[QUOTE="ShimmerMan"][QUOTE="boostud"]
Love them or hate them, they are proving an important point. Sony is here because of people like us, without us they are nothing. But somewhere in the game, people forget that WE are their customer. They need to provide us with what we want. Somewhere along the road here people just sat back and let them not only charge us for everything, but also control what they are charging us for. Corporations in general have us cornered, and nobody has the courage to stand up to them. Although I'm a little ticked about the network being down....kudos Anonymous. We pay the bills, we should be able to do what we want when we purchase the hardware/software. I know I'm going to hear about 6,000 different arguments back on this, but you get the point. Its the principal of it all.
RoboDuckii
That's not how it works. Just because you bought a product of someone doesn't give you "rights" to influence their business. Lets bring it down to basics, lets pretend this is a medieval period and you go and buy a wonderfully made sword from a grand master blacksmith. What is the blacksmith selling you? A sword, and nothing else - he's not going to give you the blueprints to how it made the sword and he's not going to show you how to make it. Because that's not in his interests, he can't run a business like that. And Sony can't run a business by allowing people to do whatever they want with a product THEY designed and are trying to make a profit from.It's their machine, it's their design - they made it and produced it. You bought with the indication that you would use it for personal commercial use via purchasing software for it. They did not make it for you to hack to **** to do whatever you want with it. It's not your intellectual property, it's Sony's.
But in terms of TECHNOLOGY, technology it isnt like a sword product. You're always getting to get developers with intentions to modify, and thats what technology is about. Take ure sword example, what if that customer was a blacksmith? Could he modify his newly bought sword? He should be able to cos its his. Its like saying to someone, ill give u this canvas, now ill tell u what to paint on it. Stop thinking about normal products, think about it in terms of computing and technology, developers are always going to move it on and innovate, big technology firms should go back to basics of computing and stop hindering hackers, just for the money.Hindering hackers?
Now tell me. this technology being invented by companies through painstaking R&D "just for money". Without them these hackers would be hacking what? wood?
Hacking is a learning process and anyone who can do it should try it. But posting the information to the world when you know the end effect is to hurt the buttom-line of the manufacturers and the experience of other purchasers of the system is just a dangerous behaviour. Actions should be taken to dissuade such nonsense.
Remember these companies have to make some profit so you can have your PS4 in a few years. Geo Hotz will not invent a new hardware for you or will he create an API for developers to work on it.
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