PS3 Firmware 3.42 Now Live

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disolitude said:

Mohasus said:

Euphoria14 said:

I doubt it stops the hack people. 

Actually, it does.

"Update: We can confirm that all variants of the USB-hub emulating exploit (PSFreedom, PSGroove, PSJailbreak) are no longer functional in firmware 3.42."

http://exophase.com/

unless you hack and don't update for now.

A lot of people may choose to use PS3 offline and have another one for must play online games. Also whats so hard about not updating to 3.42 for a few weeks and waiting for a new hack firmware? Just saying...

By the time Sony gets this firmware on new game disks which trully makes it a manditory update, hack will most likely be updated to go around the Sony firmware block.

Sony's got several way to protect :

All future games and applications to require a new firmware (and by requiring I mean the game can not work without it, offline or online)

For very important games (GT5) they could provide a Dongle necessary to play it

They could also make a mandatory install for games that force you to update firmware (once the game starts to install, it installs also the new firmware)

They can go the way with online activation of new games

They can also try to update their firmware very frequently (weekly basis)