Hackers crack PS3 firmware

[chunkyboymania]

Weh hey Sony will never win the battle against the hackers. I might feel bad for them if the PS3 wasn't so exspensive.

Dark_Alex is the f**king man!

[your so random]

i wont mod my ps3 unless the homebrew is completely safe and copied dvds / games ruin the gaming industry
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[dandoc2]

meh -- i dont buy fakes or hack software

TBH its not my kinda scene -- unless your a tramp and cant afford games fine but im sure you could

Plus a £400 console and hacking it could break it

hmmm bit dumb

[vulcanraven01]

I can't see many people risk breaking a £400+ console.
Plus to play copied games you would need a Blu-Ray burner and blank Blu-Ray discs, all of which cost a bomb.

[Mogs]

Good. Piracy needs to be a platform-wide problem so that developers cannot shy away from developing for platforms which have piracy, thus crippling their portfolio (mostly talking about the PC).

[lmimmfn]

ive played cracked stuff before and ended up buying a lot of games because of it simply because not every game has a demo. I dont agree with the whole piracy thing but i dont disagree with it either, it will always be there and most consumers would buy the full title anyway. Also for online gaming for PC you need the full version anyway so youre still only getting a demo type game

Either way, Sony will do something annoying to prevent this, id easily buy a PS3 if i could use it en tirely without any preventation/security as a full Linux based PC
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[flenser_]

Good to see Sony have done their usual half-hearted job on security. They know that having a console that plays pirated games is the secret to shifting a lot of units.

Look at their previous efforts, PS, PS2 and PSP all pirate heaven.

I'm sure the four or five people who've actually bought the console are really pleased with this news as well.
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[madrandall]

Erm........homebrew is a bad scene. My addvice is not to touch homebrew unless you know exactly what your doing, because the risks arnt realy worth it

[vulcanraven01]

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[funkyjack]

this is hardly news, you can't even play a hacked game
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[bazzatuk]

[your so random]

its not worth doing unless you are REALLY REALLY GOOD at it. i wont risk it and probz never will, but a friend of mine can play games like super mario on his psp

also, so what if they can make copies but they don't work. its like saying a have a million pounds but i can't spend it, so whats the point. maybe sony did do a gd job of security.

and to the person that sed the 5 owners of ps3, i've played thousands of people online so there is a flaw in your argument (ill dumben it down for that person : YOUR BLANKED)
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[stalker ops dude]

if the ps3 get a severe problem with hackers. then maybe they will kill the damn thing like MS did with the xbox and make something equivalent of the xbox compared to the xbox360. and i men it! damn u even doubt that valve boss who say the thing is a complete miss! i mean who else have the expertise and have a such a great reputation as he?? very few! and he tells, and u yells!

i hope MS don't end up with a massive power in the console world because then we will just end up with xbox windows! because they get almost monopole!

well if your market is the average idiot then u meet that problem but the 360 got... well a audience with more brains than ex: wii who targets the average and severely normal person. and average people is idiots when it comes to electronics. so i am not that worried! but the wii gives me the chills! wii with its wiiDIOTS is turning gaming into something like movies where there are almost none AAA moves but s**t!!! loads!!! of horrid B movies! i don't want the wiiDIOTS to roam the world! and turn gaming into something like fotball. cos that would suck!

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[Bravo2Zero1989]

im starting to get sick of all this hacking custom crap, hackers are starting to be one of my most hated people in the world along those terroists prats, hackers is wats wrong with the world today, nothings safe, and to be honest, people that hack lik this Dark_Alex SHOULD GET A LIFE, i've never known soo much effort to b put in just to play copied and illegal games, and lik some of yous said, doing sometime lik this on a £400 console is soo stupid, wat are they going to do wen its broken, buy another one and waste another £400? if they do, they must be the most stupidist people i will ever known, i play people on syphon filter dark mirror and i recently found out the most of my buddies hav custom for thier psp, i keep saying that its illegal and it will break your psp, but one of my friend is TRYING to ENCOURAGE me to do the same, cus he says u get free games and get games that u can actually get on psp, also the internet browser is much better than the standard one, i told him that i will NEVER hack as its stupid and it will give you a bad reputation, i buy these consoles to play games, but to hack into them just to get games i want for free or get games that not actually an offical game for that system (lik mario for psp) is something that i will never do in my life
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[sober_days]

people modding hardware and software alike is always a good thing for the gaming scene look at games like unreal who encoraged the modding of the game, it helps to move things forward and add new stuff to make us want to keep playing games.

people who think 'hacking' is just about playing pirate games are very naive theres so much more to it than that, my favourite thing for my psp is the ability to use it as a game pad for my pc.

as long as your sensible put some time in to finding out what your actually doing and checking its worked for people before you should have no problems with modding.

when i spend my hard earned money on a console i want to be the best it can be and sometimes modding it is the only way to go.

i'd just like to add that as said before its not just sony consoles the orginal xbox had a far more active mod scene than the ps2.

[jamesrobertson24]

I can't understand why people would want to modify/chip their PS3 just to play a copied game It seems like a lot of hassle just to save a few quid.

I can understand why some people had the PS2 chipped in order to play foreign games that weren't available in the UK but the PS3 allows the user to play games from anywhere as the games are not region blocked (well at least at present).

The PS3 is a great console which has probably cost you £425 (unless you've bought it after the price cut) why risk losing a small fortune just for a copied game.

Support the development of new games BUY LEGIT

[hollywood111]

death of the ps3.......

[wassy2k]

If anything, this gives the PS3 a better chance of competing. History dictates that the most easy console to pirate on becomes the most successful...
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[sammyone]

What on earth is Flenser going on about?
He has invented one of the most flawed conspiracy theories of all time. The Playstation consoles have been exploited by hackers and pirates in the past, this is the only true comment they have ventured to share.

How does selling consoles alone benefit Sony in the PS3 era. They actually lose money on each console sold. To be fair the PSP hacking has actually proved to be a positive feature of the console... With homebrew and emulation opening up a scene on the portable system. But Sony has constantly tried to control the spread with firmware. As with the PS2 they took legal action against the modding scene rendering it impossible to obtain an altered console through regular channels. Microsoft managed no such measures. I can see wisdom in opening up a machine to homebrew..that way it would be easier to crack down in modders and pirates to show they only have one motive for attacking the machines protection. As well as setting out a scene for home made software and apps...although such things also could result in damage to a console. I realise this is a complex feature to impliment without making a machine vulnerable.

I can understand you have a corporate leaning and support companies like football teams or political parties regardless of their flaws.

Surely their are a wealth of subjects you can already use to belittle the various consoles. You don't need to lie.

[floor3013]

I dont think anybody would do this to a ps3. First of all, the blu-rays discs cost loads, and i dont anybody would want to kill a £300 console just to a save a few quid on games. Plus unlike some other consoles, i respect the ps3, and would not do something like this to it. Plus when you dont run pirate games, you get that feeling u have the 'real deal'.

[fadyawad]

guys, this console is not only selling in the US and europe, it's worldwide in some places, where 40$ for a game is not something you can easily pay each time, paying 400$ for the ps3 is not a little to, but you pay it once. all am saying is that may be game producers should consider a significant discounting on their prises after the game is released for quite a long time.