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smells like bullshit, tastes like rainbows

The 'cracked PS3' pic is just geohot's pic.

I'm sure making backups of PS3 games has been possible for some time now.

The gap is in getting them to run. Has this been bridged?

edit - oh, and Versus XIII? Haxxored PS3s are AMAZING. geohot wasn't kidding when he said he had an awesome new power.
 
Is there any video? All I see is a bunch of paper cases and that hacked PS3 is just a pic from George Hotz's site.

(I can't read the site so if there is a link in there somewhere I do apologize)
 
wud you should edit your post. :(
 
Y2Kev said:
Pirates have been stopped on PSP.
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L. O. L.

Did Sony put some termites on the PSP games so they eat the pirates wooden legs?
 
Hopefully this is fake, Sony are usually one of the worst in terms of DRM. They were relatively cool about the PSP/PS3. If they both become unsafe waters, you know their next handheld and console will have super dumb DRM in it.
 
I think chinese pirates jumped the gun after the rumors of PS3 being hacked spread on the net and began to burn PS3 dumps on DVDs/blurays. I doubt anyone has made such a thing for PS3. I think the PS3 chinese pirates are getting scammed but not like I care.
 
deepbrown said:
That article is written in gobblegook...going to be a while until I crack that text...
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It wasn't till my second cup of coffee that I realized that the 1984 Edmonton Oilers were somehow involved in this.
 
gofreak said:
The 'cracked PS3' pic is just geohot's pic.

I'm sure making backups of PS3 games has been possible for some time now.

The gap is in getting them to run. Has this been bridged?

edit - oh, and Versus XIII? Haxxored PS3s are AMAZING. geohot wasn't kidding when he said he had an awesome new power.
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No, it hasn't. I've been casually following things, the only thing geohot's exploit has enabled so far is some drama between the people he gave his hypervisor dump to and the rest of the hackers. Blu-ray ISOs have been floating around for years on torrent sites, but they were improperly ripped, so even debug consoles couldn't run them.
 
Blank blu-ray prices are still pretty high so that should deter a lot of people, you have a couple of bad burns and you may as well have just bought the game. Couple that with the huge file sizes and its unlikely that piracy will flourish even with a successful hack.
 
Y2Kev said:
Pirates have been stopped on PSP.
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you made my day,

thank you good sir

on topic, it seems really early for them to be able to play backups. im no expert but this smells like bullshit
 
Versus XIII?

What is actually *in* that disc?
 
Y2Kev said:
I'll say "right" when BBS is hacked.
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It's ONE game, and it'll get patched soon enough.
Just about every other game is fully playable, and that now INCLUDES being able to play games online over PSN. At least, for select games, when last I checked.

The PSP pirates have barely been slowed down, let alone stopped outright.
 
Damn those filthy pirates, always get the games before street date -_-

Now they'll spoil Versus XIII's ending.
 
Ugh. The PSP's piracy problem is still totally out of control, I can only imagine how dire the situation will be on the PS3 in a few years if this turns out to be true. The 360 has a large(ish?) piracy problem but it still has incredibly strong software sales; the PS3 doesn't.

I fully expect Sony to brick modded consoles and rightfully so.
 
What exactly is the benefit of keeping GAF up-to-date on all the latest piracy developments and game dumps? I struggle to see the practical applications for this sort of knowledge to the law-abiding citizen, it just offers temptation to a large pool of people that they may never have had it if they didn't specifically seek it out, otherwise. It's flagrantly counterproductive to GAF's anti-piracy discussion policy, imo.
 
Photographs are "Big D" group on the primary sources of goods, in the author struggling with a cigarette plead + + the cost of a meal in exchange for the right of the shooting
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I absolutely LOVE google translations lol WTF
 
Its awesome watching attempts at pure con jobs when we know the PS3 has still yet to be hacked with the potential it may never be :lol That last one with the USB drive that magically hacked the entire thing to run burned discs was the best one though.
 
Shig said:
What exactly is the benefit of keeping GAF up-to-date on all the latest piracy developments and game dumps?
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Know thy enemy, I say.

