(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); What Do You Actually Own?
By uNReaL-x-TaLeNT

Well Let me Start This Thread With a Quick Question, Does Spending £10,000++ on a car mean you own it? [YES] Does Owning The Car Allow You To modify it as you wish? [YES] So why - after spending $250+ on a games console or $350 on The Latest iPhone//Blackberry Or Tablet?- can you not do anything you want with it?

"This Is War" declared hacker and blogger George Hotz, better known as "Geohot" when Sony won a legal ruling designed to prevent PlayStation 3 users opening up and adapting their consoles for additional uses Such as Homebrew Applications Etc.. with The Help of Hotz's computer code. - Sony says these uses include playing pirated software and being able to cheat when playing multiplayer games.

Hotz claims his code, known as the "metldr key", was released to allow enthusiasts to make their own games - known as "home-brew" software and that he did not release the keys to promote piracy In The Gaming Industry.

___________________________________________________________

But if people are adapting consoles they have paid for legally, what is the big deal?
And if this is such a problem, why are major manufacturers opening up their products to different types of uses?

Microsoft is opening up its Kinect motion-sensing device to PC developers and Sony has a similar "aspiration" for its Move controller.

While Microsoft is keen to stress that Kinect "has not been modified or hacked in any way", it wants to "make it easier for the community to explore new ideas". - The Kinect Has Infact Been Hacked To Work On The PS3 - I Will Attach A Video


So where do you stand when buying a Gaming console?

When you buy the hardware, you agree to a list of terms and conditions that - in effect - means you are licensing all the software from the manufacturer rather than owning it.




So what do the manufacturers want? A creative environment encouraging new ideas and applications for their devices or an absolute restriction on the uses for the hardware they provide?

It seems, so far at least, that the line is drawn when the modifications are anything that might be intended for anything more than personal use.

And certain critics of the big companies think that the barriers are in place to ring-fence profit.

What Are Your Thoughts On This? Should You Be Able To DO Whatever You Please With YOUR Console?

Kinect Working On PS3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QnWDRF9w7k

PSNetwork Is a Service Available To The User Of The Playstation.

Even Without Access To PSN You Can Still Modify Your PS3 To Enable You To Use Homebrew That You May Have Downloaded//Made.

I agree you own the console, but.... Doesnt mean you can ruin online or... Ruinother peoples playstation experience.
Legit players outnumber hackers like 1000 to 1. Its their priority to protect the majority of its customers which are the legit people.

We OWN the Console but on PSN its a Service FREE FROM THEM, so we have to accept their Terms of service