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Because look how popular it is.

NGU has had thousands of new members sign up recently, and NGU has made over a thousand dollars worth of donations in SIX DAYS.

There were 1697 users on yesterday.

This is all because of the CFW.

And that's JUST NGU, think of the people on other sites, the ones who got it through their friends etc. and it's not much of an overstatement to say that soon 10% of ALL PS3 users that have PSN will have the CFW.

Sony is in direct competition with Microsoft, especially with the release of Kinect and PS Move.

Do you REALLY think Sony can afford to lose 10% of their consumers right now?

UPDATE: So a lot of people are bringing up the whole "Piracy" thing...

Well, most of the people with the CFW only want it for MW2 lobbies, so that means that a very few percent of the people who get the CFW will use it for piracy.

On top of this, NOBODY has edited the lv2 and the kernel to allow the Backup Manager to be used, and chances are nobody is gonna be bothered to do it because nearly EVERYONE on this site just leeches.

Then theres the few people who will try, but won't be able to do it...

And then there's the odd couple who will try AND be able to...

Odds are if those few people manage to do that, and get the Backup Manager on PS3, they WON'T release it, why? Because although Sony most likely CAN'T patch the firmware, they CAN block the MD5 hash of the programs, and set a function to automatically IP ban any user running a program with that MD5 hash while on PSN. If they widely release it, there's more chance that Sony will introduce a check for that MD5 hash.

With that in mind, that means anyone going on PSN while running the Backup Manager CAN be banned, which would stop most people from using it.

Sony will do evrything they can to stop us if its possible they will do it mostly because it will lead to piracy and sony doesnt like us having full access to a system we payed for. And they wouldnt be losing money if they dropped the ban hammer we already bought the PS3 what do they care and if anything it will make them more money because if we cant find away to unban ourselves alot of people would go out and buy a new system. Supposedly the exploit that failOverflow found is unpatchable through software so lets just hope thats true

:black: whaat is CFW :black:

It's a custom FirmWare that allows you do more than official, from Sony.



According to the law, you can do WHATEVER you want with the thing you bought. It belongs to you and you can hack it, smash it, burn it etc. and Sony has no right to tell you to don't do it. All they can is to prevent people from discovering new ways of hacking by releasing new FW updates. They will not ban for using CFW.

Yes.

Think, how much they will lose in games etc when no one buys anything, everyone just hacks for free.

Of course they will ban as much as possible

All Sony need to do is patch the PSN servers to double-check that the game is being booted from disc and not HDD, then NOBODY with pirated games will be able to use them online, which will deter a lot of people...

10% amm no
thats not 10%
think of how many people that want to host CL's on mw2 and think of the people that just want to JB for homebrew.
i am against piracy to with geohotz but id say its around 22% of the community would try.

but that make's PSN worried and sony could go in real bother i see but its thier fault for putting the code in an obvious spot(just saying)

They will ban, just not everyone. I think they will ban people who pirate the psn content ect.

If i ever downloaded free games I would only ever play them offline.

It was to secure their product = very smart

Psh you dont know how marketing works?
Backups means no more buying. Which means no more game-making. Which means no more contracts between lets say EA and PS. And more. CFW will ruin them, when it supports backups.