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Homebrew denied! Sony closes Vita piracy loophole by removing games from the PlayStation Store

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  reaperman22
  i can see the appeal of homebrew but it is a bit worrying, as soon as hackers start tinkering that [...]
  
  i can see the appeal of homebrew but it is a bit worrying, as soon as hackers start tinkering that just opens up a door for piracy which is only going to lead to a constant stream of updates which just becomes a massive pain in the ass :/
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  Noman679
  Homebrew =/= Piracy Nor is It illegal, it is like installing a secondary desktop on your wii/psp/psv/whatever. You own the [...]
  
  Homebrew =/= Piracy Nor is It illegal, it is like installing a secondary desktop on your wii/psp/psv/whatever. You own the hardware the second you buy it.
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  carl-burns
  According to the EULA you never own the system its sort of lease to you for use and there in [...]
  
  According to the EULA you never own the system its sort of lease to you for use and there in lies the legality issues that arise because i feel the same way you do if you paid for the system you own it but according to what you have to agree to so that you can use the system you never really own it.
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Witcher 2 developer estimates game was pirated at least 4.5 million times

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  ZhugeLiang
  Even if a consumer makes the dubious claim that he would never have bought a game in the first place, [...]
  
  Even if a consumer makes the dubious claim that he would never have bought a game in the first place, if he plays it, he is still capturing the value of an intrinsic good (entertainment) that a producer is supplying - a good from which the consumer benefits and the producer makes no gains for creating. Consumers' shirking of the rules of a market only ever works to break that market down. I have to wonder if illegally downloading software would be such a vogue thing to do, and have such a vocal group of apologists for it, if it didn't have the cachet of the word "piracy" tied to it. Strip away the romanticised notions of folk justice, the rationales that downloads aren't really lost sales, all the justifications, and call software piracy what it really is - "stealing." How many people would so strongly identify with the culture then? Try replacing the words of people who have admitted to "illegally downloading" or "pirating" a game, and replace these terms with the word "stealing." How do these statements read now?
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  rabidpotatochip
  I'm against all forms of piracy but if you're going to "call software piracy what it really is" then you [...]
  
  I'm against all forms of piracy but if you're going to "call software piracy what it really is" then you should be calling it copyright infringement. Stealing is depriving someone of property they own; when you download non-free software you aren't denying the developer access to the original, you're just stepping into a quagmire. So strip away the romanticized notion that these people are thieves and have caused more financial losses than there is money on the entire planet (go ahead, look it up), stop getting into dick-waving contests about what the damages really are or whether they even exist, just call them lawbreakers and be done with it.
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  ZhugeLiang
  Alright, so it's copyright infringement then. No matter what it's called, a consumer is deriving value from a good without [...]
  
  Alright, so it's copyright infringement then. No matter what it's called, a consumer is deriving value from a good without the producer seeing any gains for having paid the cost to put it on the market, which by definition contributes to market failure. Which is why I stand by the ethos that if someone doesn't like a game, then they don't have to buy it - but they don't get to play it, either. It just irks me that so many people have come out to defend software piracy under one banner or another. Many of these reasons are asinine and absurdly specific to downloads. If someone steals a copy of Fallout from Best Buy, it's shoplifting. But if someone illegally downloads it, suddenly it's host to a whole slew of rationalizations and justifications that would never have been put forth for the former. I don't understand how people can make such a strong mental distinction between the two.
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