Ooocoo and son is the correct answer.
Easily the most disturbing thing ever featured in a Nintendo product.
"this case might end up like the one in spain"
One only hopes.
"Modding your console is stealing."
No when you mod a console you're increasing your control over it.
And a console is made of metal and plastic, which are both a type of substance.
And since you own it you possess it.
That means you are in possession of a controlled substance.
So really modding your console is cocaine.
"You are effectively arguing that arms dealers are not committing crimes, because they are not the ones firing the guns, and the pistols and machineguns they sell could be used for "hunting"."
Um, you do realize that it is 100% legal to sell both pistols and machine guns, right?
http://www.eastcoastfirearm...
"Talk about straw men"
"i would go with the HD version, because it's... well... HD and ... most of all... i don't like the Wii controler (prefer gamepad or keyboard/mouse)."
For the record, Last Story supports the Classic Controller, and the Dolphin community will probably have the game running in HD shortly after release.
Now if only they could do something about the whole Moonspeak thing...
Nintendo. Come on. You're killing me, Smalls.
You are one of the wealthiest game companies on the entire planet.
If your translation team is currently incapable of performing the task at hand then either expand the team you have or
FUND.
ANOTHER.
TRANSLATION TEAM.
"Is Sony charging you, me, or any other people here that pirate Sony products?"
Sony isn't trying to charge you, me, or anyone else here with every crime under the sun, now, are they?
"You can just say you aren't doing something while you actively do it."
'Enabling' something and 'doing' something are different things. Seriously, do you not understand basic English?
"I ...
"I can easily see the appeal for what you've listed above, and a ton more besides. But there needs to be a balance. You have to realise that 90% of people who hear that the PS3 is "hacked" instantly think of pirated games."
First off, I appreciate the level-headed response. :-)
Second, I would agree that there needs to be a balance. Personally, I am in favor of instituting very harsh legal penalties for pirates. When Nintendo won i...
"How do you know George Hotz isn't a pirate."
Because if he were, Sony would literally be charging him with piracy, which they have not done in their very-public case against him?
"He knowingly supports piracy."
Nope. He knowingly supports modding. Huge difference.
"If you believe they have the right to modify that hardware to bypass other laws, made to protect the *seller* of the hardwar...
"sony's private keys. Note how i said sony's and not geohotz or anyone who feels they own those keys because they bought the device."
Um, the 'private key' is a number. You cannot own a number. Companies have tried *and failed* to use that argument, and the courts have rightfully called it out as the garbage that it is.
"If the key are owned by Sony, which the are. I don't see why geohotz should have em like they are hi...
"If a user is allowed to crack + publish the crack info without contest, then the "sell hardware cheap, make money from software" business model needs to change to "sell hardware for profit, make the user sign a contract with criminal consequences if they break it"."
It does not *need* to change to that. In fact, since the most significant effect of that would be to drive customers away en masse, that would probably be the most inefficient and ...
"You guys even know you could run standalone apps in Other OS feature?"
Even with Other OS, pretty much every Homebrew application I listed above was not possible on the system. Being able to use the PS3 as a makeshift PC is probably one of the *least* interesting parts of the hack.
"Where were FailOverfl0w and GeoHotz back in the day"
Working in the Wii and iPhone Homebrew communities, respectively. Both sytems were...
"Homebrew? Really? When you could run the same homebrew on a laptop?"
Please explain how I could use a laptop to play fan translations of PS3 games, play my PS3 games from an HDD to minimize load times, play region free PS1 games, play region free PS2 games, watch region free Bluray, or back up my PS3 boot software to make it functionally brick-proof.
"It's obvious why people want the PS3 hacked even if they won't admit it"
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Looks like I will be waiting a while to pick up mine. The launch line-up, price, and battery life are kind of unappealing at the moment.
"GOTY awards always go to a game with a decent story"
I don't know, didn't Mario Galaxy win a whole bunch of those a few years back?
That game didn't even have a story.
"(Japan)"
Yeah, rub it in, why don't you!
"I could have sworn that awhile ago..
Geo Hotz stated that he wouldn't try to hack the ps3 anymore."
Well, he actually did leave the PS3 scene for a long time.
But then in late December, a group of people from the iPhone and Wii modding communities found and posted information involving a massive hole in the PS3's master key encryption and how it could be used to derive the key itself, which Geohot promptly did -- and subsequen...
Good old Ar Tonelico.
To be fair, though, this is really nothing new.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Urgh, beating this game was one of the most unreasonable things the NES ever asked me to do. Finally kill the last boss? 'This was all an illusion by Satan! Play the whole game over, but harder!'
raaaaaaaaaaaage
"Region Locking is Awful"
Real talk.