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PS3 firmware cracked by hackers

Posted Jun 11, 2007 at 5:19PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Sony
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Pirates are on the job, arr! - Image 1The PS3 is holding well on its own against piracy, but the battle is still ongoing. Just as with any game consoles, hackers are working their way to mod the machine. So far, firmware versions 1.10 and 1.11 have been cracked to allow booting copies of PS3 games.

This is just a baby step, since the copied games only boot but don't play. Homebrew games won't run too, which is quite a pain. It already goes without saying that tinkering with your unit also takes away warranty. If you ever plan on playing with your firmware, consider the consequences.

Modded Xbox 360s and Wiis are already out in some pirate markets, allowing boot-leggers to play burned games. How long 'til the PS3 falls? Its predecessors didn't last much before illegal copies became playable.

Via CVG



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# Hmmm..Guest 2007-06-11 18:26
This kind of post makes me angry... really... anyway who make the law make the tramp... but I really don't like to see the ps3 at that... but oh well... I said to much about this before... so...

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# ...Guest 2007-06-11 18:38
For *****s sake, the PS3 is the only system which does NOT deserve to be hacked/cracked or whatever. Buy the *****ing stuff for it and support it. God dammit...

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# WOWGuest 2007-06-11 18:38
WHOS GONNA DOWNLOAD A 50 gb game? And spend 1,000 dollers for a blu ray burner and THEN buy a 25 doller blank blu ray disk just to play one backup copy???? NO ONE

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# if you can't affordQuixand 2007-06-11 18:43
to buy games then don't get console...



if you have other priorities in life that shelling out $60 for a game is not practical then don't get a console and just work on ur priorities...



i have never taken up a hobby, a sport, or any other recreation that i can't afford... that's why it's a luxury and not a necessity...

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# ps3 memoryGuest 2007-06-11 18:57
if it is hacked can you can just put games in the internal memory

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# Don't WorryGuest 2007-06-11 19:46
Tha prices will go down soon... same thing was said about the previous systems.... stop acting like gay fanboys and no i don't support illegal distribution but its ok for backup purposes.... think optimistic



hacking /= illegal

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# But stil..aZure 2007-06-11 20:07
I would never crack my PS3 firmware!!! I paid too much for it!!! Didd story for my psp, I got DARK ALEX OE 3.40 on that, but i don't boot up psp games with that... Psp game proces ae gone down here in SA (About R199 - bout 30$) so i never seen the need to download psp games... Anyway i love my psp and i'm glad sony has an online store here in sa since ps3 launch... Hust so you people know, X Box 360 was released last year and still has no live support for SA...

(SA=South Africa)

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# hacker-proofsenjutsu 2007-06-11 20:25
the ps3 won't be hacked since the games will need the new firmwares to play, like for the psp, with a difference... On the ps3, there will be a lot of games, and a lot of updates too... I know that for the psp, it wasn't that difficult, but 1.8g games take less time to download than a 53g game... Also, you'll burn the games or put it on the HD? Because if it's in the HD, you could only have one game at a time, and if you wanna burn it, you'll need a BD-burner... or a LOT of dvd and BD-split. But I thing that piracy always won in the past, so maybe the ps3 will also fall, at least the battle will be harder this time, lol (the security will grow with each firmware updates).

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# LOLGuest 2007-06-11 21:18
"PS3 firmware cracked by hackers"



I guess it was cracked by nurses...

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# They should focus on the 360 i meanGuest 2007-06-11 22:26
all the ppl dumb enough to follow them are all banned from xbox live. Its not worth it and bd burners are 1000. PS3 is hacked proof which is why they will have better sales then wii and 360 years from now.

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# noGuest 2007-06-11 23:02
now psp game ripped and compressed are 300MB and Sony are using only 25 GB BD. After few years they will use 50GB BD.

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# I D 10 TGuest 2007-06-12 00:50
most of you all are special olympians.

1) 99% of hackers do it for the challenge

2) just because it was "hacked" means everyone under the sun can do it

3) BD burners are 0 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106037

which is less that a ps3, and by the end of the year will prolly be less than 0

4) to the little fanboi talking about 360, first its made by M$ and second you are an idiot. kthxbi



Quixand and Tails4u2nv keep up the good work.

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# UnhackableGuest 2007-06-12 01:06
Don't you realize that Sony has hired hackers to purposely try to hack it. They see how good of an encryption system the PS3 has and challenges hackers to try to figure it out.



