Using your PlayStation playing is fine. But what if you could use your Sony console to code with your AI agents on Linux? That’s what Fulu, a property advocacy organization, wants to make possible and is willing to pay $10,000 to prove it’s possible.

Led by YouTuber Louis Rossmann and fellow consumer advocate Kevin O’Reilly, Fulu pays bounties to the first person who proves they can fix or circumvent product features that Fulu deems hostile to device owners. Fulu contributes the first $10,000 and will then match donations up to another $10,000. Since it started in late 2025, Fulu has paid out two rewards so far: one for a repair of Google’s outdated Nest thermostats and another for DRM-enabled Molekule air purifiers.

On Tuesday, Fulu announced a bounty that would reward hackers who could disable Sony’s proprietary software locks on its PlayStation 5 consoles and, in theory, allow a user to install an operating system like Linux on the gaming console.

“Let’s make PlayStations again,” O’Reilly tells WIRED. “Let’s go back to general-purpose computing and understand that if we own the hardware, we should be able to put whatever software we want on it.”

In early July, Sony announced that it would end the production of physical discs for all new games on its PS5 consoles. The move was controversial and inspired consternation from gamers and advocacy groups, many of whom like physical media and have qualms about PlayStation’s terms of service, which specifically state that purchasing a digital copy of a game does not mean you own it.

“Many PlayStation owners are worried about what will happen to their consoles,” says O’Reilly. “They fear that they could be taken for granted at any moment.”

The current RAM shortage has raised the costs of all types of goods, including consumer technology like Sony consoles. As prices rise, Fulu wants to show that the way to weather that expensive storm is to find a new way to rely on the devices you already own.

“Game consoles have a significant amount of computing power,” O’Reilly says. “Why can’t I reuse that? If I’m trying to create vibrant code or set up agent AI systems, why can’t I use this box, this computer that I bought, that I have, to do what I want to do?”

Like all Fulu goals, there is a risk. Breaking a company’s software restrictions may run afoul of Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, legislation passed in 1998 that prohibits users from bypassing digital locks on software services. It is a law that is punishable by fines and even prison sentences.

To earn a Fulu reward, a person must prove they have a solution, but they are not required to reveal it to the public if they are concerned about facing potential legal consequences. That means that even if the PS5 jailbreak is achieved, it may not be available for people to use widely. Fulu says the idea is not so much to make this relatively specific use case possible for the PS5, but rather to encourage people to look differently at the control they have over their devices.

“Our property rights are constantly under attack,” O’Reilly says. “It’s time for us to have a conversation and get back to the idea that computers are computers and we should be able to use them however we want.”