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<blockquote data-quote="Zonerunner" data-source="post: 308937"><p>Sony's claim is that it will help "protect intellectual properties" - i.e. prevent piracy. A noble endeavour, to be sure, but with two key failings:</p><p></p><p>1) If there's a vunerabillity in the Linux portion of the PS3, it can be patched. Completely removing access to a whole portion of a system just to prevent one potential bug seems a little... extreme.</p><p></p><p>2) This patch happens to come out in the week Microsoft are allowing people to use any off the shelf memory stick in their system. I can forsee people plugging these memory sticks into their PC's and trying to crack it so they can download some DLC and essentially pirate it. I am sure Microsoft has put plenty of protection in on this front - they're not stupid - but it's a clear case of one patch removing functionality and closing up the system, while the other adds features and opens it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zonerunner, post: 308937"] Sony's claim is that it will help "protect intellectual properties" - i.e. prevent piracy. A noble endeavour, to be sure, but with two key failings: 1) If there's a vunerabillity in the Linux portion of the PS3, it can be patched. Completely removing access to a whole portion of a system just to prevent one potential bug seems a little... extreme. 2) This patch happens to come out in the week Microsoft are allowing people to use any off the shelf memory stick in their system. I can forsee people plugging these memory sticks into their PC's and trying to crack it so they can download some DLC and essentially pirate it. I am sure Microsoft has put plenty of protection in on this front - they're not stupid - but it's a clear case of one patch removing functionality and closing up the system, while the other adds features and opens it up. [/QUOTE]
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