Piracy of commercial games on consoles will always be spurred on by price. If the games cost £10 when new then you wouldn't see it as much, but there will always be those who will pirate for free regardless, and you won't ever stop them.

I think with the PSP Go, Sony were testing the water ready for the PSP 2. Seeing that DL only wasn't popular the PSP 2 will now use a memory card style game cart to load games, alongside DL versions using the PS3 PN Store.

I fully agree regarding Linux support on the PS3. HAd they left it in then homebrew and emulator developers would have still had a way to develop for the system, all be it not directly as a hardware level. It would have reduced the need to hack the firmware and release a custom one. I doubt it will be all that long before 3.56 is released as a CFW, but also I think from now on it will be a cat and mouse game with Sony patching quickly each time to block them. They haven't managed it fully with the PSP CFW yet, so I can't see them being able to forever with the PS3 either. Only time will tell.

Personally I only want to run CFW on the PS3 for emulators.