BBC Reports on Sony's Key Fail, Interviews Hackers, Sony Declines to Comment

[HELLTICK]

But if they can figure out how to press silvers that will boot on STRAIGHT OFW, those will sell. Oh yes. And chances are, they will figure that out, including all the additional disc check stuff.

What you're talking about still involves modified firmware or a jailbreak...

Yeah, but who plays with discs anymore?

[HELLTICK]

This could mark the end of physical media on gaming consoles in the next gen era.
That come with a big disadvantage, for example my 6 yr old son likes to bring his game discs when we go visit other family members for use on their machine.

Losing this ability could destroy a consoles rep very quickly, they should tread lightly on that one.

[Phreaker47]

Yeah, but who plays with discs anymore?

Oh, only the 80-90% of the user base that more or less have not heard of a "jailbreak", nor would they ever get involved with "MFW" (Yes, KaK, it's catching on...heh).

But many of those people MAY hear about the possibility of ordering games for, say, $20 apiece?

[Romaap]

Jonathan Fildes fails at grammar, you should expect some decent grammar from a BBC reporter.

[muffin_skater]

I can not understand why some people write things like f**k you Sony and so on. Without Sony there would be no PS3 no PS2 no PSX and no PSP
Without Sony we must play Xbox

Sorry for my bad english

[cayspekko]

That looks like a Spartan 3 he used to hack his PS3. Good little FPGA.

[cayspekko]

I can not understand why some people write things like f**k you Sony and so on. Without Sony there would be no PS3 no PS2 no PSX and no PSP
Without Sony we must play Xbox

Sorry for my bad english

Without Sony, Sega would probably still be making consoles...

[HELLTICK]

Oh, only the 80-90% of the user base that more or less have not heard of a "jailbreak", nor would they ever get involved with "MFW" (Yes, KaK, it's catching on...heh).

But many of those people MAY hear about the possibility of ordering games for, say, $20 apiece?

Well if 80-90% want to risk sending their $20 offshore somewhere to obtain these silvers...they can go to town.

[Phreaker47]

Well if 80-90% want to risk sending their $20 offshore somewhere to obtain these silvers...they can go to town.

If they work, they will. They'll be on ebay and everywhere else... Sony will be struggling to snuff them all out.

I won't be buying those, but I'm just saying.

[Cloudfire]

I am on my way to become an computer engineer and i am seriously starting to consider becoming an antihacker just to bust assholes pirating games. I 100% understand people who want the possibility to use their hardware to whatever they fancy, but pirating games? No.

Pirates using the removal of OtherOS as an excuse for ripping Sony`s system apart and allowing piracy is so wrong. I wish the hackers like failoverflow could somehow hide vital parts of the system or help Sony patch it against piracy, but to think that it true what hackers say: we don`t support piracy. Maybe some have atleast some integrity and speaks the truth, but i am shure many does not.

And to all the selfish childish teenagers here who have "**** Sony" in their signatures. You are not tough, you are not smart, you are merely a blind sheep without skills following someone who knows their field.