Things can get to bad to worse this week when Sony’s own Kevin Butler re-tweeted the METLDR root key. Twitter user exiva tweeted to Kevin Butler the PS3 root key disguised as a Battleship challenge, and little to Butler’s knowledge he retweeted the entire code. The tweet has obviously been removed, but you can see the screen shot of it below:
Maybe Sony needs to investigate Kevin Butler as an potential PS3 hacker 
02-09-2011
01:54 AM
YES!! Ha, U rock Mr. Butler
02-09-2011
01:55 AM
this is pretty funny. Hope Kevin Butler doesnt get fired over this since his ad campaign really was the start of good ads for sony
02-09-2011
01:58 AM
f*** ya thats whats up
02-09-2011
02:01 AM
46DCEAD317FE45D80923EB97E4956410D4CDB2C2
metldr:
erk: C0CEFE84C227F75BD07A7EB846509F93B238E770DACB9FF4A388F812482BE21B
riv: 47EE7454E4774CC9B8960C7B59F4C14D
public: C2D4AAF319355019AF99D44E2B58CA29252C89123D11D6218F40B138CAB29B7101F3AEB72A975019
private: 00C5B2BFA1A413DD16F26D31C0F2ED4720DCFB0670
curve_type: 0x20
See the difference? Right, so update that startpost
02-09-2011
02:06 AM
is it real? can anyone confirm that this is a real post or is it a spoof on Keven ButLicker? and why would they post this if they are sueing other sites for doing the same thing I'M SOOOOOOOOO CONFUSED LOL
02-09-2011
02:12 AM
Bit of a let down... From the title I expected something like Kevin Butler making a stand against Sony's suing everyone they can in regards to this whole thing. Still funny though.
02-09-2011
02:13 AM
Lol, it's "real" post. Though that $ony guy thought it is battleship game in which you have coordinates like A5, C8, something like chessboard, you setup ships on some coordinates, enemy on his, and you both try to hit each other ships, first to hit all enemy ships wins - google rest info about this little notebook game (since you can play it any place, with pen and piece of paper, ie: on boring lesson)
02-09-2011
02:53 AM
Everyone saying kevin butler this kevin butler that, do you know that he's a fucing actor paid to fool everyone with jokes and **** about the beautiful $ony world??? Did you know that and feel good with the money invested in this cheap trick instead in awesome games to play on the console and other stuff useful for the end users?
02-09-2011
03:52 AM
haha b4 the court cases and suing, people were spelling sony the normal way, now that we know that they are as money hungry as m$ we all spell it like this $ony.
and great battleship moves lol he probably didn't realize he just leaked $onys root key. thats how secure $onys ps3 is lol
02-09-2011
03:58 AM
we use to love sony !why they had to mess with us
02-09-2011
04:19 AM
there are almost 50 million ps3's sold as of jan 2011, which is also xbox 360s sales figures too.
last year on xbox 360, pirated games were detectable, and EVERYONE who ran a pirated game got banned, the ban wave caught 1 million consoles which were banned from xbox live.
that means that 1 in 50 of us play pirated games. which is very small considering how many consoles are out there. so 1 in 50 of us probably run backups with cfw.
piracy doesn't not hurt. in fact it doesn't make a difference at all, if a person is not willing to pay £40 for a game, then the person never will. a recent study proved that to be true.
Now that 1 in 50 will still respect the industry and will pay for the games they like, i know i do. Infact i may download a leaked game just to play it early, and i have custom firmware just because i like to open up the potential of ps3 rather than the limited & downgraded access we have had.
$ony are getting way too greedy when the truth is that it doesn't effect their market sales, this is the same with illegal music downloads.
02-09-2011
04:31 AM
could be reverse psychology.. sony is so.. ughh!!
02-09-2011
04:48 AM
02-09-2011
05:06 AM
@makeveli101
You're the 2nd person I know here that believes in this perspective uses this analogy or you might be the same person I replied to back then. Let me point out some flaws in your logic:
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Every outfit out there wants to profit in one form or another. Even purely humanitarian efforts hunt for a profit of ideals in spreading their goodwill. The only human that doesn't want to profit is either insane or dead. Calling out a company for being greedy in a time of hemorrhage due to a total loss of property (PS3) as opposed to seeing it as damage control, albeit desperate, on their part; needs adjustment.
