I don't see how these viruses would be any more a problem any other server.
Seriously do think they can pack viruses into movie and picutre files? And that somehow they are going to pop out of the movie? No. The file will be decoded by the decoder, moved to GPU memory and then translated into the picture. How is that going to spread a virus? It would just look like junk on the screen.
If you are saying that users would upload viruses onto a server, once again I just don't see how that would do anything. They would still be only be used as media files, which means once they were decoded and displayed they would be junk.
True exploits come through allowing a remote computer to run code on yours, such as ActiveX, which is Microsofts fault in many web pages. Or trojan horses that are installed along with other programs, and then ran. Media files don't work like that.
Also about the Pr0n thing, even in the public space adult things could start happening. What happens when every 13 year old boy has this perfect female model he's made for him and his friends to cyber with? Seriously the immaturity of the target users may be what undoes Home.
Yeah its interesting that they keep talking of these great work arounds the developers could go through to get the PS3 to have great graphics... Why would developers want to jump through even more hoops? Why is everyone going with the unreal engine? Maybe they don't want to spend years optimizing. Yeah great theoretical power means nothing when none is willing to put up the time to figure it out.
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