Current Events > Why is the GameFAQs stance on console hacking so hardline?

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The PSP store is being shut down in July.

YOU CAN'T BUY ANY GAMES FOR IT ANYMORE. What if you have a PSP Go? There's literally no way to load it without hacking it after that date.

Ease the fuck up.

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1990s mind set

the future is now old gamers

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i genuinely think a decent amount of people that are super dogmatic about that on here are mostly trolling

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I think it all comes down to DMCA. If a company finds material which infringes on their copyright - i.e. an unlicensed use of one of their songs, or a promotion of illegal activity that intentionally violates the EULA they mandate for users of their devices and enables piracy which affects their bottom line, they can ask a platform like GameFAQs to take it down under threat of litigation for the users and the platform.

Hosting illegal or illicit content can also affect AdSense, so if GameFAQs is caught hosting something that goes against AdSense's terms of service, this whole website can lose its entire revenue stream. TV Tropes had two major ad scares like that due to perceived NSFW content.

If you want to talk about homebrew or custom firmware or hacking, you need to find a platform that does focus on that sort of thing. This website wants to focus on "legitimate" gaming - anything beyond the word "romhack" is gonna get you moderated, because there's a lot for GameFAQs to lose.

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