One can imagine, future iterations of consoles to have no more open features that will allow system compromise such as those that employ gaming in the cloud instead of delivering games in a physical media or interfacing with peripheral devices over the air instead of providing ports and other physical media that can physically connect to the console itself. I for one want to own something tangible but the way things are going now, the business model will move away from its current form. All the features lost that we ***** about like OtherOs will certainly not be around in the future and though Sony was wrong to take it away the way they did, they certainly will not be at fault for not providing such a feature in the PS4 etc.
P.S. I really don't get why topic posters try to incite "hate" and urges to ridicule within readers through the verbiage employed within the topic posted. There's a lot that can be said about presenting and distinguishing ourselves through fair play and intelligent criticism. Sure, Sony has done a lot of ill-advised moves throughout the years but they're not the only ones to blame in this mess, are they? And we should rise above and be the betters of our "opponents", should we not?
02-09-2011
05:34 AM
Guys look what i found, this guy posted this on another forum:
02-09-2011
07:00 AM
i like this guy. haha
02-09-2011
07:46 AM
This is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen.
02-09-2011
08:27 AM
that is not the metldr key... its the service mode dongle key...
02-09-2011
08:37 AM
is this code is more confidential then a nuclear lunch code? it's so crazy...
02-09-2011
09:40 AM
What is this code? and is it useful?
02-09-2011
09:44 AM
noob lol:aetsch:
02-09-2011
09:50 AM
02-09-2011
11:25 AM
That's Sony in a nutshell:
"You sank my battleship!"
Their battleship is sunk.
mid-1980's: cartridge console business destroyed by the popular C64, where almost every game was rampantly pirated but also more copies were sold.
late 80's/90's: cartridge consoles make a comeback by being super cheap.
90's: less secure optical media consoles drive cartridges back into oblivion.
last gen: easily hacked ps2 becomes most popular console in history. Piracy runs "rampant" but publishers sell more titles and more copies than anywhere else, and they haven't stopped yet.
current gen: easily hacked Wii is most popular console. Difficult-to-hack ps3 sits in last place for 4 years, failing to land a title in VGChartz's all-time top 100 except MW2 (well behind xbox MW2 and pc MW2). Publishers who whined about console security show their thanks by making their titles multiplatform anyway, or making exclusives for xbox.
platform flexibility => consumer interest in platform => demand for games.
less flexible platforms only sell well when they are substantially cheaper than their competition. That's why the NES sold well.
Manufacturer control of the product is a far more entropic thing in economics than piracy will ever be. Nobody wants to buy something with a ball and chain attached to it.
02-09-2011
11:49 AM
If Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo were loosing so much money due to piracy, they would not be in business. Any company no matter what they sell. If loosing money constantly for 15 years. Would not be in business.
PC games/apps have been pirated since day 1. Yet companies that make games/apps for PC are still around. So there must be money to be made.
02-09-2011
11:53 AM
02-09-2011
11:54 AM
"Consider this. If it were impossible to pirate, then everyone who WANTS to play a certain game will be forced to acquire a legitimate copy or live without the experience forever. Consumerism is akin to the Laws of Energy where piracy is entropic."
Yea, that's a lie. I had my console for 8 months without even having the knowledge that the PS3 was hackable. I bought it used and mostly got it because it was a really good price and only slightly more than a blu-ray player of equal quality (what I really wanted). I wanted to play a lot of different games in that period but there was no freakin way I was going to shell out $70 for a new game; which is a little less than half of what I paid for the console!! So, I didn't buy a SINGLE game in that time period. I just rent or have my friend rent for me (who works at a well known video chain and gets free rentals). Either way, I can play a whole game through and only pay about $6 for it. I doubt Sony is getting any of that money (a small fraction, at best).
So yea, I thought it was impossible to pirate on the PS3, there were games that I really wanted to play, but I did not buy any games. That doesn't seem to line up with the conclusion that you've drawn.
