**PS3 Backups as of 05/09 cannot be played yet**

Well sorry for being misinformed.

I dont think the reason is because its too expensive. If it was then it would be up to the gamer to choose to spend the money.

Your also right about the vulnerable thing but face it we dont know who is working on hacking the ps3 or if someone even is

 

What the hell is CFW?

 

CFW = Custom FirmWare. Its a user modified version of an official firmware.

 

Ah, Enlightend, thankyou.

Thats a good point you made, who is working on hacking the PS3 right now??, has anyone heard anything?, I'm guessing its all down to money in some way...

 

it hasnt been hacked (yet) because Sony have done a good job and made the PS3 very secure. No exploits have been found to allow (almost) anything to be done that Sony didnt want, and the things that have been done, sony have acted quickly and stopped it.

I for one hope they keep up the good work.

EDIT: formatting corrected.

 

**PS3 Backups as of 05/08 cannot be played yet**


Could we get an update/date change please.....?

 

The date format is confusing too. Is it dd/mm, mm/dd or mm/yy?

Why not dd/[3 letters of month]/yyyy?

Other than that, we really only need an update when something happens. I kinda enjoy the lack of piracy on PS3. At least it means we won't be tempted.

 

An eloquent argument, though flawed logic. I shall explain why;

Using your analogy, a "pirate" is not actually walking into a store, seeing the sofa he can not afford, and deciding to walk out with it. Essentially, he is taking along a tape-measure and notebook, gathering all the dimensions and stylings of the sofa. He then goes off to buy materials at cost price, and makes a copy of the sofa he saw. So the questions becomes; Should the guy be able to make the sofa he wants, but can't ever afford, even though someone else designed it?

BTW; I'm not coming down on either side here, I just thought an adjustment to the analogy was necessary, as it could be argued that intellectual property should not be considered the same as acutal property ;-)

 

lol ok then.
~the sofa wont have a copyright on it... the game DOES!
so your not making a clone as such, from cheap material. it still is stealing because you broke the terms of the copyright.

lmao i'll admit that im a pirate but i tell you what... i wont go around making crappy excuses pmsl

 

Another question you should ask is why is the B-whatever they are doing as much as they can to sue pirates in the US, UK and other western countries, whist in the east piracy is happening a hell of a lot more! Even to the point they sell the pirated copies in shops in plain sight!

If you ask me they are losing a hell of a lot more in the east but are more concerned about getting thousands of dollars from individuals in the west.

 

Fair enough.
But that said, do you actually consider yourself a thief? i.e. is what you do the same as walking into a game store and pocketing a few games before walking (running?) out?

 

This thread just needs to be closed, it is completely useless and off-topic.

 

if it hasnt been hacked yet it wont happen. and i dont care cause i buy the exclusive titles for the ps3 to play on live. id be more intersted if they had an easy hack to play ps2 backups on the ps3 at this point

 

"Just because its easier to steal games than it is a sofa doesn't make it any more right to do so."

Expert in Kantian ethics are we....? Didnt think so. Ethically it is indeed considered a greater ill to steal from a store as more offences are commited through the actual act of physical theft rather than cyber theft.

 

LOL lets just change the topic here. First of all companies are going on about copyright, and breaking this leads to court procedings. Now the thing is that even a legal court seems to be governed by religion, why else did they ask you to put your hand on the bible, even if you dont you are asked to swear in the presence of god or whatever.

Anyway you can argue that from a religion point of view the person claiming copyright is the one committing fraud as the creation of the media was not from them but given to them by a god and hence truely belongs to god and that it whould be god who should request for the breach in copyright.

Bah anyway you get my stupid point, but wouldnt it be fun to see what happens if someone tried that

 

I dont claim to be an expert in any type of ethics at all...but as far as i am aware, Kantian ethics does not really concern this situation.
My undersatnding of Kantian ethics is that it is based upon the concept of motive being the critical factor in deciding whether a decision is moral.
Kant theorised that a moral decision was one undertaken out of a sense of duty, and not upon feelings (such as pity); the expectations of others; or other factors such as the possibility of reward etc.

So, if we go by Kant's teachings, we're guilty of piracy simply by considering the act.

But which ever way you look at it, piracy IS stealing, and stealing IS bad.

Like i said, i'm not an expert in Kantian theory, and some of his ideas may be relevant, but i dont think a thread on PS3 backups is the best place to discuss this any further.

So back on topic, i agree that this thread should be locked. The best thing to do would probably be for a mod to update the thred if/when any news on the subject breaks. I unsubscribed from the thread a long time ago, and wont be reading it again. If there is any progress on the issue, i'll more than likely hear about it from a news item on the main page