Worldwide, many users of the Sony PSP are really concerned about a worry that lingers on their hyper active gaming minds. Why is the PSP hacked so much? Sony even asked millions of the PSP users this seemingly innocuous question in a survey. If you have heard of the homebrew, you won’t be surprised at the question because the piracy is rampant and thanks to the Internet, the state of piracy has just multiplied like a million times. Why does it happen? Do the users feel a sense of rebellion? Does it quench a perverse thirst to try and defy the norms?
What is going to come out of the survey in terms of system security is something we will have to stand by to wait and see, but then the question — when raised in a popular website dedicated to the PSP — has raised some Interesting points.
On a similar posting like this one on PSPfanboy, a comment quoted as is, popped up :
“If PSPfanboy cares so much about this why do you guys post every single time a new custom firmware comes out. i know not every person who uses custom firmware pirates games but this isn’t helping stop the problem.”
And the comment was promptly answered here:
“Because your selective bias fails today, and fails forever. Hiding information and attempting to keep people ignorant–because they can get such information from elsewhere–isn’t going to make them any more or less honest.
Custom Firmware can have a variety of other uses. Custom Firmware is also news. Doesn’t mean they endorse abuse with said software. If individuals like you and those pirates develop any sense of ‘reason’, you’d realize that censoring things like custom firmware news will do jack to curb piracy. This is the internet; a genuine pirate will get their custom firmware updates from an infinite number of quarters”
Although the answer does quell the doubt raised by the inquisitive commentator, the system of PSP system security still remains and the piracy still looms large out there. What Sony does about it is still something that we will have to wait and watch?
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The question is more or less rhetorical, because it is of course obvious that hacked (or should we say “open”) PSP offers enormously more options.
