It was a sony rep that made the offer over the hacking. And to answer the above question about "why would sony give incentive for someone to hack their system, that doesn't make sense", not to you. But lots of software companies give out such incentive to "prove" that their platform/software is "unhackable". If sony's 128bit encryption was so "super serial" then the pentagon (who's encryption is much larger) would be "super unhackable"... Yet it happens. The ps3 has been hacked as well, but the people that do/did it aren't doing it for notoriety, they are doing it because they want to cut corners, or say "I did that".
As for cheating, it wouldn't be nearly as hard as you guys seem to think to come out with a viable and amiable "cheating device" for the ps3 or 360. All the maker would have to do is supply sony with the initial boot code used by the disc(s), and wham... You dissenclude any system transmitting that code from being able to connect to the PSU servers. But the net is full of pompus uneducated idiots who like to tell all of you that these things aren't even options. Just like sony making a patch that allowed you to replace the in game music, with your own playlist, they absolutely could, easilly; or the people that say microsoft can't add an equalizer to the Zune because they didn't install and equalizer chip..... Equalizers in mp3 players are digital now days, not analog, (or "virtual" not "physical" just in case someone out there thinks they know the full spectrum of comp talk) they just don't want to do it. Just like they don't feel like writing a patch that would make the zune work their own formats and software, and sony doesn't feel like doing any of this. And they don't have to, because their consumers are sissies and pushovers that will stand up for their laziness, and applaud their stupidity.... Instead of boycotting, or banding together and demanding they be treated right for the money they paid over a crappy console.
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