The rest of Sean Workman’s address to critics of Sony’s aggressive anti-haxor campaign.

READ PART 1 HERE

A letter to the idiots upset by Sony’s promise to aggressively “pwn the hax0rs”:

by Sean Workman

3. Bluray media and burners aren’t exactly cheap. Not to mention the rather large disk images you’d need to (presumably download or manage on your own if you ripped them from say a rental game). It’s most definitely not so easy and cheap that everybody and their brother will run out and buy (or as with the 360’s DVD discs, already own) equipment just to copy games.4. It’s SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS worth of junk if you hose it up and/or get kicked/banned from PSN. If it was $199, people might be willing to buy one and intentionally keep it off the grid in hopes of using it to pirate games on one, and play legit games and/or online on the other.

But I digress. You insist you’re not a pirate. You want HOMEBREW software, nothing more. If you were able to pirate, you’d only use that unimportant ability to legitimately backup your software in case your cat decided to sharpen its claws on your copy of MotorStorm, right? We’ll ignore the fact that unless you own a Bengal Tiger your cat probably CAN’T scratch a Bluray disc.

What is it about homebrew that’s so appealing to you? What do you really want? Emulators? I won’t even touch on the fact that claiming you aren’t interested in piracy but ARE interested in emulators is a bit… oxyMORONic. I’d wager MORE than 99/100 people that use emulators are pirating the ROMs they’re playing. I’d up those odds to 999/1000 quite comfortably. Okay, so we’ll ignore emulators. What DO you want homebrew for? Media playback with codecs of your choice? Homemade games? Porting over Firefox for a proper web browser? I mean COME ON, the PS3 officially supports Linux. You can already officially DO all those things… even run emulators! Does the fact that it’s there, for free, supported by Sony somehow take the fun away? Are you not happy until your homebrew launches from the XMB itself? You can’t be fussed with booting into Linux and actually, I don’t know, use a PROPER development environment to write REAL applications with no overshadowing sense of rebellion to the entire process? Does degrading to just “a programmer” instead of “a hacker” somehow cause what you’re doing to lose whatever it is that appeals to you? I’m sorry, I can’t follow this hypothetical train of thought any longer…

Why again are you up in arms over Sony promising to aggressively pursue people found hacking their PS3’s?Sean Workman is a free lance contributor to Sarcastic Gamer and many other websites.

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