Hacker Unleashes PlayStation 3 Exploit

[rooket]

Kinda amazed the guy above couldn't see the circle. If you open the full photo, it is a very tiny red circle where the wire is going to the board. But what about the other wires.

I thought about the piracy aspect of this system a long time ago. The problems include: large isos, limited hard drive space, and expensive bluray media. I don't think it is going to be a huge threat to sony tbh. Plus the only people who are going to be doing this are people who wouldn't buy the games anyway (not meaning that makes it right, that is just how things are).

 

[BartG]

I wonder if this is Legal...? If crack games are made using his initial hack method, will that mean he can be implicated?

As for the hack, very smart...

 

[mitch074]

One very interesting aspect of that stuff is that it would allow Linux developers to finally use accelerated video and 3D on that machine, instead of the very limited video they get now, since the thing that prevented writing drivers for it is the inability to probe the hardware directly.

Expect stuff like media center, games (emulators) and such arriving for Linux on PS3.

 

[precariousgray]

[citation][nom]BartG[/nom]I wonder if this is Legal...?[/citation]

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when he bought his Playstation 3, he also purchased the right to do whatever the hell he wants with it.

 

[badaxe2]

[citation][nom]precariousgray[/nom]Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when he bought his Playstation 3, he also purchased the right to do whatever the hell he wants with it.[/citation]


Not harmful in and of itself, but just like illegal copying of digital media (movies, music, games, OS's, etc.), it is bound to be abused at Sony and its partners' expense once it's shared with anyone (as it has obviously just been).

If I bought Windows Vista, I didn't also purchase the right to, for example, pirate Windows 7 with it.

 

[precariousgray]

[citation][nom]badaxe2[/nom]Not harmful in and of itself, but just like illegal copying of digital media (movies, music, games, OS's, etc.), it is bound to be abused at Sony and its partners' expense once it's shared with anyone (as it has obviously just been). If I bought Windows Vista, I didn't also purchase the right to, for example, pirate Windows 7 with it.[/citation]
The question was whether he can be implicated in the creation of "crack games." First off, to my knowledge, I don't believe that console games are cracked -- but rather, the hardware on which they are run is modified to the extent that it can play simple copies of games, not produced on legitimate media. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, but it doesn't really matter, anyway, since the ability to possibly modify a console to the point where it can play cracked games, and actually pirating software are two entirely separate issues.

It would be similar someone who drew up the schematics for a rifle, then gave them to a company for free, which then actually produced the rifle, and then yet another person still acquired that rifle and did harm with it, then holding the original producer of the schematics accountable.

This is irrational beyond all bounds, which is probably why people were pondering it, since the human mind is so dysfunctional and inherently flawed. I certainly am glad I have to post comments such as these to fleetingly preserve my own sanity, as I am interminably mired within the depths of an unthinking, emotionally reactive populace. Please end my life so I don't have to deal with the fallout of your own.

 

[-unknown-]

[citation][nom]precariousgray[/nom]Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when he bought his Playstation 3, he also purchased the right to do whatever the hell he wants with it.[/citation]
Yes and no, it all depends how its interpreted by the court. Its not illegal to modify your own property but it is illegal to circumvent DRM (in the US). The bottom line comes to whether they (the lawyers) can prove the DRM was circumvented or not (modifying hardware does not necessarily mean you circumvented the part of the hardware intented for DRM).

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]tacoslave[/nom]too much trouble you should just buy the Nope the original xbox was probably the most hackable consoles ever and it didnt't even make half of what the ps2 made. Don't believe me? But the main thing is the games if you dont have good games than theres no point in hacking it. Although you do have a point the ps2 was hella easy to mod. Plus with a fat ps2 you could do anything.[/citation]
Well, wasn't PS2 also hackable? It levels the field.