Has Sony Got Coders Running Scared?

[slayer2psp]

you will see devhook with 2.80 firmware support as soon as we need it. no 2.80 games are out yet so why no wait intill we need it. that way it will take sony longer to update this time and ruin the psp again and again with there damn updates

[NoQuarter]

Hopefully we can just skip that crappy 2.8 update,not to mention we don't need to give sony any more free security information.Plus I see some pretty bad security holes for endusers enabled with the release of 2.8,namely botnets.
I think the new modules were sony's way of getting around installing rootkits as these would surely be discovered as they were on their music cd's

[gamesquest1]

pretty sure sony know all the information they need......encrypt the files diffrently each time and were buggered untill they are unencrypted.......also wtf is with the psp modchip thought that was all amazing and fabulous and would work on any firmware .....errr i reckon they just wait for the homebrew scene to decrypt the files the lazy ba*tards.........i was hoping the modchip being released would help produce faster decryped firmwares looks like they basically leaches of the hombrews hard work....then come out with .....well we could have done it aswell

[NoQuarter]

I seriously doubt sony has all the security information they need,it's a one up game.As for the modchip it's just too risky,expensive and hard to install.I think sony are the one's who leach off homebrew.If everybody knew all the security information there would be no blackhat conference!
I think the ta-082 caused problems for the modchip as well,could be wrong about that though as I don't plan on getting one.

Faster decrytpted firmware is a blessing and a curse.

[SSaxdude]

I hate how Sony is trying to scare everyone to obey by their rules. Corporations are getting too much power and influence in today's world.

[NoQuarter]

Agreed SSaxdude,very much to the point.Our current economic model is broken and freedom is the only way to fix it

[SSaxdude]

Everyone who doesn't think corportations are power hungry, find out why they hate net neutrality.

[NoQuarter]

Dude, you are right on the mark!
If coorporations weren't allowed to copyright intellectual property there would be no piracy.

[gamesquest1]

i dont know what most peoples problems are i realise you dislike sony for being so agressive against homebrew but you have to realise they need people to buy there games not play other peoples.
also if they had no rights regarding there systems im pretty sure they wouldnt be arsed making a bloody psp for people to say i own it so ill illegally play all your games. if they had the right to say playing homebrew games was illegal then you could moan about it.

but as it stands face it anything they have paid to develop means they have an investment in it.
you dont moan when you pay extras such as vat on things .....well you do but face it it happes live with it, and try to get past security to play homebrew without going too far and breaking the law to do so.........or do i dont care do what you like just that sony dont like it and makes them more determand to stop hombrew

[Voltron]

I disargee gamesquest because:
after a certain amount of hardware consoles are produced the production costs drop.The company only loses money at first. As more people buy the console the company starts to turn a profit on it.IMHO.

You are exactly right. In business, this is called "economies of scale" which basically means the savings from manufacturing, marketing, or buying in large quantities.

With 20 million PSP's now shipped/sold worldwide, I doubt Sony is still taking a hit from hardware sales. Also, I just read recently that the PSP is number 4 on the list of top 10 tech gadgets being bought as "back to school" items from high-school / college students.

But out of 20 million PSP's does anyone know how many are used for homebrew? I'm willing to bet its less than a million. I wouldn't doubt if more and more people are using their PSP's for homebrew as time goes on and more people learn about it. Also, if ISO loading is hurting the PSP as much as some people think, and there were millions pirating away, Sony would no doubt be taking a serious hit and their wrath against homebrew would be 10-fold.

The best thing us fellow homebrewers can do to sustain the PSP homebrew craze is to keep generating buzz over it and introducing more and more people to PSP homebrew.

KxPloit, MPH downgrader, Fanjita & Ditlew, Dark_AleX, Booster and others have helped pave the way for MANY more people to enjoy homebrew. We owe them so much.