The funny thing is that, for about 7 or so months, we succeded. Softmod piracy was impossible on the Wii using our exploits from about the October 23rd update to the release of BootMii (which broke all security, period).

Unfortunately, the idiots at Nintendo were too busy patching our homebrew-only exploits to care about the hacky, ugly, crappy exploit that the piracy scene was using. Sadly, to this date, this exploit remains unpatched. It truly seems like they’re too stupid to care about what piracy actually depends on. They just keep trying to Stop the Evil Homebrew Channel.

They had a chance at 7 extra months of a soft-piracy-free console (possibly more if they’d bothered to establish an amicable relationship with us, instead of harassing bushing). They didn’t take it.

Now, the Sony situation is just wrong. Sony have shot themselves in the foot in the worst possible way, not only by encouraging cracking their system by removing Other OS, but by actively pissing off former homebrew/OtherOS users. If there’s something that guarantees that homebrew developers won’t give a damn about whether they enable piracy or not, it’s illegally depriving them of the features they paid for.