>>31
The PS3
is a general purpose computer. The PS3 has very interesting hardware. When Sony sells a PS3 to a customer, the customer should have every right to control their own machine according to their own desire. Cracking the PS3's anti-tamper platform
is very much a USER FREEDOM issue: users should be able to control and tamper with their own machine.
The PS3 has excellent hardware but its treacherous computing platform prevented me from purchasing it - Sony expects to be able to control
MY machine after I pay good money for it (assuming that I did buy it). Now that I know that this treacherous computing platform is defeated allowing the user full access to the machine, I can now safely consider purchasing one. No, I don't care about breaking copyright and obtaining unauthorised copies of games, I only play free as in freedom software titles and not these society-hostile proprietary titles.
You might say that people like me that care about these sorts of things are one in a million and that most people only care for paying zero for software titles, and I guess that's true, but that only means that a million people are ignorant plebeians that'll lose their freedoms long before they even have any consciousness of a freedom-toxic status quo.