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    PSP firmware hacker Dark Alex in the news

    This months Edge magazine has a half page feature on the Sony PSP and the hacker dark_alex.

    It goes into detail on how quickly the hacker managed to hack the new 3.02 firmware soon after its release and then chose to release the custom firmware on Christmas day. It even goes into detail on what the hacked firmware does including the ability to run illegally distributed ISOs and the ability to run almost all dumped PSX images via memorystick.

    It ends with a quote from Sony "Piracy is detrimental to the end consumer" and "We are against piracy 100 percent and will continue to protect our intellectual property and fight agains it in all its forms."

    I would love to see how they are going to do this now. It's one thing for custom hacked firmware for a system to be released for people into modding systems to use, but now all of this information has been printed in a more mainstream magazine more people are bound to want to try it out and the word will quickly spread. Reporting such news in magazines is great for promoting the hacked exploiits, something I bet Sony haven't realised.

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    Good news! Anything that hurts Sony is fine with me.
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    You're definitely no Sony fan!!

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    They must have done something really bad to you in the past LowercaseE, to hold such a grudge!

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    They're instituting censorship with BluRay and I am absolutely 100% against that. They have threatened pulling BR licenses from manufacturers that press adult DVDs. Now granted I don't buy pr0n (why buy it when you can DL it free?) but that's still censorship and it's wrong. I just don't like Sony and their whole "we want to control every aspect of media" mentality.
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    They have threatened pulling BR licenses from manufacturers that press adult DVDs.
    But that hurts Sony themselves, I think that pr0n is one of the biggest markets out there, so when Sony doesn't allow pr0n on BluRay, they will lose a lot of customers.

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    /\ Very true. Regardless though, it's still censorship and it's wrong.
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    Someone once said, "You know a technology has made it once the Porn industry is using it!" I forget who said that but it is very true.

    VHS was used by them instead of Betamax and it won, DVD was quickly adopted and that industry is one of the only that has found a use for multi angle! If the Porn industry go with HD-DVD then BluRay is going to have trouble as a video format. Whatever happens though it wil continue as a gaming format for the PS3 regardless.

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    If it stays on the PS3 for the games, that's fine with me because I have no plans of buying a PS3.
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    Yeah im right behind you LowercaseE i wont be buying a PS3 either, and im glad to hear they have threatened pulling BR licenses from manufacturers that press adult DVDs because harrison is right it could be the death of BluRay which would make my day.
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