PS3 has its LV0 decryption keys published, hacking wide open again

[TinCow]

If this hack enables fake-signed games available online for the general public, it is a big deal. Publishers will complain loudly if they lose sales and have to pay the PS3 license fee for the privilege. Given the high price of console games (because of this fee), they can become a prime target for piracy, especially overseas.

Unless I'm missing something, that wouldn't work unless the individual console itself was using a hacked firmware. That's enough of a pain in the butt that I can't see it impacting more than a tiny share of the market.

[spankythehippo]

Unless I'm missing something, that wouldn't work unless the individual console itself was using a hacked firmware. That's enough of a pain in the butt that I can't see it impacting more than a tiny share of the market.

This is true. I used to hack PSP's with custom firmware quite a while ago. I did it to mine to increase performance, and the fact that carrying UMD's everywhere took away from the "Portable" aspect. The hacking process is quite complicated, most of which requires resoldering physical components. This, in itself, is a pain in the arse to do.

However, a PS3 is a lot different to a PSP. I would never hack a console, such as a PS3 or an XBOX, since the console becomes a lot more unstable. I don't mind paying for games, in fact, I condone it. If I were a console owner, hacking the console would not appeal to me in the slightest. In my PSP's case, it was just too annoying in it's vanilla form.

[Fragony]

Unless I'm missing something, that wouldn't work unless the individual console itself was using a hacked firmware. That's enough of a pain in the butt that I can't see it impacting more than a tiny share of the market.

Don't see a storm comming either, you don't buy a console to be messing around, you buy it because it's easy to use.

[LeftEyeNine]

Just to drop a little reminder to keep the conversation pro-piracy-free.

Thanks for the considerate discussion so far.