Sony Ban Homebrew Talk on Their Forums

[wraggster]

Sony on their official forums have decided to stop all homebrew discussion, heres a gander at whats said:

Homebrew applications void the warranty of the PSP®(PlayStation®Portable) system, and an official area to discuss such activities cannot be provided by SCEA. Any postings that are clearly homebrew-related, such as those providing instructions on downgrading firmware updates, will be removed from this board. This also includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

custom firmware
themes, applications, custom bootup animations/sounds, and other materials made available only with use of homebrew
programs that may be used to aid or facilitate copyright violations (such as Eboots, ripping software, decryption software)
debugging software
programs designed to emulate firmware
TIFF applications
programs designed to provide for modification of the PSP® code or firmware, or that would allow for any exploitation of the PSP® system firmware flashing software
applications designed to bypass PSP® system and game security features
emulators, ROMs, CSO, ISOs, or any other unauthorized copies of copyrighted material
software or hardware designed to aid or facilitate in cheating

Any posting found to be in violation of this policy is subject to an immediate deletion. Members who continue to violate this policy may be subject to an immediate ban from this community, or other disciplinary actions as determined by the community Administrators.

Im not surprised by this on their own forums but talk about killing off free speach.

Whats your views on this.?

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[cal360]

WOW sony are on a hating spee!!!! We must of realy annoyed them with Pandoras battery.

[Qmark]

Im not surprised by this on their own forums but talk about killing off free speach.

Whats your views on this.?

It's their board.
They can do whatever they want, really.

[wraggster]

yeah getting pissy arent they

pandora was the ultimate kick in the teeth

[wraggster]

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.

[cal360]

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.

Good point its been all over their forum for years, but with the release of Pandora mabe they're starting to realise we're unbeatable!!!!!!

[Sonicboy 101]

Haha, Sony are just being mardy.

[I xfire I]

using "homebrew" doesnt void the warrenty, so if u have an original 1.5 it doesnt matter, the problem is when you start downgrading and the like,

tbh sony hates anything that doesnt go their way.

[Qmark]

software or hardware designed to aid or facilitate in cheating

Note that this also covers not-really-psp-homebrew-at-all save file editors, as well as an eventual Pro Action Replay or Codebreaker.

[cal360]

This kind of remindes me of a war. The country that's lost usually withdraws and takes action against any traitors, to me it sounds a lot like they're giving up.