![]() While the subject may make them uncomfortable, the idea of legalizing CFW and opening up the system further to piracy will make third-party publishers even more uncomfortable. The OtherOS removal has sparked several lawsuits, a custom firmware attempting to restore OtherOS, and even an apology from SCEE.įor now these new DMCA exemptions may be limited to mobile phones, but they will hopefully spur Sony into further loosening their restrictions on PSP and PS3 development to allow for true “homebrew” games and applications. The OtherOS option allowed gamers to install a third party guest Operating System like Linux to run in a virtual environment similar to VMware for the PC. The threat of even a potential for CFW for the PS3 also recently drove Sony to remove the OtherOS option from the PS3 3.21 firmware. Of course, CFW can also allow gamers to create backups of their UMD games and play them from a Memory Stick, which could also be considered Fair Use. In addition to allowing gamers to install and run homebrew, CFW can allow more scruple-deficient gamers to run games that they have downloaded illicitly from the Internet. ![]() Sony and many third-party publishers have attributed slow sales of PSP software to the other-side effect of PSP CFW - piracy. History seems to have revealed that statement to be a foreshadowing of the PSP Minis platform that makes it a little bit easier for developers to make games for the PSP and PS3, but still falls short of allowing just any old schmuck with a text editor and a cross compiler to make a PSP game or application. And I think we’d like to try and tap into that a little bit more.” We certainly see some of the stuff that has been done via homebrew, and it’s incredibly creative. “I think that is something that is in the works. Sony has been very vocal about the company’s position on the matter, and continuously modifies the PSP’s official firmware to try to block and discourage CFW.Įveryone’s favorite SCEA President and CEO Jack Tretton himself offered up his own mixed emotions on the subject a few years ago in reference to PSP homebrew: CFW allows a PSP gamer to run custom software, or “homebrew”, on their handheld allowing for features that Sony’s “Official Firmware” (OFW) doesn’t support. While the language in these exceptions are specific to “wireless telephone handsets”, these methods of circumvention are similar in spirit to the way PSP Custom Firmware (CFW) works. (3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network. (2) Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset. Here are the specific exceptions that could affect the PSP and even other gaming devices: ![]()
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