Originally posted by Pixie
Well think about it They spent years and millions making the PS3 and No one wants there product hacked to bits, Just Think if you where in a Billion pound company and your product got hacked you would be pissed Yes ? So you would try everything to fix it, Thats what Sony is doing
i wouldent go about threatening the customers or thowing my weight about it ether
Actually Piracy does very little to hurt the industry specially consoles and heres why
Most people dont know how to install a CFW and a BM, now out of those that do know will either download the games, Hire them or borrow from a friend
-Downloaded games most pirates will download anything have a look at it then never go back to it.. in most cases they would never have even thought about buying that game (sony didnt loose a sale here as they wouldnt have bought it in most cases - some are lost but its still a very small percentage.. much less then the over priced games in the first place cover for such piracy)
- Hired games - the copy has been bought 1 time .. only people that are going to miss money here are the video shops from rehires from the same person (but in the end probably make more money from people hiring more games they wouldnt have now they can be backed up)
- Borrowed from a friend.. same deal here 1 copy bought but instead now yer mate can have his original back quicker
- Buy and return method.. once agin sony gets the 1 sale then EB games makes the money back from selling pre-owned
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The main reason Sony would be going about it this way is because developers would pay a premium to Sony to cover copy protection makes developing games quicker and in some cases probably cheaper (many protection systems have very hefty licensing fee's)
now Sony would have a legal obligation to the developers to make sure the system is secure from piracy
the other reason is for online gaming hacks if the system is secure you dont need to develop Anti cheat within the game itself.. (again making it quicker and cheaper to develop) :dingding: