Sony wants to make the PS3 a closed platform, and therefore will deactivate the OtherOS feature in their next update (3.21) dated for the 1st of april for all consoles.
Open platform is history.
For persons that don't want to update, they will remove PSN, games downloads and possibly even the opportunity to watch BDs.
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To provide a more secure system for those users who are enjoying games and other entertainment content on the PS3 system and also to protect the intellectual property of the content offered on the PS3 system, we have decided to delete the feature to address security vulnerabilities of the system. We do not comment on other details since this is a security related issue, however we are continually looking to improve the security level.
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