Remeber the "hack into the PS3 thru the web" contest that NOBODY won? PS3 is unhackable. Besides, if you can boot up the game but not play it, then it didn't boot! It's not hacked at all.



No gamesharks, codebreakers, or ARMAX's. That's proof enough.

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# wha?Guest 2007-06-12 01:11
This isn't the PSP son....

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# ermGuest 2007-06-12 01:27
It's really not that impractical. PS3 games are around 20 GB now anyways, and all one would need is a way to boot from the HDD, and a bigger HDD. I bet a game could be compressed to 3/4 at least by getting rid of movies.



It's immoral, wrong, and illegal...but it's possible.

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# ehmGuest 2007-06-12 01:34
Just because a console doesn't have a gameshark or anything doesn't mean its unhackable.



Remember fw 1.5 on psp? Better yet, 2.0. I saw at least 3 articles hailing it as "unhackable!"



PS3 will be MUCH harder to hack than psp firmwares, because sony has that experience, so I can imagine PS3 is roughly as secure as the latest PSP firmware now.

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# RE: WOWGuest 2007-06-12 02:50
That's what they said when backing when the PS2 was out. "Who would backup a 4.7 GB disk? And spend $400.00 dollars for a DVD burner and then buy a $10 DVD disk?" Obviously pricing will come down and hard drives will get bigger, it shouldn't be that hard to see.

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# RE: if you can't affordGuest 2007-06-12 02:52
Maybe some of us want to create and play homebrew games. Have you considered that?

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# .Guest 2007-06-12 02:54
Since there's only 2 decent games, you could spend that amount modding it anyway!



The point is, sony desperately needs that money, and if the console is pirated that could spell disaster for sony. Since quixand is a sony employee and fights for them to the death, (which will come soon) he is animately against piracy.

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# :)Guest 2007-06-12 03:46
It would be great to play homebrews :)



I'm glad blu ray is around 50gb so it's not cost effective for pirates :)

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# sparking propagandaGuest 2007-06-12 04:43
not trying to sound mean, but what is the relevance of posting this article

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# ...Guest 2007-06-12 04:49
why the ps3? why not the psp? everyone was happy to crack that.

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# homebrew games my assGuest 2007-06-12 04:53
stfu and be a man. you want free ps3 games. or should i say backups.

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# im angrier! wanna know why?Guest 2007-06-12 04:53
the news above is taken from CVG which was taken from QJ which is taken from uhm too many i forgot. these news sites just pass along the news from site to site, grab each others news etc.

about this hacking thing, where are those paradox geniuses that spoke out loud to the world that they have a working ISO loader for PS3, did they get greedy and just pirate the ps3 themselves or was it just vaporware and complete boast?

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# multipointsGuest 2007-06-12 05:00
homebrew? havent you played enough homebrew on your PSP? home brew on PC, PS2, DS, GBA, GC, Xbox, PS1, DC? why dont you just admit you support piracy, i do! piracy is a dual edge blade, it takes some money that is supposedly for the game developers but its gives TONS of sales for the consoles, just look at ps1 and ps2. and the wii and xbox 360. even if you pirate games, you still need to buy the original Console. and more consoles means more developers wanting to create games for it. again PS1 and PS2. super pirated yet super successful.

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# Mixed feelingsGuest 2007-06-12 05:31
I have an unmodded first gen PS2 and I can play all my PS2 games on it via Harddrive and network adaptor...



Honestly, for the past few years I have stopped using my PS2 for such a long time...until I found an mc exploit and Im so happy that PS2 can do more things. No need to burn anything, and my friend lends my a copies of his games and install it on the harddrive...Gta runs so smooth on it...I also have download torrents and yes it works as well. I run homebrew apps that can play streaming divx/mp4 videos from the harddrive or on my network. In conclusion, the amount of money I spent on it back in 2000 now has worth value for me to use and not just to collect dust...



With this PS3 issue, I give props to those guys that really try hard. Even though I'm not planning to buy it soon but the amount of things you can do with it is way more than the PS2.



Just my opinion...

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# ....Guest 2007-06-12 05:38
i bet this the big news of june 11..........

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# .Guest 2007-06-12 05:48
The PS3 deserves to be pirated more than any other system. Sony steals technology from other companies (blu ray coating and copy protection, rumble) so it's only fair people can steal their technology and games. Come on hackers!

