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About LinkBacksRead more.Just a few days after Sony's announcement that it will ban pirates from the PlayStation Network, the hackers strike back.
Read more.Just a few days after Sony's announcement that it will ban pirates from the PlayStation Network, the hackers strike back.
Seems like a losing battle for Sony nowIt looks like you can very easily flash custom firmware to your PS3 now to play pirated games..without having to buy a "mod chip" etc (You can use your jailbroken iPhone to jailbreak your PS3..now that's genuis). If it really is as easy as the internet seems to make out, then it's very bad news for sony.
Constant cat + mouse time now...
The problem is that Sony and the likes continue to treat doing "whatever you want" with your machine as something evil.
Sony need to preserve their online gaming ecosystem by preventing hacked consoles using it. But that doesn't mean they need to prevent people hacking consoles.
If they took a more mediated line of "we can't stop you doing what you want to your console, but if you don't run the default software without hacks, we'll ban you off the PSN".
Better still would be to have a mechanism to prevent people logging into PSN while their console runs hacked software, but lets them on when they restore back to original software. Only problem with that is that it doesn't stop offline games piracy. Then again, why should a company have the right to assume that because you're doing something with your console that they didn't initially intend, that you're automatically running pirated games?
And of course, my proposal is supported by the fact that this would have been less likely to have come about if Sony hadn't pulled the "Other OS" feature which allowed people to fiddle about a bit.
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