Sony just axed the 60fps Bloodborne mod with a DMCA takedown

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Forgot they are dealing with Sony.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

One can see which torrents you share. So when they can't jail you for that - yes, but money makes laws.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

That'd be a Nintendo reference, yes? Though I think somebody else stole Wine code and was caught. No huge consequences obviously.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

That doesn't fix the problem here though, which is that a specific distribution source took it down.

[tilgare@lemmy.world]

Oh wow - that's something I was unaware of!

But then it is certainly the need for a jailbroken console that has Sony filing a DMCA. Sony has historically been ridiculously controlling and tight with their console software... I fortunately was pretty in the know and didn't upgrade my PSP software beyond the version range for running exploits - but there were periods of months where no progress was ever made on future versions. It was a very long, hard fought cat and mouse game. And another example, mod chip makers for PS3/4/5 have been repeatedly taken to court and dismantled by Sony.

[derpgon@programming.dev]

Lol, and Rockstar selling Midnight Club 2 (IIRC) on Steam shipping with .exe file originally cracked by RAZOR 1911(source)

[yttra@lemmy.world]

I think at this point that the dev has said only his website was taken down, solely because he used "Bloodborne" on it. The actual patch is fine, and can be freely shared, as I understand it.

And it's still accessible through the Wayback Machine soooo

[hexarei@programming.dev]

WINE is open source, so it's not stealing to use it

[redsnt@feddit.dk]

Like @[email protected] said, there's a flatpak PS4 emulator that makes it trivial to apply the patch, as demonstrated here.

[korkki@lemmy.world]

It makes sense in a way that it incentivises people to go and stay in sony's walled garden, like all exclusives do.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

Wish I could actually use the patch on my PS5. Or can I? Can you softmod the PS5 or would I need to buy something to solder to the mainboard?

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

They love it so much they don't want anyone else to have it or for it to ever change even slightly.