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# .Guest 2007-06-12 05:51
You could get a stupid 25gb PS3 game down to 6gb if you wanted to. Just compress it and delete the redundant data. Oh no you need that blu ray storage space! Well just re-copy it a couple of times and un-zip it to the least efficient format available.

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# dsafasdGuest 2007-06-12 06:05
Re: mr toasty (Unregistered) - 4 hours ago

» ehm



Just because a console doesn't have a gameshark or anything doesn't mean its unhackable.



Remember fw 1.5 on psp? Better yet, 2.0. I saw at least 3 articles hailing it as "unhackable!"



PS3 will be MUCH harder to hack than psp firmwares, because sony has that experience, so I can imagine PS3 is roughly as secure as the latest PSP firmware now.





lol@mrtoasty



i agree that the ps3 is not 'unhackable'



but to say.. 'roughly as secure as the latest psp firmware' lol

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# ....Guest 2007-06-12 06:12
this da big news of june 11 !!!!!!!!!

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# people complainGuest 2007-06-12 07:03
With my internet connection i could download a blu-ray game in an hour or 2.



Just like the psp where you went from umd proprietary to iso's on a mem stick, blu-ray can go proprietary to network transferable. It's all about the coding guys.



Verizon Fios + newsgroups + highly hacked firmware = fast downloading, easy transferable blu-ray games.

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# my opinionGuest 2007-06-12 07:25
I don't see the reason to hack the PS3. The games are just to massive and in the long run, its not worth it. Considering I paid a whopping 0 for it, I don 't want it to be ruined and then my warranty void. And all the pirated games, that could possibly appear would just keep taking the money Sony needs to make all their games, so in turn the games would be *****. With the PSP though, that's a different story, since its not AS expensive, and not as hard to hack and stuff. I support homebrew, and I think it's great to have it, and in my opinion Sony should allow it on both the PSP and PS3, just not pirated games. The homebrew would encourage people to write their own games at early stages which in return could make better next-gen game developers so we would have even better games than now! Homebrew is a great future for home consoles and handhelds alike. Oh and Sony needs to add in-game XMB access. just had to throw that out there. lol.

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# Piracy rulesGuest 2007-06-12 07:27
Damn, I can't wait to get a propper firmware hack!!!

Finally playing backups!!

It won't be long now

Keep up good work modder



Never forget, a consoles succes lies in its moddability!

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# editGuest 2007-06-12 07:29
**whopping $600**

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# "Guest 2007-06-12 08:24
its clearly not

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# PiracyGuest 2007-06-12 08:38
I have to ask, who are the biggest manufacturers of DVD Copiers etc... They provide the tools for their own downfall or are they raking money from playing both sides of the fence.



'Me thinks the lady protests too much!' (Shakesphere)

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# lolGuest 2007-06-12 08:44
"PS3 is hacked proof which is why they will have better sales then wii and 360 years from now. "



Lol how many times have i heard the phrase "Hack proof" Lol you make me laugh. Nothing is and never will be hack proof. Remember all the hype bout HL2. Steam made it hack proof supposedly. Well guess not cause I was playing a haced version the day the game was released.

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# RE: WOWGuest 2007-06-12 09:13
Yeah I know right. Well I would like to see whos going to download a 50 gb game. And from what I can see your all better off bootlegging XBox 360 games because the most they go up to is 9 gb. Could you imagine how many months its going to take to download a 50gb game? People just buy the game because downloading ps3 games is stealing.

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# NopeGuest 2007-06-12 10:04
Was 3.50 cracked.Nope. Was the new TA-086 motherboard cracked as well. Nope. You guys can downgrade but it's thanks to Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories. No wonder Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories is the best selling PSP game. I find it hilarious when I read somebody saying "oh just a small number of us pirate the games" Then you check out the torrents and the number of seeders and leechers are trough the roof. And every person I have ever seen playing a PSP I always ask the same thing. What you playing there? Response "oh I'm playing blah blah" Then I say how much did it cost you. And I always get the same response "Oh I downloaded it I don't plan on ever paying for a PSP game" Even my sister pirates the ***** out of the PSP. I think I'm the only person in this world who actually pays for his games. It's funny because the PSP has sold around 24 million units worldwide. Yet when a big game comes out for the PSP it barely manages to sell at least a million units. What's up with that?

