Hypothetically if I was a phat PS3 owner, Other OS wouldn't be worth $300 to me. I can do all that homebrew stuff on my laptop and my laptop has a HDMI port.
If Geohot manages to release customer firmware that can then be used by sceners to play pirated PS3 copies, I can imagine that Other OS would have a ton of value to gamers (some gamers don't mind sacrificing live and live updates for the opportunity to pirate 360 games after all). But I can't imagine that homebrew alone would make Linux on the PS3 worth it.
Once the PS3 gets compromised fully, we're going to see release groups releasing 8.5 GB PS3 ISO rips with compressed audio and video. Don't let the 25-50 GB size of Blu-Ray lead you into thinking that PS3 games won't be pirated. They will. Compressing game audio and video to save space is nothing new with release groups. They did this back in the day when game rips were popular (this was back when broadband wasn't very popular and 650 MB was way too damn much for most people to download). And they did the same with Dreamcast games (compressing them down to CD size) and with Dual layered DVD PS2 games (not everyone was able to get dual layered pirated copies to work on their PS2 so they would compress the audio/video to get the games down to one 4.7 GB DVD or split the dual layered games into two DVDs). Look at what they are doing with Blu-Ray. Releasing compressed 720p and 1080p MKV rips on the internet. Blu-Ray isn't stopping them from ripping Blu-Ray movies and sending them out online on the internet. So why would Blu-Ray stop them from ripping and distributing PS3 games?
Considering how much pirate groups go out of their way to compress files (ie. ripping music to lossy MP3. releasing compressed Xvid and MKV videos. compressing audio and video in video games, etc.) so that they can be consumable by the masses, I call bullshit on these release groups pretending like they don't leak out games for anyone but their scener friends. Their scener friends all have fast internet connections with generous bandwidth. They don't need games, music, movies, etc. to be compressed for them.
