off longer.