So I bought mine and I find out I'm two bios revisions past what I need to be able to hack the crap out of this little device. You need 1.50 or below and mine shipped with 1.52 BAH! Apparently in 1.52 they implemented 3 different software control mechanisms and in 2.0 there are 4. There are rumors flying around that 1.52 has been cracked already and that two is nearly done but those are just rumors. {mosgoogle right}

What I don't get is why doesn't Sony just open it up. Maybe not to everyone but maybe pay a 1 time licensing fee to Sony to get the rights to do what you want, on average I think the people who would be willing to pay a large one time fee would outweigh those licensing costs that Sony would of earned, these ARE the same people that will just end up hacking it if you don't give them a legal way out. Didn't Sony learn from their Playstation Net Yaroze system that people will pay to be able to 'play'.

Sony charged 1k for the Net Yaroze which gave people an open interface to program and break their Playstations with, it was pretty successful considering nothing had been done like that in the industry. I personally would pay 500 to 1k to be able to openly hack up my PSP and I think others would to! What do you think? I think Ill put a poll up.

If Sony doesn't do something like this they lose out because ultimately we, the scene, will win. It has been that way since the beginning of computing.