Have You Noticed.

On visiting many PSP sites i keep noticing some ads that really do harm to the Homebrew Scene and worst of all most sites will struggle to do anything against them, the ads in question are those ones that offer PSP Download Services or Guides to Downgrading or even an App that has Emulators with Roms in.

It seems that Google being the almighty power it is cant control the advertisers that use its service, the amount of Rom ads and especially those PSP Download Services ads (although some lesser sites actually have those ads direct and not via Google.) do major harm to the PSP Scene, if they are allowing downloading of ISOs and Movies etc then they deserve to be shut down. If they are enticing you to pay for homebrew then you are being ripped off majorly. Any site that openly supports these paying serviices might as well be a warez site.

Isnt it about time Google sorted their act out

I see these ads all the time- just last night I was clicking an add on Fanjitas site and it kicked me to one of those places. I don't know how or why Google allows them to advertise through their service when downloading roms in general is questionable and ISOs are pretty cut and dry.

I don't understand how advertisement can really harm the psp homebrew scene. Any n00b with a computer access can find pirated material, most of them i'am sure don't even click the advertisement, they just go on google and search for the stuff they want. Selling of warez is bad and definetely should be shut down. But i don't think sites that don't host anything but only provide a medium for other's to share(p2p) can/could be shut down, besides when you got countries like france who have legalized p2p then who are we to impose are laws or moral values on others. Each individual know the risk of getting involved in piracy therefore the decision should be left to them.

besides iso have plagued psx, xbox, pc, I don't see the respective scene dying. In psp sony has just come up with a genious way to stop the problem at the kernel. No pun intended :D

Whilst I am not trying to cause a riot, but didn't you call a truce not long ago - or is this purely a case for the morality police.

its not aimed at PSPupdates, i know sites need to have ads to pay the bandwidth, but google dont need the money that badly

France has not legalized p2p lol On the contrary the new law will be repressive.

Google can't do anything about this crap, these sites with their webspace providers pay to have whatver they have on there site searchable using google and other search engines. Its like if searched "ass" on google and it came up with a donkey, i could say "hey google needs to get their act together because i should only be seeing pornography on the screen!!!"

reminds me of the conclusion / ending of "Lord of War"

you can report such links to google and they do remove them after a week or 2, from their service.

martin (our host) blocks many "bad" google ads from the site

I don't really object to the download and use of ISOs and I'll tell you why.


There are a lot of games I would not or could not have purchased, that I can now play because of the ISO loaders games like:

Star Soldier, Bleach, Bleach 2, Guilty GearXX, and others. Now if sony had thier way, I would never even know about these games, let alone have access, or regional access to them even if I could get one. NOT TO MENTION all the games I might have purchased, HATED once I got them home, and then been pissed of that I paid 50 bucks for afterward.

Now, I'll admit, I haven't purchased ANY UMDs after I got my loaders running, and a good collection of isos HOWEVER, I did buy 4, I ripped them, then returned them to electronics boutique, who then sold them at a profit again. So, the way I see it, EB got to profit off of 8 UMD sales, sony took home $$ from 4. this is in addition to the costs of the 2gig and 1 gig memory cards I bought. So please don't cry about how sony is losing money because of piracy, because theyre clearly doing well.

Anyone who has a 1.5 and a 1 or 2 gig card is missing out if they're not taking full advantage of Devhook, Fastloader, and UMDemulator 0.8c. Whether its to play your own legaly made ISOs or ones you downloaded off of a friend, or over the internet or whatever.

Now if someone is trying to charge money for that which should be free... well go to the store and look at a bottle of water and tell me what you think of that. BUYER BEWARE comes to mind somehow.. I'd charge someone 10 bucks to downgrade thier PSP. Just like some jerk would charge me a few hundred bucks to do work on my car. this is a service economy. if you have a friend thats willing to do it for free... DON'T pay. if you feel like paying, don't blame the guy charging. these users don't have to pay for anything. they choose to.


and those of you considering "telling" on others for what they're up to, DON'T.

it's none of your business. Go join the police force and stop real crimes of you're SOOO concerned about someones safety, because I assure you the stockholders and corporate officers over at Sony wouldn't even piss on your head if it was on fire.

K thanks