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From: "J. Pretorius" <jpretori@home.net>
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Subject: Re: question about hackers realm of the psx
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 19:01:52 -0800
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The psx hackers certainly explore areas that the Yaroze community does not. For
example, I've seen code that supposedly controls the motors in the dual shock,
and some hackers have put together utilities to allow for the creation of CDs.
Before I even got my Yaroze I saw utilities to view Tims and play playstation
movie ('.str') files on the PC. However, I have never understood why anyone
would prompt for a hacked version of a Yaroze when the real version is so
inexpensive and convenient? 

The license agreement that we all signed is a formality, similar to the license
agreements that accompany many software packages. Sony wants to make sure that
it has all legal bases covered with respect to the Yaroze. Several years ago a
rash of really terrible non commercial software was released in Europe for the
Amiga platform. I never played any of these titles, but magazines reported that
there were "hate games" depicting violence against certain ethnic groups.
Imagine the consequences to Sony if a Yaroze member did something like that and
had the legal authority to distribute the game.

As for using hacked libraries etc, Sony may not recognize your demo or game
(i.e. put it on their web site) but they aren't going to sue you or revoke your
membership (IMO). 

Ben Siroshton wrote:
> 
> I am wondering what we, with our license agreement and all are supposed to
> do about the info that surrounds the hackers psx realm of coding?  I mean,
> alot of the docs from there are quite low-level.  I have only glanced at it.
> With this information staring at us in the face, are we supposed to turn our
> backs and pretend it doesnt exist?  I dont even know if its any good - but
> it might be usefull, if there is nothing wrong with us using it?  Any
> ideas/thoughts?  I dont know really, where I am going with this topic, but I
> thought it would be interesting to discuss. =)
> 
> thanks.
> 
> -ben