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Sony is always willing to spread the love while I fully understand the desire and drive to reverse and break the security of closed platforms.. grandstanding ab

Sony is always willing to spread the love while I fully understand the desire and drive to reverse and break the security of closed platforms.. grandstanding about your success in a public way traceable to you seems really misguided... It would seem better to release and wait for the ashes to settle first no?

heretoo 16y ago
Should have leaked the keys through wikileaks .. harhar.. But seriously, the fail0verlflow guys had legitimate grounds to exploit the PS3. Sony had taken away OtherOS, effectively crippling the product they had purchased, which was advertised as offering this feature. Imagine instead, what would happen if Sony had taken away the ability to play games?..
- loire280 16y ago
  Then Sony's console business would go bankrupt? But seriously, except for scientific computing, the PS3 was a terrible Linux system, especially for the price. Is this really about restoring functionality, or is it just punishment?
  - honeycrisp 16y ago
    It can't be both?
    - Manfred 16y ago
      Occam says, "noooo."
  - sp332 16y ago
    It's also about homebrew. I think PS3 homebrew games launched from the XMB and run under Game OS could be very cool.
  - terrym 16y ago
    Since it involved a group of people doing it, you can't really know what the true motivation behind it was -- but I think removing the otherOS functionality simultaneously gave the movement behind this 2 things: 1) Motivation, attention, and energy (more people hearing about their efforts, offering their help, more passionately) 2) An area to focus their energy on (jailbreaking, or restoring access to homebrew/otheros as a goal) Another thing to consider is that as far as I know, you should in theory be able to run the system at it's full capacity with the latest hack, whereas anything running on otheros was crippled by default.
  - arohner 16y ago
    The PS3 is now viable as a new host platform for XMBC (XBox Media Center). >Then Sony's console business would go bankrupt? The Music and Movie industries continue to stay in business even in the face of piracy. Wake me up when PS3 pirating comes close to the level of Napster. I'm not justifying piracy, just saying that Sony should be more worried about their real competitors.
    - ellisd 16y ago
      "XMBC (XBox Media Center)" That was my first thought when I read the news of the self-signed code running. I seriously cannot stop reminiscing about the glory days of XBOX1 and XBMC bringing jaw dropping awesomeness to the living room. The PS3 media playback although working perfectly in most SD video using PS3 Media Server, the transcoded DNLA streaming crap for some reason cannot handle fast forwarding / rewind or scene selection. We're talking 1080p playing from a i7 Extreme workstation + gigabit network. XBMC with HD support and Samba access would most likely playback perfectly on a PS3 homebrew build. Guess it's time to fork git://xbmc.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/xbmc/xbmc but I'd almost prefer to take a wait and see approach with Sony's first salvo against custom firmware users.
  - chopsueyar 16y ago
    My suggesting punishment is a possible motivation, you are vindicating Sony's position.

heretoo 16y ago

Should have leaked the keys through wikileaks .. harhar.. But seriously, the fail0verlflow guys had legitimate grounds to exploit the PS3. Sony had taken away OtherOS, effectively crippling the product they had purchased, which was advertised as offering this feature. Imagine instead, what would happen if Sony had taken away the ability to play games?..

loire280 16y ago
Then Sony's console business would go bankrupt? But seriously, except for scientific computing, the PS3 was a terrible Linux system, especially for the price. Is this really about restoring functionality, or is it just punishment?
- honeycrisp 16y ago
  It can't be both?
  - Manfred 16y ago
    Occam says, "noooo."
- sp332 16y ago
  It's also about homebrew. I think PS3 homebrew games launched from the XMB and run under Game OS could be very cool.
- terrym 16y ago
  Since it involved a group of people doing it, you can't really know what the true motivation behind it was -- but I think removing the otherOS functionality simultaneously gave the movement behind this 2 things: 1) Motivation, attention, and energy (more people hearing about their efforts, offering their help, more passionately) 2) An area to focus their energy on (jailbreaking, or restoring access to homebrew/otheros as a goal) Another thing to consider is that as far as I know, you should in theory be able to run the system at it's full capacity with the latest hack, whereas anything running on otheros was crippled by default.
- arohner 16y ago
  The PS3 is now viable as a new host platform for XMBC (XBox Media Center). >Then Sony's console business would go bankrupt? The Music and Movie industries continue to stay in business even in the face of piracy. Wake me up when PS3 pirating comes close to the level of Napster. I'm not justifying piracy, just saying that Sony should be more worried about their real competitors.
  - ellisd 16y ago
    "XMBC (XBox Media Center)" That was my first thought when I read the news of the self-signed code running. I seriously cannot stop reminiscing about the glory days of XBOX1 and XBMC bringing jaw dropping awesomeness to the living room. The PS3 media playback although working perfectly in most SD video using PS3 Media Server, the transcoded DNLA streaming crap for some reason cannot handle fast forwarding / rewind or scene selection. We're talking 1080p playing from a i7 Extreme workstation + gigabit network. XBMC with HD support and Samba access would most likely playback perfectly on a PS3 homebrew build. Guess it's time to fork git://xbmc.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/xbmc/xbmc but I'd almost prefer to take a wait and see approach with Sony's first salvo against custom firmware users.
- chopsueyar 16y ago
  My suggesting punishment is a possible motivation, you are vindicating Sony's position.