PSP Homebrew Scene Going Illegal With Custom Firmwares and Devhook ?

[TeamOverload]

This comes down to a debate we had at qj.net before of roms vs isos. I dont remember why, but they allow rom discussion as well, but not isos. They allow devhook which I agree with, since it is a huge breakthru and does so much more than isos.

[grit]

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 ..

Ditto. Agree 100%!

[-LO-LEADER1]

We are doing nothin wrong...if anything, sony should be rewarding us for our honor and boldness to resist all the illegal activities..lol
keep it up wraggster and the rest of the staff...brothers 4 life

[F9zDark]

Personally I think the whole ISO thing is rather stupid.

Are we not allowed to download music playing apps because they can play illegally downloaded music, much in the same way that they can play legally made backups of our cds?

I got the DevHook full version and using fastloaded, made an ISO dump of GTA:LCS so that I could finally play the damn game multiplayer with my friends on my 2 PSPs.

Sadly that didn't work out, since the ISO loads alot faster than the UMD and the game gets out of sync and disconnects. So I went out and shelled out another 40 dollars for another copy of GTA:LCS.

And what does that have to do with my point? This site is essentially alienating fans who would like to make legal backups of their games, throwing them in with the pirates who don't give a $#@!.

Thats just not right. Devhook shouldn't need to be 'made legal' for this site simply because it can load ISOs. The PSP by default can play music, whether its illegal or not, and no one seems to argue about banning music apps from here.

Lay off a bit with the ISO loading, if Sony really wanted to put a stop to it, they would have sued the makers of Fastload and Devhook into poverty. But Sony isn't going after the people who make homebrew; they are going after the people that make and distribute their game's ISOs.

Yes, maintain strict standards on ISO discussion, eliminate any posts giving links to ISO downloads or providing emails to which they can be accessed, and ban the members who do that. But don't censor homebrew because it has the capability of loading ISOs.


About custom firmware, there is nothing wrong with it, so long as the author WROTE ALL OF HIS/HER OWN CODE.

The instant that author becomes lazy and throws in a Sony file, then custom firmware is ILLEGAL.

[hempy]

You guys are dumb

Kaiser: Trolling warning added

[Wally]

Devhook emulates 2.71 which means we can play loco roco on 1.50 with the original UMD.

2.71 cant play homebrew.

If sony lets companies make their own UMDS for demos and stuff, we wouldnt really have this problem.

DS have very good games where most games on PSP are tasteless (We dont even have a proper crash bandicoot game yet, which i would buy happily)

Ds has Mario and tons of cool games which last. when sony bring out the PS1 emulator i guess they want people to buy the same game they already bought 10 years ago from an iTunes store type interface so why buy them again. Sony need to trust us.

[NoQuarter]

I totally understand dcemu's view their just trying to protect the site and the scene,this is very respectable so we should respect them.Piracy is like drugs push it down in one place it pops up ten other and I really don't think sony is in a financial position to procecute everybody involved in the scene so point is they will really have a hard time stopping the movement which is closley related to the open souce movement which is bringing about the closest thing any of us have ever seen to a true FREE MARKET!

[MicroNut]

Why complain about the inevitable?
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Before you know it
It will be gone
And the next best thing will replace it.

[tophead420]

exactly, you paid to own it, they did not give you rights to it, just to use it. This is similar to Microsoft's Windows. They did give it to you, you paid for it and they are letting you use it, its not yours, its just yours to use.....i kinda just countered your post, got any comebacks?

ok your totally retarded i should be able to do what i please with my psp its mine not sonys at least not anymore im the owner of it so if i wanna hack and mod it or he** through it into a brick wall i can and what are they gonna do about it nothing thats what its not there say so to tell me what to do with it becuz its mine when i bought it they lost there right to my psp and they cant tell me modding it or distrubuting any hacks and mods are bad becuz i dont distribute anything for profit and thats what really makes them mad using there work and changing it and then selling it to people thats when it gets to a bad point but i dont do that so theres my come back buddy LMAO but thats just my opinion on this subject

[ACID]

tophead420 i agree with you i bought it its mi psp and can do with it what i want sony cant forse me to upgrade or anything of that sort. Actually if we think about it we bought a 1.50 psp when it first came out with the idea that we where going to use it not have to keep upgrading it to satisfie sony.