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# Can you believe this guy?Guest 2007-06-12 10:10
What the hell did you buy the console for if you can't afford the games. And I know that you pirate the ***** out the PSP as well. I remember you bragging about that a little while ago. You said that you love pirating Sony. But you actually enjoy buying Wii and 360 games. This guy just gave me a great idea because he loves pirating the ***** out of Sony. So what I'm going to do is buy a Xbox 360 and pirate the ***** out of it.

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# Piracy rules againGuest 2007-06-12 11:56
O for shure, and I do it with the ds as well man! ;-)

But don't wory I will always use Sony B-Rs!



Money is for Blackjack, Beers an Hookers...not for videogames!

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# thinkGuest 2007-06-12 14:38
just think of the 60gb hard drive for ps3 as the 32 mb stick for the psp , if you want to play isos you are going to definitely buy an 80 dolllar 300 gb hd (4gb memory stick) for your ps3 (psp) ;)

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# PS3 is hardest next gen console to crack?AuDioFreaK39 2007-06-12 14:58
It looks to me like has been holding out against the hacker community longer than its competitors at Nintendo and Microsoft. Perhaps Sony finally got it right with their BD+ encryption and "irreversible engineered" firmwares?

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# Mr .(unregistered)Guest 2007-06-12 14:58
3.50 was cracked

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# to xsx:Guest 2007-06-12 15:13
you could buy a bigger hard drive and store the games there, also you could download the isos directly in the ps3 in linux (for educational purposes ovbiously), right now downloading is not a problem since we have 4mbps+ connection, you leave it in the night downloading.

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# PS3 Fantard :Guest 2007-06-12 15:15
they're called shared patents

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# FIRST MR U dONT't know sh|t what u R talking about!Guest 2007-06-12 15:37
Nothing is unhackable! There is only one main rule for hackers... and that is the only rule that all hackers... or at least real hackers think about!

If there is a lock there is a Key! everything is with its time... so in a few months from now... U will be with your mouth opened and thinking how dumb u sounded when u said it was unhackable!

And By the way... u ppl talking about its not affordable have u guyz notice that all new pc's or most of them come with a blueray recorders? U kids think u are big computer knowledge dudes and u only play games... don't even look at the big picture... look around ya and stop playing just games.

And here for all you piracy lovers... China is number one in the black list for piracy .. ya know why? because china don't pirate like u wankers that stay home jerking off and play games all day long... and burn discs . they actually have fabrics like the retail one that copy their games! I live in china and i buy my X360,Ps2 U name it games ... for less than 1 Us buck and nicer than the real one!

When the Ps3 is hacked for real (cause all that iso loader mambo jumbo is just a bunch of bull if there was one it would be out for a long time!... ) there will be PS3 games all over the place to buy! cause there will be a fabric producing Bluray discs!

And this is for you retailers... stop selling games so *****ing expensive and piracy will stop being like it is... Makes no *****ing sense paying 50bucks for a game...

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# Xbots like PS3 fantard should shut up...Guest 2007-06-12 17:40
1) They extrapolate other people's claims and puts it forward as fact. Case in point - "Sony stole bluray coating, copy protection, rumble" Rumble was something that both Sony and MS infringed on, that's a given. The coating and copy protection "lawsuits" are just from companies trying to make a quick buck (a la Church of England)



2) They are oblivious (or choose to turn a blind eye) to the stealing done by other companies, namely Microsoft - their favourite company; which could do no wrong... (yet it "steals" just as much, or MORE than Sony) I don't wish to go into examples of what MS has stolen over the years but one thing that started off as "stolen" ideas has a name starting with Win and ending with dows.

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# ...Guest 2007-06-12 18:34
Sony is a big corporation and im sure that pirating isnt going to destroy them, its part of business. Nintendo and Microsoft have the same exact problems with pirating.

Though nothing can be hacker proof, I do believe this will be difficult to completely hack. They have a bit of experience with the PSP firmwares, but of course, this is a PS3, and is not the same thing. As for the ones saying that they can keep updating the firmwares and have games require the most up to date firmwares, think about the PSP. Once a firmware is cracked, people create custom firmwares that can be installed which hold the identity of the most recent firmwares, and at the same time, holds all the flaws of the cracked firmware. Updating firmware will not help stop it from being "hacked".

