Sony Ban Homebrew Talk on Their Forums

[Basil Zero]

yeah im actually surprised they took so long to ban discussion of it, if you are updating firmware to stop homebrewers and hackers the last thing you do is have hundreds of topics about it.

actually i've always wondered why it took them so long to realize this and not do this earlier, considering the fact its homebrew(in which they pledged they were against) and still had discussion threads for months xD

[blaz3d]

i remember when 3.02 oe came out. the best pops conversion guide i found was there. sad day today

[JKKDARK]

Not very important, and all the homebrew stuff like downgraders is not good for them.

[hacksparrow]

i remember when 3.02 oe came out. the best pops conversion guide i found was there. sad day today

yeah serious, i found the best hex guide there too

[Veskgar]

A loss of homebrew enthusiasts at the official Sony boards just means a mass migration to other boards, including this one.

Yes. Its going to have more of the opposite impact on SONY I think. The more you tell people NO NO NO, CAN'T CAN'T CAN'T, the more it peaks their curiosity and they will find any way they can to learn more about it.

PSP homebrew has massive draw and this sort of thing only draws more people in.

People want their homebrew SONY! Telling them they can't have it and not offering any official alternatives is not the best way to go about fighting it.

[Sterist]

whichever agent took the time to put that list together prolly has a CFW. he's got extensive knowledge of every lil nook'n'cranny of the terming for PSP hacking, including obsolete (but better called "out dated") exploits such as TIFF

[Cokemusic]

Sony really didn't have a choice in the matter I think , limminting homebrew talk in the forums would have given the idea that they condoned it ( which they totaly do not)

Sony are well aware that they're killing about 50%-60% of the overall threads on their forum if they did actualy bother to look , I think with all the recent updates , the new PSP , pandora it was just the right time to pull the plug on that kinda talk.

The PSP has the biggest homebrew community in the history of console homebrew , it's easily accesibile , easily usable , readily availible and ever there are an ever increasing number of homebrew apps for this sweet little console.

[Joe88]

yeah im actually surprised they took so long to ban discussion of it, if you are updating firmware to stop homebrewers and hackers the last thing you do is have hundreds of topics about it.

yea
I think they knew about it the whole time
though as too why they decided to stop it now, maybe because of threats of the PSP slim 3.60 firmware and hardware being hacked....?

[dthpsc]

Speaking of killing free speech, wasn't it against the rules to speak of ISO's on this board? I'm by no means criticizing PSPEmulation, the greatest site when it comes to the PSP hands down, but let's not be hypocritical about it, shall we? That's not to mention if someone really wants to talk about homebrew they have the option to come to another board like this one, or the many others that are available... It's really not a big deal.

[cal360]

Speaking of killing free speech, wasn't it against the rules to speak of ISO's on this board? I'm by no means criticizing PSPEmulation, the greatest site when it comes to the PSP hands down, but let's not be hypocritical about it, shall we? That's not to mention if someone really wants to talk about homebrew they have the option to come to another board like this one, or the many others that are available... It's really not a big deal.

The ownly reason we don't talk about ISO' is that many people could use ISO programs for piracy which could end up with the site having a lawsuit for promoting it.