I have come up with a conspircy. Its probably a stupid one but i think its kinda funny in it's own way...

Okay, so here it is:

Sony, wanting money as we all do, figure that they have made a mistake in making the PSP limited in usage and fearing homebrew making security patches etc... Sure, it can play music and you can watch cool movies and surf the interent. They also want to sell PSPs. So, they came up with a plot of making specific loop holes in hope that others will try to exploit them and possibly brick their PSPs and be forced into buying more. They have since made an attempt at making us think we are battling them in a war with piracy and homebrew. When you think about it, it is usually other companies making the games and accessaries to sell and not Sony.

Actually, this sounds like balls*** now its in words lol...

What do u think

not a bad thought. but if that was the case there would be alot more bricks out there and no pandora

I suppose so, thanks uvstr

i don't think so, as far as sony's concern they don't want to get hacked that's why they release new security patches for their new firmware, bricking is just a result wherein they wanna show the consumers that their psp will end up bricked when they tried to hack it so that they won't attempt to make such thing... well it's your theory, who knows you might be right

I'm pretty sure that Sony gets some kind of royalties from third-party developers, or payment from the SDK and licensing at least.

Well, imho, i don't think Sony does create loopholes with intention to increase sales. afterall, a bricked psp that does get returned via warranty technicalities end up back to Sony, so it's kinda their loss too. Software & hardware development does not come cheap, and if some loopholes do make it thru the quality control check, i guess Sony was well aware of it in the first place but just took the risk. maybe they thought the exploitable part gave way to a far better feature... well, idk, that's just me thinking out loud...