Sony: Use of LV0 Key PS3 Hack Will Get You Banned

[cats_Paw]

Wasent sony the company that lost so much personal data not long ago?
Well, beeing away from their servers seems like a good diea to me.
I dont play consoles thou, just PC, so i guess im not going to be affected by this at all.

 

[contrasia]

[citation][nom]bryonhowley[/nom]So what are you saying that Sony should not make a profit? How long do you think they would stay in business if they did not make a profit. Personally anyone caught using this should loose not only there rights to PSN but the hardware to. Sony need to push a update though that would simply brick the PS3 of anyone caught using it forcing them to send them in to be fixed. spectrewind no one was made a "victim" you had the option of not upgrading the firmware and keeping Linux on a game system that did NOT need Linux in the first place. The PS3 is a game system not a Linux machine get over it already.[/citation]

Actually due to the power of the GPU and the potential to crunch calculations at superfast speeds, plus the already builtin function to be able to daisychain and utilise each others resources to further boost the speed of those calculations, it tended to be used a lot for Research. I'm sure you heard of the program that you could get called Folding @ Home for a while, which of course was just one example. Dozens of PS3's use to get bought up for the capabilities that the PS3 offered to make a souped up supermachine. They still required access to the network and be allowed to upgrade the firmware in order to patch any security risks, since after all, nobody wants Research stolen.

Fair enough the PS3 wasn't intended for such a thing, but that's the benefit of having an OS like Linux on the hardware of your choice. It allows you to go beyond the original vision of the machine and turn it into a lot of useful things. These people use to buy the PS3's in bulk, but as mentioned they wouldn't buy games, so even though they were potentially driving between 25% - 35% of the PS3 sales (That's a number pulled out of nowhere btw, so completely unreliable, just my rough estimation), since Sony were selling them at a loss that actually meant they were losing even more.

Tons of people were made a "Victim", both Home users and business users alike. No new firmwares means open loopholes that become publically known once the firmwares that fix those issues are released. It's been "limited" to a game machine, but it could've been used for a heck of a lot more. Get over your limited one-tracked point of view.

 

[anononon]

So basically, If I NEVER use the PSN/ESN This shouldn't matter to me...

 

[clonazepam]

That's why I laugh every time I see the arguments over XB1 versus PS4 and their DRM promises. It's laughable. Sony's one firmware update away from erasing any of their promises and has the track record. To any of those still on that bandwagon, see you next year, after the holiday rush, and a healthy user-base that can't say 'no' to anything when it comes to games and their DLCs.