PSP Homebrew Scene Going Illegal With Custom Firmwares and Devhook ?

The legality of homebrew for PSP, or emulators in general has been a widely debated issue and I don't think it will ever be resolved.

Of corse, emulators are developed legally from a coders bare hands but the intention of said program is to run illegal material (with some exceptions). Now we are in the era of full ISO's for games on PSP (which I strongly DISAGREE with). Then we get into Custom Firmwares which are in essence, streamlined exclusively to play illegal material such as ISO's which IS wrong. So I believe as long as it is kept legal (ie; DevHook UMD) there should be no problems or random suing ;)

DCEmu FOREVER!!!

...we should have all just supported gp2x from the start...

Well we also have to remember the reason for most custom firmwares and downgraders and etc is that Sony "tricked" us into upgrading our firmware int he first place. And not only that, but the ones who were lucky enought o be informed what exactly upgrading your firmware entitled, were denied special features. Windows updates pretty much daily, but we still ahve the option to choose which updates we want.

wtf sony is slowly starting to piss me off and why you may ask becuz there getting all pissed off over bs that they shouldnt now some of the things i agree with like certain devhooks that load isos i can see and now i know isos a totally illegal and people should not be putting them on the net for download thats who sony needs to be going after not the homebrew developers they arent doing anything bad that but the firmware i dont get it why get all pissed for some one hosting a download of there fw i mean come on be real now i shuold be able to do what ever i please with my psp no matter what it is i spent the 250 bucks for the mother ****** now its mine sony so get over it imma hack and mod the shiz out of it becuz i own it now its nothing to get pissed over and as far as sony frowning about homebrew and saying it lowering sells of there games not really becuz most of the people i know dont have a clue about homebrew and what it is and i know people that do use homebrew still buy UMD games i know i do at least when i got the money and as a matter of fact im getting a new one next week now sony should chill out the reason sells are dropping is be cuz of price of games and hardware i mean 50 busks for a tiny ass disk that has a fualty bs casing u know what im talking about i know a few of you have had a umd break like the casing fall apart becuz its a cheap 2 doller piece of shi* they need a 2piece casing on umds not one thats 4 pieces(the 2 clear pieces and the 2 white ones) it should be fixed thats 1 reason i think why people dont buy a lot og umds well those are my thought on this and i know i got a lil off topic but im sorry im tired of sonys bullsh** lol and o yeah somy give us anther fw update so it can be hacked and then another becuz these exellent hackers will keep on hacking them so all igot to say to sony is f*** u sony F*** U :p

If someone made 100% original software, Sony can't sue you for writing it or using it unless it does something illegal. But does it? No. However, if it uses some code from other FW's, then that's illegal.

As for DevHook that loads ISO's, that's not illegal too. DevHook is legal both versions because it's just loading an ISO. It is not creating an ISO or making an image. I know that everyone is against it here (I don't like ISO's either), but that doesn't mean it's illegal. If it was illegal, then that would mean that all of our emulators are illegal, even if they run old games. It would mean that ePSXe (PC PSX emulator) and many other things are illegal.

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4 legs good, 2 legs bad
rom good, iso bad

how will you feel when Nintendo start charging for theirs and Segas back catalogue?

personaly I couldnt care less about what these companies think they can tell you what you can and can't do..


Just because THEY say it's illegal doesnt make it so. it comes down to this.


When you buy a UMD, or a CD, or ANY kind of media, you may be led to belive that you're actually purchasing the content contained within, however the reality of it is that you're buying the PLASTIC DISC which the desired media is embedded upon. nothing more, JUST a piece of plastic.

So then you can make the statment that you're buying a container and being enticed to do so with alluring content contained within. But what if the containers themselves become obsolete? the fact of the matter is that I don't NEED a UMD to play PSP games. Oops sorry Sony! guess you wont make as much money as you originaly decided to. OH WELL! Personaly I DON'T care because I DON'T own stock in SONY, EA GAMES, or any of the related companies that are currently experiencing revenue loss as a result of the rampant piracy that's going around these days.


nor do I give a shit about anyone who works for sony, ANY of its affiliates, the related stockholders, the people who work for the distributors, What it comes DOWN to is that I DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT ME.


Sorry Sony, Sorry stockholders, sorry employees.


but I'm ESPECIALLY sorry for all the douchebags that seem to think its their responsibility to defend these people in exchange for NOTHING. "Put down ISOs now", "Piracy is bad and keeps programmers from making money", "The PSP is going to turn into another dreamcast and die" YOU people are the most pathetic, considering how NONE of the afforementioned industry people would help YOU if you were dying in the street in front of them.



so think about that.

As i have said before, devhook and custom firmwares are not illegal or else sony would be shutting down the sites hosting it.

Custom firmware just contains code that adds functionality to your PSP (in simple terms: it adds a module). None of the original sony firmware files are distributed / modified.

Devhook is just another hb program that can load isos / 2.x umds, you can do illegal things with it, but the code itself is not illegal. Its all up to the user. Its same thing with emulators ..