Pirates are stupid. Linux geeks? I expect more.
Although comments sections on news sites are generally a magnet for the sad, lonely and overwhelmingly, the just plain mental, I couldn’t help but respond to one on The Register today.
The Reg reported that the PlayStation 3 has been hacked allowing users to poke around inside and run all sorts of code rather than the consumer code like films and games that we mere consumers get to usually use.
Giles Jones commented thusly
Sony have themselves to blame
This hack might not have appeared if Sony hadn't dropped support for running Linux on the PS3. As a result they now face the possibility of game piracy.
So, as Giles says, if Sony had supported Linux on its flagship games/movies/Blu-ray player then no-one would have been tempted to bypass all that copy protection in order to play pirated games.
Well done Giles, you fucking numbskull. Because people try to play pirated games on every console. The rights and wrongs of this are well known and I’m not going to go into that argument as it has been done to death a million times.
The very idea that people were devoting time and effort into cracking the copy protection because they wanted to run fucking Linux on it just defies belief.
As I responded in the comments, if this code to jailbreak a PS is downloaded 1000 times, then 999 people are searching for a way to play pirated games on their PS3 and one people is doing it to run Linux. And lets be frank, here, I’m being generous with those 1 in 1000 odds.
The excuses used to justify piracy/mod-chipping are just as bad as those used to justify DRM and stealth rootkits. A plague on both their houses.
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