If our information has been stolen then they should slam Sony.
I'd say the same about any other company that didn't secure our personal information properly too.
The PSN still clearly wasn't secure even if the hackers hadn't attempted to break in.
The article's argument kind of misses the point.
My concern is that if personal details have been extracted from the PSN by a third party, something I don't think has been adequately confirmed or denied yet, then Sony's security on the PSN must have been just as fundamentally flawed as the encryption on the PS3 was. Makes me very wary of giving Sony my personal details or credit card information in the future. Hopefully they'll have significantly upgraded thei...
They'd get at least some more sales if it wasn't there. I'd really wanted to get Final Fight, but I'm not buying with that DRM crap.
I've no problem with them protecting the software, but when they appear to have violated consumer protection laws to do it that's another matter.
I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree. I'm all for throwing the book at pirates, but we shouldn't be punishing everyone else out there to achieve it. Sony removed advertised features from the PS3 and are currently facing legal action over it. I also fail to see why encryption keys should have legal protection or why I can't do whatever I want with some piece of hardware I've paid for. For comparison courts decided it's perfectly legal to jailbreak phone...
Compared to the first game it feels like a side-story. I wouldn't say it's bad, just mediocre. There are worse things you could spend time on.
If you read the court documents, Sony has yet to prove Geohot had a PSN account or agreed to any terms. Seems he hadn't even taken the manuals out of the plastic bag.
This is about free speech. They've sued GeoHot because he found the PS3's root encryption key and posted it on his site. When the same thing happened with DVD's CSS encryption back in the day and people just started printing it on T-shirts and referencing it in artwork.
To me gaming is barely recognizable from it's early roots. Speaking as someone in their mid 30s who started gaming in the early 80s, the idea that we could go from something like Defender to Mass Effect, or Jet Set Willy to Uncharted was just unimaginable at the time. I remember the first time I played games like Elite, Civilization, Chrono Trigger, Wolfenstein, Shenmue, games that lifted the bar. Each time I was simply amazed at what the developers had managed to do taking us to places w...
If they can run unsigned code at the CPU's supervisor level even without an OS present then the 3DS is essentially wide open for anything. You wouldn't need games or an OS to test it, you'd know it would work. Certainly wouldn't be so easy to find an exploit like that though.
If the hack is legitmate I'm inclined to think either Nintendo hasn't tried very hard to lock it down or these guys really knew what to look for. If the security is similar to the...
I buy all my DS games despite not having to. Some people download every game (literally even). Would they buy them otherwise? Some yes, some no. Certainly every download does not translate to a lost sale, and even some who buy a console purely for the piracy seem to occasionally buy games. That's even without touching on what influence people's income has on their purchasing habits. The reality is that the market is too complex for us to know for certain what the monetary effects are....
Sony has plenty of time to fix the PSP2, and after what happened to the PS3 I expect they'll be paying for good developers who actually understand encryption properly to make sure they get it right. They'll probably have security experts audit it too.
In essence that's why the PS3 got hacked. The people trying to break the system understood encryption theory better than those who created it. Using seeds that weren't random is a beginner's mistake.
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I don't want to see piracy on the 3DS, but I won't be losing any sleep if the hacks kill the region lock.
In my case at least Nintendo will end up getting more of my money if the region lock is gone.
Personally I don't really like achievements/trophies of any sort, but aside from a small amount of immersion breaking, SP achievements are very easy to ignore so I'm happy to see them remain for those who do enjoy them.
MP achievements though require some careful thought from the developers if for no reason other than the possibility they can ruin the experience for other players. Something like "Obtain a triple kill" as you describe is great, but something ...
When I downloaded a trailer for it from the Japanese PSN a while back I though it looked like a bit of fun, but couldn't imagine how they could fit it to Move controls. The damning reviews certainly indicate that they couldn't. But yeah, with a regular controller it may improve. On the whole the game still looks like a bit of a one trick pony though.
Saw one here in a local NZ store while on my lunch break. No demo units though and they looked to only have one box on display. Can't imagine that'll stay on the shelf very long.
@nycredude Sounds to me like you don't know any nerds. Like with anything there are those who just do it because they can. It may only be 0.01% of console owners. I'm just saying they exist. No more, no less.
But hey, I guess it destroys your whole argument if only 99.99% of the people who hack consoles are people pirating games rather than 100%?
@Non_sequitur I'm not a homebrew developer so I can't say why they do what they do. Certain tasks like highly parallel vector processing will be faster on the PS3's Cell processor than on a normal PC though. Some people just seem to enjoy writing code for unusual hardware.
I'm not saying the PS3 should be hackable just so people can write homebrew on it as you seem to be implying. There's nothing illegal or immoral about wanting to write some code for a de...
Hopefully you are. Depends on whether or not removing a CC number on the PSN also removed it from their database. Wish I'd done that too in hindsight.