Sonys official line is undoubtedly anti-homebrew but there must be an element within the company who feel pride in creating a machine thats being used in ways they hadnt intended.
As for the exploits, I do wonder if there was someone there who knew about it but chose to leave it there.
On another note, how was the GTA exploit really discovered, surely some insider info?
For goodness sake, the 1.0's ran unsigned code!!
What does that say?
Yarozee,PS2 linux and PSP running unsigned code,there's the evidence.
gp2x runs all homebrew, including emulators, and they arent being sued by anyone....
@kando:
Although there are some issues over the GPL with that company.Another case of not releasing source :(Don't know if they have taken care of this yet though.
I also think it is part of sony's plan to create an incentive to make homebrew users buy a second psp by increasing the security drastically when the PS1 emu and PS3 are released.
They stand to lose some money if people don't buy those reissued PS1 downloads
I wished Sony would give up trying to destroy homebrew. The updates they release with all those "security patches" are no good to anyone -unless someone goes around the beat and decrypts the package so that we can emulate it using Device Hook.
Let's see what happens next when firmware version 3.0 is released.
most people would never buy a second psp, they would just stick with their homebrew one. I wouldn't shell out another 200 bucks, but that's me. anyway, eventually when the psp dies out, they'll have homebrew for frekin everything, and who'll be laughing then?XD
Alot of people will actually buy second psps,I've actually considered it.
but if those ps1 downloads are anywhere over 5 bucks nobody is gonna buy em, they gonna buy the game on ebay or at eb-games or funcoland and just rip it :/
how much money can they really make off them?
All you have to look at is what one of the major uses for homebrew is, and you get why Sony seems anti homebrew.
While ISO's are continuing to being used, Sony will consider homebrew a threat. Thats what it comes down to in my eyes.
Cloudy
i think sony's using the homebrew scene as a backup.... until the psp can hold itself....until than, their gonna keep making updates, and when they do finish making updates...i'm sure homebrew will be allowed....than again i could be wrong.