Sony just stole something from me

[Dark Jaguar]

My PSP actually is hacked, and it's given me a lot of useful things. I never had much need to pirate anything (besides my ignorance on where to find PSP games online, I tend to pick up any PSP game I want pretty quickly anyway). Thanks to the hack, I've been able to take my library of PS1 games and stick them on my PSP to play on the go (with much nicer added backgrounds than what the PS store adds). I've also got a wide assortment of "homebrew" games on the thing. In fact I often play more custom games than actual Sony games. Yes, I get that this may be reason for them to be upset, but I'm hardly doing anything criminal here, despite their protests. The closest it gets is I do have various old school system emulators loaded on the thing full of games I already own to play them on the go. When the choices are, buy an emulated version of a game I already paid for when it was new and still own, or just rip the game and use it on the emulator on a modded system, the choice is clear to me. That hardly makes me a thief. You can't own "portability".

They originally designed the PS3's linux mode with the idea of allowing users to do whatever they wanted with the PS3, just outside their own user interface, and I was happy with that. Removing that is frustrating. I may upgrade anyway, already having a PC, but I did spend a lot of time setting up that linux install just how I liked it and I really shouldn't have to be making this choice. People who care more about this feature than I do are already complaining loudly.

There's also rumors this is some badly timed April Fool's Day joke because the date on the news post is April 1st, which I failed to notice because, well, it isn't April yet. I certainly hope that's the case.