Sony Wants To Know Why You're Hacking Your PSP

Hercules · 04-10-2008, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Kotaku

The engineers at Sony can't be too thrilled with fighting the constant battle against PSP hackers, issuing firmware updates that "strengthen security" in a futile attempt to curb piracy and homebrew applications. Going by a recent survey commissioned by Sony Computer Entertainment, passed on to us by a reader who was asked to take part, the company seems to be looking into the reasons why PSP owners are opening up their portables.

Sony reps call the survey a part of "ongoing PSP consumer research", attempting to learn more about the size of the PSP hacking population and the mentality behind the behavior. Questions like "Do you know of anyone who has "hacked," or modified, transferred and customized their PSP firmware and software?" were included elsewhere in the poll.

We're following up with Sony to learn more about its research.

i wish sony will just join us...and stop complaining..i mean with a modded psp, you can do things, no one EVER imagined..its been about two years and they are JUST NOW worrying about it being hacked? face it, the psp will never not be hackable, just worry about the ps3 (my baby) and i am happy

Hoi-Yant · 04-10-2008, 02:14 PM

Ha ha ha~ this is rich. I see that some questions are structured in a way to attempt to strum up "guilt" in us, ex; the ones that mention developpers.

Do you have the link to the survey? I'd like to fill it out for kicks.

iedwardsIII · 04-10-2008, 03:30 PM

Link? Or was it one of those random email things or did it just pop up when you went to us.playstation.com

Hoi-Yant · 04-10-2008, 03:33 PM

I would highly doubt that this was emailed to PSP owners. If it were, that would meant that Sony knows how big the modding community is and who is in said community. And isn't that one of the things they're trying to find out?

iedwardsIII · 04-10-2008, 03:37 PM

Well, the main thing they're trying to figure out is how big the community is. Which would make a huge difference for them in the future. Knowing who everyone is wouldn't make a difference at all because they can't do anything with the names.

But you're right, the emailing to every registered PSP user thing isn't how this popped up because then I'm pretty sure non-hacked psp owners and hacked psp owners would reply therefore blowing the number of hacked psp owners out of proportion.

Anyway, I just want a link so I can fill it out.

psp · 04-10-2008, 04:33 PM

well i hope people make psp hacking look more like a fun thing rather than a pracy thing,

i honestly just enjoy modding my psp, giving it cool looks and do things that suit me

legendofaj · 04-10-2008, 04:48 PM

this is crazy. maybe if enough people say that hacking a psp is much better than having the peice of shit you buy out of their box, they'll hire up DA and together they'll have the uberleet psp? lol

ibe2fly4chu · 04-10-2008, 04:57 PM

wow. just wow. Lol Yea sony just mad because the hackers who hack their firmware usually come up with interesting homebrew apps. I bet you if they had a section where they bought your homebrew and then they can resell it and make proffit from it they would not even be complaining. I have looked at things official firmware intends on doing...like programming the psp to run ps1 games...ofcourse..when custom firmware came out this was an outrage. But as soon as sony figured out a way how to market it its gonna be on official firmware. If u ask me lol its these same hackers that they blame that help them develop the system even further. Get a life sony and instead of giving modders a bad name learn from them...and by the way..if the definition of hacker is closely looked up on its not someone who intends on getting pirated content....

TwoLOUD · 04-10-2008, 05:15 PM

Some of those question are funny. Like a trap? Not really but some of those questions are whack.

If anyone does actually find where you can fill this out please post a link. Maybe this is the start of something, even tho its a fine line between piracy and 'hacking'.

sam31183 · 04-10-2008, 09:31 PM

Everytime I hack a psp god kills a kitten, so, that is actually my only reason why.

Canada2113 · 04-10-2008, 10:24 PM

there is no separation of Hacking and Piracy in that survey. I love hacking my psp because i can do more with it, but that doesnt necessarily mean that i do it to pirate games.
Sony should do what Apple did. Hand out the sdk and let people make their own programs then send them to sony. If sony approves of it (as in it doesnt involve anything illegal) then they sign the code and publish it. The only downside to that is that emulators wouldnt pass the test, but it would be a great way to get the whole community involved in a 100% legal way.

I hope they send it to me. I want to fill this out.

ranma15g · 04-10-2008, 11:34 PM

The fact that in some ways applications wise the psp is doing things I couldn't get done with a jailbreaked touch makes me smile. The fact that saving my copies of final fantasy 7, 8, and 9 along with chrono cross and the remade chrono trigger are all paying off now. Plus, all my mp4's streaming onto this thing seemlessly (thank you psp). If Sony wants to know why, I hope it would be so that they would actually think about why we are using these extensions and possiby apply them to a psp 2.

Sullivan · 04-11-2008, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by psp

well i hope people make psp hacking look more like a fun thing rather than a pracy thing,

i honestly just enjoy modding my psp, giving it cool looks and do things that suit me

damn psp i saw your post and i had to check the date of the thread. lol havnt been here in a while.. im chinese people.

i modded it to feel like a rebel...

dreamstalker7 · 04-11-2008, 12:58 AM

Well, its obvious Sony is finally evaluating the fact that no matter what they do, we all are gonna keep on hacking, as it should be. This could be a good thing because, they've got to be aware that they cant do anything to stop us, so maybe they'll start moving in a direction which is good for everyone, although Id say thats relatively unlikely, because when it all boils down, they dont want you to play psp games you downloaded, even if they gave me everything cfw has to offer, except the ability to play bootleg psp games Id still hack my psp, and honestly at 40 bucks a games, well............I dont really feel to bad

Canada2113 · 04-11-2008, 01:44 AM

They could come up with some fancy kind of umd serial number and if you play the physical umd on your psp it will write that serial to the flash0 and allow that game to boot from a MS. That way in order to pirate the game you have to at least rent or borrow it. Im sure there will eventually be a way around that method, but i wouldnt really need to hack my psp if they let me do that. Just an idea though.