I thought the whole thing was hilarious. The pirates couldn't crack the console, so they told everyone not to buy the PS3 because they wouldn't be able to play pirated games and stuff. But then Sony did something stupid and removed the ability to use Unix on the PS3 so those guys (homebrewers) were like 'RAWRRR' and cracked it.
Lesson learned: Never mess with the guys who know what they're doing!
You're making a pretty egregious (and insulting) mistake by conflating pirates (i.e., those just want to steal games) with homebrewers (really intelligent electrical engineers, mathematicians with PhDs, tec).
That's not to say that those who crack things (essentially "pirates) like SecureROM and SafeDisk aren't intelligent, but the fail0verflow is on a whole 'nother level.
I read what veb said as there were two different groups.
"Pirates" who were unable to crack it.
"Homebrewers" who didn't want to (because it previously run Linux so they could do homebrew without cracking it).
Sony remove the Linux ability, so the second group ("Homebrewers"), now had motivation to crack it, and succeeded.
If anything I think veb's comment was complementary of homebrewers. He is saying they succeeded where the pirates failed.
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I thought the whole thing was hilarious. The pirates couldn't crack the console, so they told everyone not to buy the PS3 because they wouldn't be able to play pirated games and stuff. But then Sony did something stupid and removed the ability to use Unix on the PS3 so those guys (homebrewers) were like 'RAWRRR' and cracked it.
Lesson learned: Never mess with the guys who know what they're doing!
You're making a pretty egregious (and insulting) mistake by conflating pirates (i.e., those just want to steal games) with homebrewers (really intelligent electrical engineers, mathematicians with PhDs, tec).
That's not to say that those who crack things (essentially "pirates) like SecureROM and SafeDisk aren't intelligent, but the fail0verflow is on a whole 'nother level.
I read what veb said as there were two different groups.
"Pirates" who were unable to crack it. "Homebrewers" who didn't want to (because it previously run Linux so they could do homebrew without cracking it).
Sony remove the Linux ability, so the second group ("Homebrewers"), now had motivation to crack it, and succeeded.
If anything I think veb's comment was complementary of homebrewers. He is saying they succeeded where the pirates failed.