[CoLoCo] Live by the EULA Die by the EULA

[Paul Hummer]

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> Which pretty much "proves" yet again the futility of trying to fight
> it.  Sony decided to give up on trying to fight people who would
> eventually modchip the PS3 and circumvented them altogether making the
> games Region Free.  That's right folks, you can play foreign PS3 titles
> in an American PS3 console without modding it.  Sony also gave up on
> trying to fight homebrew game developers from trying to make their own
> games for the console too and they released a version of Linux designed
> to run on the hardware also.  When will companies realize that they are
> just wasting their time trying to fight stuff like this, whether its
> legal or not.  Besides, the latest statistics show the whole piracy
> thing is still being overblown as bigger than it really is.
This is all correct.  My justification for purchasing the PS3 was for
it's "open" capabilities.  It's not completely open, and there is a
pile of DRM infected media and such in it, but it's still got things
like an official linux distribution (created by some guys in
Loveland), and the UPnP client that reads off DRM free movies and
music from my system upstairs (which is quite nice).

However, before you start proclaiming that Sony did this to be
consumer friendly, realize that the purchase of PS3's is what truly
won the format war.  All the money that Sony dumped (by the millions)
into the PS3 were in a gamble to win the format war, and thus, BD
licensing costs.  We'll see if that happens, or if the world is just
going to skip to completely digital media (I'll continue to buy
physical media until we get this DRM stuff sorted out and disposed of).

Paul

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