02-09-2011
12:11 PM
Wow!
02-09-2011
12:23 PM
will Kevin Butler get subpoenaed along with everyone else?
02-09-2011
12:33 PM
"thatguy - 02-09-2011 11:53 AM
Why would $ONY post this unless its some sort of TRAP to get DEV's to BRICK hundreds of ps3's again as a way to shut down the CFW scene but i could be wrong and if its real then what can it be used for or maybe its an alterd code for 3.56 and if used will cause your ps3 to auto upgrade to 3.56 and patching anything and everything that could be used to hack the ps3"
I'm kinda thinking this, too
02-09-2011
12:38 PM
sony didn't post it! kevin butler being a noob that he is retweeted it!
02-09-2011
01:01 PM
He is just an advertisement mascot, with virtually no technical knowledge of the PS3, he could not have known what that code was for...
However... While D3, D8, E4 etc could sink your battleship, numbers like 95, EA, DC and 45 do not even exist on the Battleship playing field!
Of course he shouldn't get fired over it, 1-he didn't know and 2-this is code that everybody already has easy access to. So really we should all chuckle and move along. :P
02-09-2011
01:02 PM
SUE HIS A$$!!!
gahahaha.
02-09-2011
01:07 PM
Enough of the useless news i wanna hear something good like
"NEW CFW 3.56" or "A NEW WAY TO BYPASS PSN FW 3.56 CHECK" i miss being able to play online but im not going to kiss $ONY's A$$ to do so. All im asking is for the devs and hackers out there with the know-how to get moving on some kind way to get back online thats all.
02-09-2011
01:07 PM
they should rename sony to son y? son Y are you buying this piece of S@#T. :musicus:
02-09-2011
01:08 PM
The defense could subpoena Butler and insist he hacked the PS3.. I'd believe it
02-09-2011
01:14 PM
Our job is to give news and help people and that is what we are doing!
02-09-2011
01:38 PM
fist of all if this is indeeds $ony's doing to tell people that so and so to leave sos because they are a hacker, then that is in mu opinion illegal. and can be sued for such a thing they also can be sued for harassment, among other things. If If $sony where to do that to me, I would have there head on a platter.I also have recordings that state there CSRS have said that there has been nothing wrong with the 3.56 update that had created major problems for the PS3 ..I am preparing to send those to the FTC. as that is dishonest business practices.
as for that Posting..SCEA now runs the risk of losing the lawsuit..hasd any one updated the tourney with that evidence? I am foing to send it to them that is for sure.
02-09-2011
02:48 PM
Lmfaooooooooo
02-09-2011
05:14 PM
fist of all if this is indeeds $ony's doing to tell people that so and so to leave sos because they are a hacker, then that is in mu opinion illegal. and can be sued for such a thing they also can be sued for harassment, among other things. If If $sony where to do that to me, I would have there head on a platter.I also have recordings that state there CSRS have said that there has been nothing wrong with the 3.56 update that had created major problems for the PS3 ..I am preparing to send those to the FTC. as that is dishonest business practices.
as for that Posting..SCEA now runs the risk of losing the lawsuit..hasd any one updated the tourney with that evidence? I am foing to send it to them that is for sure.
You and I definately need to speak of your speeeellliinngg
02-09-2011
06:43 PM
hey have an of us thaught about calling the attorney and telling them thanks for trying to support the consumer and there rights..I just did.. I gave them a heart felt thanks. and they really can use it.
I am all for our freedoms and liberties, I know that this goes beyond hacking, this goes right to cooperate abuse. And it is unfair and unjust to the consumers.
and We at least need to take the time to say thank in some way.
Sony has became to big, and there playing a power trip.
may be its time we at least say thank you for what geohot is doing.
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I know my bad spelling is my signature..but joking aside, I am suffering from a very sore elbow atm. and am typing with one hand.
02-10-2011
01:09 AM
Super LoL...I guess Sony has to sue him now.
And yes...we sunk your battleship!
02-10-2011
11:07 AM
just lol....