Sony could disable JBed PS3s

[rook2King]

Alright!! Well then if sony has lost the video game frontier at least they have other electronics sales to fall back on. HEhehe, irony pirating a ps3 game on a sony laptop.

 

[Rydian]

I don't see why people make a fuss about this. Sony can't brick your PS3, it's not possible.

Why the hell you guys argue about something they can't even do to begin with. Even if they wanted to do it, they can't, they don't have the mean of doing anything of the sort.

The only thing they can do is ban your console from PSN. They won't ban your account, since this would be completely pointless.

Step 1 - Have an update not ask for permission.
Step 2 - Have that update overwrite a critical firmware file with a corrupt copy.
Step 3 - Shut down the system.

Of course there's recovery mode, but they fucking MADE it, they know how to break it.

 

[rook2King]

I see your point... I am now confused. Will now go to research more on this.

 

[SifJar]

I don't see why people make a fuss about this. Sony can't brick your PS3, it's not possible.

Why the hell you guys argue about something they can't even do to begin with. Even if they wanted to do it, they can't, they don't have the mean of doing anything of the sort.

The only thing they can do is ban your console from PSN. They won't ban your account, since this would be completely pointless.

How on earth would you know what Sony can and can not do? Do you work high up within Sony? If not, the answer to the first question is that you don't. There is no reason Sony couldn't have put a back door in there to blow a fuse or something stupid in your PS3 if a certain reply was sent from a server. Or to delete a critical file or something. Now doing so would be very, very risky from a legal standpoint, and I believe it'd be completely illegal in most countries, and they'd probably have to replace a lot of consoles, but it is possible. Do not underestimate them, just because they made a small error in their signature generating code doesn't mean they are incompetent.

 

[Giga_Gaia]

I don't work for Sony, but unlike you and other people, I am actually using my coming sense.

Sony can't brick your console and even if they could, they wouldn't do it. The legal repercussions doing that would have would put them in too much trouble.

I don't know where this rumor started, but it's obviously nothing but a scare tactic, just like how they're suing the hackers now. Sony won't win against Geohotz. Apple tried to take him down and they failed, so Sony won't succeed either.

 

[fgghjjkll]

I don't work for Sony, but unlike you and other people, I am actually using my coming sense.

Sony can't brick your console and even if they could, they wouldn't do it. The legal repercussions doing that would have would put them in too much trouble.

I don't know where this rumor started, but it's obviously nothing but a scare tactic, just like how they're suing the hackers now. Sony won't win against Geohotz. Apple tried to take him down and they failed, so Sony won't succeed either.

First of all, It's common sense*

Geohot and failoverfl0w are in deeper shit than you think. Although their works are purely dedicated to homebrew, their work is being used to a more extent, than the iOS, for piracy.

iOS is quite understandable. You had Cydia, an alternate appstore for apps that were declined by Apple to be put on the official App Store, but the Sony Playstation doesn't have that. Even the majority of the homebrew are probably emulators and although they are not illegal, they do set a bad impression for the courts.

I wish I could side with you, believing that Geohotz is going to win this easily, but this is not Geohot vs Apple. This is Geohot vs Sony. The circumstances are a little different.

 

[Rydian]

Sony can brick the system easily.

However they won't for legal reasons (and to not piss off their fanbase any further).

 

[DiscostewSM]

I don't work for Sony, but unlike you and other people, I am actually using my coming sense.

Many people here think Sony doesn't use common sense though.

 

[SifJar]

I don't work for Sony, but unlike you and other people, I am actually using my coming sense.

Sony can't brick your console and even if they could, they wouldn't do it. The legal repercussions doing that would have would put them in too much trouble.

I don't know where this rumor started, but it's obviously nothing but a scare tactic, just like how they're suing the hackers now. Sony won't win against Geohotz. Apple tried to take him down and they failed, so Sony won't succeed either.

I said quite clearly that they wouldn't due to legal repercussions. But that doesn't mean they can't. There are files sent back and forth between the PS3 and Sony's servers during start up, that has been proven, there is no reason they couldn't brick the console. But of course, they won't. I didn't say they would.