Homebrew a true utopian society?

[grin.ch]

The proof is out there, Sony discovered commercial software imbedded in a certain firmware emulation application and issued a cease and desist order to its respective developer.

BOOSTER was NOT given a cease and desist order.

The modules that are created when you run the firmware installer are extracted from the EBOOT.PBP, it is illegal to share these files. Some no-name person uploaded a copy of devhook to the site with those files included, thus - the site admin was given a cease and desist order.

but it was NOT because of devhook, and BOOSTER was not harmed. Devhook contains no illegal code.

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This is true

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This IS True. Booster has been very smart about his releases.

[fire master]

I think that the homebrew scene is the best and will stay that way,but if Sony,Nintendo and Microsoft keep on trying to block homebrew and destroy it many people would be devistated. I could also say that the three major companys who block homebrew actually play it. Also I dont like people who steal ISO's because it is against the law and I don't go against the law. I think this was a goood read and will affect many people.

[vettacossx]

The proof is out there, Sony discovered commercial software imbedded in a certain firmware emulation application and issued a cease and desist order to its respective developer.

BOOSTER was NOT given a cease and desist order.

The modules that are created when you run the firmware installer are extracted from the EBOOT.PBP, it is illegal to share these files. Some no-name person uploaded a copy of devhook to the site with those files included, thus - the site admin was given a cease and desist order.

but it was NOT because of devhook, and BOOSTER was not harmed. Devhook contains no illegal code.

SO PDSP HACKS GOT A CEASE AND DESIST NOT BOOSTER??? HMMMMM GETTING HARD TO SEPPERATE FACT FROM FICTION!!!!! A THIN LINE INDEED!!!

Well you made a simpsons turrican mod thats why i used turrican as an example before, last year (or the one before) matt groening's legal people where threatening simsons fan site's with legal action because of the content (these case's was concerning sound files no bigger than 350k and sprite rips/animated screen caps).

ok first THAT WAS NOT A DIRECT SPRITE RIP....MORE THAN THAT IT WASNT RIPPED FROM ANYTHING!!! ....LMAO>...you see vetta has been doing some research.....i even considered STOPPING my mods if it turned out it could efect my fav. psp site....so i wrote to a few moderators seeking some sort of CLEARER explination......after a day on google what ive found is this ......THE FACT IS ALL BUT MY DBZ MODS were ALL MADE BY HAND IN MSPAINT AND OTHER VARIOUS APPS microsoft photo edditor....ect...AND WERE NOT RIPS OF ANYONES SPRITES BUT ORRIGINALS .....FURTHER MORE.... the DBZ sprites that i used were not FROM A GAME but i did however use a PICTURE from the oficial DBZ SITE to make the UPPER HALF of goku ss4 as it seemed nearly impossible to desighn him in time for release.....but you can bet .....now that i FULLY understand my rights ...AND SHADOW PROPHET has told me that my mods are PERFECTLY LEGAL FANBREW GENRE MODS .......you can bet im gonna jump back into my fav hobby modding our fav homebrew....and doing what JMV does.....and promise ayou all in the begining....TO OFFER REPLAY VALUE BY REQUEST to the BEST of THE BEST homebrew!
sorry for the panic guiys....JMV just wants to stay legit and would not ever take the chance of HURTING DCemu psp-news in ANYWAY...

[Xiaopang]

are there countrys wehre piracy is legal? i doubt so

yeah, china has no copyright laws

[aleborri]

First I haven't read all the pages on this thread so excuse me if what I may say is already mentioned somewhere.

First, interesting, well written article, Shadowprophet, anything that's food for thought and exposed this clearly is always a nice read.

But I can't agree with you on several aspects. First, I understand a utopian society as a society that exists in perfect balance, and obviously a homebrew society as you describe is imperfect because income is not based in homebrew productivity. A perfect homebrew society would have to be able to generate income through homebrew itself.

Also, in terms of ISOs, warez and copyright material, you're being too candid at best, or hypocritical at worst. You're obviously against ISO loaders, but I have a legal copy of all of the ISOs I load, however I have 1) At least in my country, the right to have a backup of any software I purchase 2) The convenience of being able to carry many games in my MS without the annoyance of carrying all the UMDs, or they getting damaged on the way, plus better performance on reading speed and the ability to overclock the machine itself.

On the other hand, 95% of PSP homebrew are emulators, which emulate systems that many don't own (CPS2 board anyone) and of course games that you don't own either, thus morally I feel less legitimate to play emulators than ISOs.

Basically, it seems that the morality under your words is that it's bad to use warez applications as far as they can damage the scene as a whole, the emulation sites and the developers and users themselves, but much of the perfection under the homebrew scene you care for and talk about does attack private property, however the difference is that the owners of that property won't give "cease and desist" orders, thus I see it, as mentioned, overall as either candid or hypocritical position.