Originally posted by camacheiro
I'm a hard bastard and out of principle I won't be made to accept everything those idiots want.
I paid big bucks for my PS3 and I would like to consider it mine.
I'm definitely not arguing your point here, so please don't think that, but have you ever thought that Sony could make the same argument? They pay big bucks to maintain the PSN and they consider it theirs, and are doing this to protect their investment? No one can force you to upgrade, and if you do decide to stay you just cannot use their online service any longer. Essentially you're getting what you paid for, except now you have an additional choice; homebrew or PSN.
Without all the Call of Duty hacks which got way out of control we wouldn't be here today. This is what alerted Sony, and it is because of these complaints that they are taking such action. They are protecting their product (as in, PSN).
Do I agree with it? No. But I do understand it.