{"id":341,"date":"2010-09-01T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2011-12-12T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:05:10","slug":"modchips-the-battle-was-won-the-war-is-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/modchips-the-battle-was-won-the-war-is-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Modchips, the battle was won, the war is lost."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSony recently went the way of Nintendo in trying to ban \u201cmodchips\u201d from sale. With a degree of success from both companies coming from the fact that the modchip had little \u201clegal\u201d use, despite arguments about homebrew and backups.<\/p>\n

PSGroove was just released. Its source code for the new PS3 Hack. Out in the open. But what does it run on? Won\u2019t the \u201cmodchip\u201d get banned?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

It runs on an existing development platform that has been selling thousands without any use for \u2018hacking\u2019 as Sony see it.<\/p>\n

Sold at many large companies such as Digi-key and RS this device has VERY clear legitimate use and has a huge market before the PSGroove code was released. <\/p>\n

How can Sony ban this item? That would be about as likely as getting cricket bats banned because somebody found you could hit people with them. It\u2019s just not going to happen.
\nThis finally brings to a head my point about modchips from the start, they are just simple microprocessors on a PCB. Most of the older ones were on generic PCBs and had to be hand soldered. If sold with NO code installed, how can it break any law or get banned?<\/p>\n

Its like trying to ban wires because they can be used to make bombs. <\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait to see what happens when Sony tell Atmel and Microchip to stop making components, or tell Digi-key and RS to stop selling components. It just won\u2019t happen. It Can\u2019t happen. If it does, the world is beyond saving.<\/p>\n

The device in question is the Atmel
\nUSB Key<\/a>. How exactly do they plan to fight this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony recently went the way of Nintendo in trying to ban \u201cmodchips\u201d from sale. With a degree of success from both companies coming from the fact that the modchip had little \u201clegal\u201d use, despite arguments about homebrew and backups. PSGroove was just released. Its source code for the new PS3 Hack. Out in the open. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}