http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CrEAzpuxc

I disagree, I personally think he was full of shit. He probably did hack it but didn’t make any special firmware and then got pissed when people were begging him after he promised them he would release something and making noise about showing Sony who is boss. Seems some people could replicate what he did with his youtube video through other means as well. I could be wrong though, I was just keeping track with his blog and youtube videos and some forums that were discussing him.

To the rest of what you wrote, epic! I hate sounding like a hippie but I love it when ‘hackers’ stick it to the ‘man.’ XD

Better assured world domination should be sufficient motivation for putting a PS4. The new unit would probably have multiple keys with online activation. Sony probably wouldn’t mind leaving out all those without internet connection next time around.

That’s the way the hackers explain it.

In a way it makes sense since there are very few people capable of doing these cracks and most of them do not care about piracy. Commercial pirates usually wait to leech off their work. Removing Other OS pissed off people who otherwise didn’t care about cracking the PS3 and made them want to put Linux back onto the PS3 just to prove that they can.

I wouldn’t exactly say that the talented hackers “reply in kind”. They simply do not see the challenge in unlocking a system that already runs Linux. The removal of Other OS made it a valid challenge. Breaking DRM to run open source software is what they are interested in. Piracy is the collateral damage.

Perhaps the flawed system would still have been eventually cracked by pirates, but Sony certainly didn’t help themselves when they basically issued a challenge out to everyone else by remotely removing an advertised product feature from sold hardware.

And given that we now know that the Xbox 360′s security system was actually slightly better than the PS3′s despite being cracked a long time ago, I think there is something for Sony to think about there.

Jesus:

Arguably they didn’t lose badly this time. The PS3′s security lasted the longest in this generation and earned it the mainstream reputation of being the most secured console, DRM-wise. The question is whether it lasted this long because it was good or because no one good enough was trying until recently.