PSN Stopping PSPs with Custom Firmware?

[Apoklepz]

Hmmmm...let's see how smart SONY really is having done this.

PROS (for them):
- Less hacker friendly people entering the store and possibly stealing stuff :$ ...I really don't know about this one, I mean my PSP can do almost anything, it even brings me ice cold Cokes on ocassion...but really?

- People with hacked PSP's will actually let go tons of homebrew apps/emulators and ISOs to get back into buying official stuff from SONY...not in a million years.

CONS
- Piracy will improve now thanks to people who are smarter than SONY and have 2 or more PSPs...1 bearing official firmware of course...it will be a tad harder for pirates to obtain stuff now, but the more merrier and worth it, just to **** SONY's corporate money grubbing ass once again....Bend over and say Ahhhhh.

- PSP Go isn't looking so desirable now that you've deprived your target consumer audience (teens and young adults looking for a broader library of games and entertainment media than SONY's PSP can offer...that's why they come to homebrew in the first place :P DUH!) of it's purchase rights, is it SONY?

It's just so funny how SONY fails time and time again...but yet they think they are so darn smart.

[midnitdragoon]

this is a good direction for the future of psp. piracy as it is now wont change in terms of our community(it wont grow) but it will grow a lot slower. Therefore, there will be more people with ofw. Thats a good thing.

Hopefully this keeps up, and if i really want to play online... then ill go on my wifi max, no big deal. psn wont be missed by me.

[openboxfilms]

Lol, are you being sarcastic? Piracy's going to spread faster now because we're not even able to buy games legally. Sony's probably laughing at us right now, but there the one's being swindled.

[D.S.Darkness]

Ok, the way i see this is like in previous posts, sony is not blocking custom firmware per say but they are making it so only the most recent firmware can connect, and since custom firmware lags behind on releases, it essentially blocked it. BUT, i believe this is indeed a horrible move on sony's part because many ppl with custom firmware Do infact Buy PSP games from the PSN. I can only see this increasing piracy :/