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Originally Posted by truth411
1. OMG!!! You said that altering a systems features after the console is released should be illegal, I pointed out that, that view is totaly obsured considering the Features that have been added to the PS3 for the past 4 years through firmware updates. If you don't recognize that then your lieing to yourself.
2. OH come on!! It did perform exactly as advertised and still do. YOU AGREED to update to the next frimware knowing that OS will be taken away, if it was that improtant to you than you should not have updated. Remeber the Box is yours but you don't own sony's online services and future software until purchase. If you are going to use their services, you have to play by their rules ALL COMPANYS ARE THAT WAY!!. No company allow you to have your cake and eat it too, because it clearly leads to lost revenue for developers and publishers, and online cheating, everybody looses.
3. People will sue about anything these days and most of those lawsuits have been dismissed.
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You gave examples of new, additional features, most that cost extra money and are not nearly replacements for other os. You obviously don't understand what other os was and what it made the ps3 capable of. It is a totally different media tool without it, and it's not what I and many other people payed for. Like I asked before, if they took off bluray playback would you feel the same way? Updating the firmware is necessary to use ANY of the other features of the ps3 over time, other than maybe the browser. Bluray playback, newer games, many require the firmware update. We'll see what the outcome of the merged class-action suit is. For the few people that know how to use linux, it was a big part of the ps3 and it was touted even pre-release as an impressive and innovative feature and was a major reason the system had a $600 price tag at release. If you remember, the US military bought 2,000 PS3's to run other os on as a supercomputer, a nice fact that Sony threw around to sell the ps3.