Keeping abreast with these news gives me the oversight to argument where required.

I say bring on the news as long as it is proper and justified.
 
Have the PSP Go and PSP 3000 been hacked yet? If not, then for all practical purposes Sony has stopped PSP piracy (they can't really stop PSPs that could already pirate), if so, then excuse my ignorance.
 
Shig said:
What exactly is the benefit of keeping GAF up-to-date on all the latest piracy developments and game dumps? I struggle to see the practical applications for this sort of knowledge to the law-abiding citizen, it just offers temptation to a large pool of people that they may never have had it if they didn't specifically seek it out, otherwise. It's flagrantly counterproductive to GAF's anti-piracy discussion policy, imo.
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What precisely is the harm? Do you really think that someone who is going to buy a blu-ray burner and download >20 gig rips is so damn lazy that if GAF doesn't tell them it's possible to pirate, they won't?
 
I'm not convinced. The geohot reveal was a lot more believeable (even if it turned out he had achieved much less than he tought).
 
Colocho said:
Have the PSP Go and PSP 3000 been hacked yet? If not, then for all practical purposes Sony has stopped PSP piracy (they can't really stop PSPs that could already pirate), if so, then excuse my ignorance.
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The Go hasn't been compromised yet, to my knowledge, but considering its sales (and the fact that is has NOT replaced the 3000 at retail), it's not exactly the PSP's future. So long as the 3000 is at firmware 5.03 or below, it can rather easily run pirates games of all types. And there seems to be a promising new exploit for firmware 6.20 being developed that might serve the same purpose as the current 5.03 exploit.

In short, Sony's anti-piracy tactics have been blunted from certain angles, and defeated outright from other angles.

Edit - PSN games were hacked years ago. Stripping them of their licensing requirements and DRM is completely trivial.
 
From what I read some time ago there has been pirated games for a long time but it's not a huge market. They have been using a legal ROM-Mark but as it's pretty easy to follow up who the original ROM-mark comes from it's been a low market.

No idea if it's true but I guess it will be similar to the action replay thing that Datel did on the Gamecube with the signature of NHL.
 
Mejilan said:
The Go hasn't been compromised yet, to my knowledge, but considering its sales (and the fact that is has NOT replaced the 3000 at retail), it's not exactly the PSP's future. So long as the 3000 is at firmware 5.03 or below, it can rather easily run pirates games of all types. And there seems to be a promising new exploit for firmware 6.20 being developed that might serve the same purpose as the current 5.03 exploit.

In short, Sony's anti-piracy tactics have been blunted from certain angles, and defeated outright from other angles.

Edit - PSN games were hacked years ago. Stripping them of their licensing requirements and DRM is completely trivial.
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I don't think that's a fair summary. First of all, there is a difference between PSP1000/2000 piracy methods and PSP3000 piracy methods which have to be applied with every re-boot. The PSP Go has not been cracked and neither has the PS3. There are many things that Sony have done wrong this gen but their anti-piracy efforts have been bloody good on consoles and poor but improving steadily on handhelds.
 
SmokyDave said:
I don't think that's a fair summary. First of all, there is a difference between PSP1000/2000 piracy methods and PSP3000 piracy methods which have to be applied with every re-boot. The PSP Go has not been cracked and neither has the PS3. There are many things that Sony have done wrong this gen but their anti-piracy efforts have been bloody good on consoles and poor but improving steadily on handhelds.
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I was talking solely about the PSP, not the PS3.
It doesn't matter if the methods are different across hardware revisions.
The means are different. The ends are the same.
Also, the PSP 3000 method becomes a lot less of a pain in the butt if you judiciously employ sleep mode instead of full shut downs. It can still play just about any PSP or PSOne game via piracy, so from a Sony standpoint, that's by no means a win.

The PSP Go issue is practically irrelevant since sales are low and the semi crack-able 3000s are still a viable retail option. Piracy is still relevant and still quite possible. So ultimately, Sony is still failing. For now. It's always a bit of a tug-of-war, of course. But for now, the pirates are definitely winning.
 
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