http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10448137-17.html

Sony like M$ looses money on every console it sells.

poor sony,a unit that probably cost em 50dollars to build and slugging us a ridiculos amount of cash for it are crying cause someone hacked it,woopy woop,get over it,so you'll only make 3billion dollars profit instead of 5billion,get over it and let the people enjoy some fun

The reason I ask this is that I'm a distributed computing hobbyist, and it'd be great if I could run software OTHER than Folding@Home on my PS3.

Actually, even if they kick me off the PS3 network, I probably wouldn't care that much, since they'd probably still allow the ability to buy stuff. I mean they're capitalists after all, aren't they? Capitalists are hypocrites, which is a good thing in this case. For me, anyway.

I bought my PS3 to be a Bluray player, everything else is just gravy.

You must be new here.

It's used for Piracy, nothing more.

It will also lead to a console ban, as PS3 tracks the apps you run (including the backup manager) and uploaded it to Sony for the Trophycard.

it will be trivial for them to know if you have EVER used this ANYTIME you subsequently sign into PSN.

That is "source" not "sauce"!