Rumor: Hackers Crack PS3 Copy Protection
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As much as this sucks, I have to say, well done to Sony for keeping it hack-free for so damn long. Holy heck, several years is a pretty impressive run, much better than, say, Ubisoft's DRM 
If ps3 piracy was possible day one, they only would've sold more consoles.Syntax Error said:
I can't speak for everyone, but a good portion of 'gaming' PCs are built with the assumption costs will be offset by the fact game purchases aren't a pure gamble.
As far as the article... overly romantic much? Its software based computing. If it can be accessed, it can be modified. Now lets get to work on brain hacking.
360 piracy hasn't been reliant on hardware modifications for a couple years. Most games are burn and play.Straying Bullet said:
I just gotta add that hackers do not hack stuff to get free stuff especially the really tough nuts to crak like a ps3. Spending years on it for something that is going to be unwieldly to pirate for or hideously expensive to pirate for, many hackers do it to see if they can beat the beast. To see if they can top their peers that have tried to hack the same thing and to fight the power.
Now all that said bootleg shops in other nations are common place. People buy their pirated games from shops in many places for a fraction of the cost of the retail games. If this works those shops will be buying the burners and the disks and selling ps3 games along with the hack to people still probably well under what a legit sony game costs in those countries.
Will be interesting to see how fast firmware updates are forced on the ps3 to make this hack obsolete but older games could be ripe for the hacking, since they should run on any firmware that already exists and that this hack works on.
But for the typical home user i doubt this will ever become a do it yourself thing just because of the size of the games involved and the logistics of burning them, even if you can run them off the harddrive somehow that is a lot of time spending dling the thing if you need to put the whole disk image on your ps3 drive. And more than likely would would have to run your ps3 offline and loose any updates and dlc and multiplayer and newer games that require a update might not work at all with this hack and void any other games you have hacked.
Too soon to tell if or how well this thing would work at all or very long.
Now all that said bootleg shops in other nations are common place. People buy their pirated games from shops in many places for a fraction of the cost of the retail games. If this works those shops will be buying the burners and the disks and selling ps3 games along with the hack to people still probably well under what a legit sony game costs in those countries.
Will be interesting to see how fast firmware updates are forced on the ps3 to make this hack obsolete but older games could be ripe for the hacking, since they should run on any firmware that already exists and that this hack works on.
But for the typical home user i doubt this will ever become a do it yourself thing just because of the size of the games involved and the logistics of burning them, even if you can run them off the harddrive somehow that is a lot of time spending dling the thing if you need to put the whole disk image on your ps3 drive. And more than likely would would have to run your ps3 offline and loose any updates and dlc and multiplayer and newer games that require a update might not work at all with this hack and void any other games you have hacked.
Too soon to tell if or how well this thing would work at all or very long.
I think one of the reasons the PS3 got hacked last was actually the ability to run linux from the start. Most of the Wii mods are based on the homebrew channel which was developed to run linux on the Wii ( the Chaos Computer Club made some interesting videos about the developement of the homebrew channel)With the PS3 the hackers couldn't use the work from the linux community to develope there own mods.Calhoun347 said:
Regarding viruses for Macs: it's simply more difficult to program them. Under the old Windows systems (XP and below) the normal user would have administrato rights by default, whereas on a Mac the user is not able to get root access. It's the design of the operating system which makes it more challenging to run viruses
Sony will probably shut this down ASAP. They aren't about to lose that edge with game devs just when the tide is turning.
That is also true, but there is still the popularity factor.whattheblub said:
Also true, but if the market share ratio were flipped, you'd see tons of viruses for Mac's and almost nothing for windows. It's not worth it to make something DESIGNED to infect as many people as possible, in a place where it Can't do that.whattheblub said:
That isn't really an argument with any backing to it. You can blame the publishers for not making succesful methods of keeping piracy down, but in the end all of the blame must fall on the pirates, because if they weren't there the DRM wouldn't be there. DRMs are not a good reason to pirate games, they are simply a justification for the pirates to say 'yeah we might be breaking the law, but look at how nasty these big corporations are.' It's pitiful.graverobber2 said:
And also, in regards to cheaper games, you are referring to a group who pirated a game for which they only needed to pay a dollar, or whatever it was for that Indie bundle. While they may be ruining it for the honest gamers who I'm sure are in the minority, anyone who would pirate a game that cheap (and in many cases they actually cost the developers money by using their own servers remember), doesn't have a leg to stand on in my opinion.
Piracy on the PS3...I can see how some people would think that it wouldn't be popular due to blu-rays being a whole 50+ gigabytes, but not many PS3 games actually take advantage of a blu-ray's impressive storage size. A USB loader would most certainly be made by some guy allowing people to by a couple TB hard drives and put their games on that.
And as for USB disabling, Sony can't do that, as they advertised that feature as a part of the PS3.
If Sony were to release new PS3s that only allow certain licensed USB things to work, that would be totally legal.
As for updates that disable the mod or releasing new games that install a new update, They've tried that before with the PSP (Nintendo's done the same for the Wii) and it hasn't stopped pirates. They create bypasses, hack the official updates, disable any updates on games and play away.
If there's one rule that I have figured out about the internet, it is this. Pirates always win. You can slow them down but you cannot stop them.
And this is why I don't care about piracy when I release my stuff on the internet. Pirates don't buy my stuff, I don't get money from them, so why should I care about them? I only care about the people who pay for my stuff, so I make something that those people would like.
And as for USB disabling, Sony can't do that, as they advertised that feature as a part of the PS3.
If Sony were to release new PS3s that only allow certain licensed USB things to work, that would be totally legal.
As for updates that disable the mod or releasing new games that install a new update, They've tried that before with the PSP (Nintendo's done the same for the Wii) and it hasn't stopped pirates. They create bypasses, hack the official updates, disable any updates on games and play away.
If there's one rule that I have figured out about the internet, it is this. Pirates always win. You can slow them down but you cannot stop them.
And this is why I don't care about piracy when I release my stuff on the internet. Pirates don't buy my stuff, I don't get money from them, so why should I care about them? I only care about the people who pay for my stuff, so I make something that those people would like.
Quoted for considerable levels of truth. Pirate gamers are in this for no-cost gaming; the time and money costs of this venture make it far less desirable. Unless you've got a godly internet connection, the mere act of downloading the data, let alone porting it over to the console via disc or external memory unit, makes it impractical. Of course, this all assumes this is legit and not just another hoax. Either way, Sony has relatively little to fear, least until internet connections become more amazing or blu-ray burners & blanks become a lot cheaper.Arkley said:
Let's just hope that Sony releases an update quickly to prevent the software from working to lol @ all of the people trying to break the system.
Because that would make sense and would cost them money *rolls eyes* because obviously they couldn't make games any cheaper for one console otherwise that console would be more dominant in the market and would make them more money, but no, instead they choose to keep an arms race between the consoles and make massive profits from all rather than one...in short, Developers are evil souless money grubbing asshats.Joe Kilner said: