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PSJailbreak legalized in Spain |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: lawsuit, news, playstation 3 updates, psjailbreak, Sony
Rushing to protect the PS3 from hacks, Sony had taken the fight to different courts, trying to outlaw the PSJailbreak and the other PS3 hacking tools. Their movement scored a victory in Australia, where such devices have now been classified illegal. For Spain, it's a different story.
One argument that decided this case was the premise that the PS3 simply isn't restricted to use with games and PlayStation-related services. The user is basically allowed to do whatever he wanted with the console that he/she purchased, and that includes tampering with its features as well as its insides. The issue of the Other OS removal was also brought up, indicating that Sony has refused features from their product that was available during the time of sale.
As a result, Court No 8 Mercantil de Barcelona, ruled that the PSJailbreak and other related devices are now all legal in Spain. Sony will also have to pay damages to the shops and retailers that were affected by Sony's legal actions.
You can view the Google-translated court ruling here.
Thanks, ImTheReaper!
NicagamerZ [via PSX Scene]
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Apple is the only company that proved hands down that DRM is simply not needed in this case. Anyone can jack OSX. All you do is copy it. Absolutely no security protecting it. Problem is, in their case, you need to actually make money off the hardware.
So what's the solution? Charge more for the hardware and let people do what they want.
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It shouldn't been legalized but Sony is only giving crappy features, or none at all.
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Yes I'm looking at their half-hearted attempt at a backward-compatible (they even advertise PS3 early on it would be but removed it). If there's ever one reason for me to get Jailbreak, it will definitely be the ability to play PS2 games.
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People who still have one of the first-gen PS3s with hardware emulation support can still play PS2 games, so that's not a firmware issue. Jailbreak won't be much of a help here.
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but make use is another story
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Or is there another PS2 emu around that I'm missing?
Don't count on a PS2 emu for PS3 very soon. It'll take much work and seriously hard working and talented devs to do it, but it seems to me the PS3 homebrew development won't be mature enough to do it for a while (if you doubt, take a look on what's been developed so far... emulators for consoles that are 20 or more years old, exception made for a PSone emulator that's not even half stable, and very basic a-bit-better-than-pong-like games).
I'd like to share your optimism, but you'll have to admit that what I wrote is closer to reality for now.
Anyone care to rebate this (on purpose) pessimism with valid arguments?
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TONS of games work just fine with the EMU's. Of course not all of them. Hell, not ALL games worked on the PS3 as it was.
Something is better then nothing.
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I believe they turned it off because of compatibility issues.
However, PS2 aside....can't all PS3s play PS1 games? I thought all PS1 emulation was done through software and that's always been left on? Can anyone confirm that? I have no PS1 discs.
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You need to correct that statement. Put a percentage behind it but don't do it until you have the facts.
I use mine to boot MY games off the HDD. Soon I hope to be messing around with the memory space. That's it.
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however score 1 for the spanish.
us brits arent so lucky
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hallo from slovakia.
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Tell you what, instead of me explaining it to all you little ones out in hacking land, I will give it a few days for the real translated version to come down the pipe.
P.S.
This whole Writeup is wrong, it's not even close in the meanning of this case.
I guess allot can be said for trure translation, or even beter a hacker that will write anything negitive about Sony that they can even without vetting first.
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gots' mad skills ,he could pwn the ps i bets.
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I still wouldn't get it though
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Sony wouldn't miss out on revenue from consoles because of this, you forget even Jailbreakers are customers (the jailbreaking of the PS3 will without a doubt have sent sales of the console up) - I for one bought a PS3 very recently because it had been jailbroken and am very excited to see what can be done with it, and since buying i've bought extra controllers, the ps move starter kit and games which is all money to sony.
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