Sony's PlayStation 3 Successfully Hacked

[Rob Williams]

Earlier this week, I made a little rant about the fact that DRM will be seen in the upcoming BioShock 2. Like it or not, DRM doesn't seem to be going away, and as much as the game industry would like to ignore it, I truly believe that DRM plays a huge roll in persuading consumers to go pirate games instead. That might sound like a loaded statement, but look at it this way... when has DRM stopped someone from pirating a game? Never. How many people does it inconvenience? Everyone.

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[b1lk1]

To me, hacks and cracks like this serve nothing but an illegal purpose. While I am first to state that I believe that games and most software is overpriced, that fact alone does not mean we deserve it for free. I have nothing good to say about this. Again, as I have said before, hacking and cracking just adds to the cost as manufacturer's will just add it into the cost for those of us that don't use it.

 

[Yangster]

I personally don't own any consoles after the Gamecube, but I've heard that the Xbox360 scratches/damages the discs easily. If that's true, and you paid $50-60 for the game, I'd like a way to backup my games in case the disk got scratched. That's one argument I've heard for cracking a system.

I'm ignorant about hacking stuff, so I'm confused about the memory being hacked. I have no idea what memory addresses are. Why would that ruin online gaming?

 

[Kougar]

Once people have full access to the PS3's memory, they can pretty much eventually hack, crack, or modify ANYTHING the console does, from the running kernel to games, to disabling/modifying security and DRM related protections. It's the same principle on the PC, once a program has full access to your RAM it can use all manner of tricks to do anything it wanted.