The software isn't yours, you have a license to use it for it's intended purpose.
Even ancient consoles had this licensing agreement, I don't see why people just think it is OK to hack the Vita and that they have the right to roam free on it.
It's like you taking software I have written, changing a few lines to make it do something I didn't want it to do for a good reason, and then releasing that to the world without me, the code author's permission. It would still be my code, not yours just because you have it in your possession.
I can understand perfectly why Sony would want people not to hack their stuff, because like it or not, one of the first things always made for hacked consoles is a way to run the poor excuse of piracy that is 'backups'.
Want PSP games? Nearly all of you have PSPs...
I'm glad Sony are stopping it, the only reason PSP was so severely hacked was because of a massive error in firmware v1.50, which hackers used as a base for everything else.
Like I said before, the only real reason people hack their PSPs nowadays is for free games, under the dumb guise of calling them 'backups'.
Old games, like NES and stuff, fine. You can't even buy them anymore, so no harm done, no money lost for the company that slaved to bring out entertainment for you.
I've become more critical of software piracy as I have begun to program myself.
It takes. A long. Long. Long. Long. Time. To Make. A Game.
And if someone just went and took those thousands of hours of work for free? I'd be pretty pissed too to be honest.