If you leave your modem off long enough it will change your ip unless you have paid for a static ip address. What happens a lot of times is that someone else has unplugged their modem and they grab your ip or vice versa.
If the PS3 is anything like the 360 it will have a serial number /mac address type setup and sony can use this to block your PS3 so changing your ip address will do jack diddly to help you. But if this is the type of hack I think it is which was similar to the old xbox then it wouldn't matter. Because hackers could set up your ps3 to goto their servers to play games on. So basically they have a pirated version of PSN running some where and you connect to it to go play games. Thats what happend to the original xbox and that way you didn't even have to pay for live. Many many many people decided to do this instead of paying for live.
If the above is the case and hackers will be able to connect to their own pirated PSN network type thingie you can bet they will have a much worse pirating problem than the 360 does. But I doubt it will be as bad as the Wii either way.
I haven't been looking into this hack very much so I have a few questions for some of you who have looked into it. Exactly how hard is it to hack the ps3 with this new hack? Do you have to have something special to do it like the dongle hack? Or is it as simple as sticking in a flash drive and adding something? I'm guessing the severity of the pirating will have everything to do with the actual difficulty of installing the hack and not about worries from being banned from PSn. Just my $.02...
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