(As reported in the Dec 2005 issue of Maximum PC, page 10)
PSP (Play Station). Sony has been aggressively updating the firmware (A chip imbedded inside the unit) on its PlayStation Portable game systems ever since the initial release of the device last March. Many people found that they could run other software programs on their PSP, such as game emulators originally developed for other gaming systems. Well Sony will have none of that. Anything you play on their PSP had better be something they sell or have a license fee too. So what they have been doing is building patches into their games, once you run one of their new games, software on the disk automatically installs a firmware update. These new games will not play without the update, so there is no way around it. Basically Sony is saying you don’t own their PSP, you’re just ‘renting’ it. They own it and will tell you what you can and can not do with it.

They did get royally raped by the fact that you can run the official games on the memory card and use that loader software.

Well........

I just bought 2 a few days ago........

:confused:

1 for each kid

Yeh dont worry, He is just upset because he cant steal his games anymore.
There perfectly fine for the legally minded amongst you.

Yeah, like anyone here doesn't have one piece of software or music or video on their computer that they didn't pay for!

But I don't own anything with the name SONY on it.