And yes, PS3 games may be large files to download, but that is why we have torrents. On good torrents, I get about 5-10GB of data downloaded a day. Within a few days, you can have your game downloaded. Its really not a problem. Transporting the file may be an issue though, im sure it can be done through a network, PC-PS3, or maybe you can just buy a external hard drive for your PS3. When it is able to run homebrew, that opens doors to compatability. Transportation of these big files is possible, its just a matter of time till the best method is revealed.

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# 50gb? wtf u talking about.hordak 2007-06-12 19:37
I haven't seen any games that are anywhere near 50gb to download. Need for Speed is the biggest at 23gb, only take a few hours to get. Blu-ray prices are slowly dropping, just like DVD's a few years back.

PS3 needs hacking more than any of the others, the game quality so far doesnt justify paying £50 each.

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# :)Guest 2007-06-12 22:16
Well ill be buying a pack of 5 RW disks, and just keep switching between them, With a 24mbit download and 2TB on diskspace on my pc i wont be having any problems soon :)



Just buy a 500gb harddrive that you bring to someone you know who has a BR burner and burn some RW disks @ his place.

Total cost ~150USD and then you will always have 5new games to play :)



backups of course *cough*

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# ololololoGuest 2007-06-12 22:23
Not sure if the idiots whining about the size of the games have been reading up on this. But on the video they are using a bluray image burned on a normal DVD-r...



Some games that fit on DVD-R or DVD-DL include:



Pirates of the Carribbean: At Worlds End

Spiderman 3

Virtua Fighter 5

NBA 2K7

F.E.A.R.

NBA 07

NBA Street HomeCourt

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Mobile Suit Gundam - Target in Sight

Pro Baseball Spirits 4

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion

NHL 2K7

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII

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# yeahsGuest 2007-06-12 22:27
Paying 50 pounds is a ripoff; Europe in general gets raped in the ass in video game prices.



But for the USA, 50-60 dollars for a next gen game is not expensive. If you do some real research, instead of ***** about the price, you find out that game companies make about a dollar per game during it's release. It takes money, lots of it, to develop for a new console. If a game is expensive, just don't buy it; the prices will drop sometime in the future. There is no excuse for piracy.

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# to quixandGuest 2007-06-13 01:44
I agree..it is a luxury and it is something you cannot get that easily. Even sony knows that and they are not forcing you to buy their console or not, it is your decision. If you can't afford it, then don't plan of having it. As for the ps3 games, sure you can download it if you have a very fast connection and compress it to use smaller space on the hdd, but removing movies and other stuff to make the file even smaller??! I thought you guys want reasonable content for the price you will pay when you buy the game..? Look at piracy on the other and previous consoles, sure you have many games for free but do you play and finish them all? I guess not . I don't mind paying for a game if it is really good and I get only the ones that I really wanted.



The issue on blu-ray games being pirated is not how big the file size the game contains today but how big it will be when the better games come out.



Homebrew on the ps3 can also be done with linux and is more legal. The only problem is sony is trying to limit the use of the ps3's power on linux so it will not create a hole for hackers to get through.



I know hacking is great but in a positive way to use the console's potential but it destroys the quality of games developed. .. I mean who would want to spend more creating better games if they know they will not gain enough profit? It's just common sense..



I hope I haven't offended anyone, and if I did, I just saying my thoughts....

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# ...Guest 2007-06-13 11:36
just because it can fit on a dvd doesn't mean it will boot from a dvd. it seems sony is pushing blu-ray as the only format for games and i read somewhere that the ps3 will reject a game on a dvd.

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# PS3 and PiratingGuest 2007-06-23 06:28
To be honest, I've pirated a buttload of PSP games. Like a whole lot of people. PS3 I wont pirate though. I bought the console for the games, the experience, and the educational benefits (I cant wait to crack open that shiny case..) I don't pirate PSP or PS1 games anymore because I have noticed that PSP's games are lackluster.. the storage capabilities of UMD is pathetic. BRMD (Blu-Ray Mini-Disk) for PSP2 ?



I would like to see a better Web browser, better media organization, E-Mail capabilities, and maybe be able to copy my PS1/PSP games (legal copies of course), allowing XMB compatible media players like XBMC. (XMB is sweet, but it's difficult to find what you want, when you want it)



Firmware hacks are going to be something I keep a close eye on, because Sony is seriously lacking when it comes to a 100% overall media center.

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