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hikaruchan on 15 January 2011

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thranx on 15 January 2011
mchaza said:
thranx said:
mchaza said:

no where near the scale of the 360 and light years behind the PC. people on the internet are over exaggerating the situation. an million copies of Call of Duty Black ops for 360 were pirated. 

PS3 is no where near it. The only reason its getting attention is because SONY is pulling an faster counter offensive compared to MS who while trying to stop it, they aren't going out of there way like SONY. 


from I have read it is worse than the 360 because of how open it really is. I also heard the new 360 slims are far harder to hack. I could be wrong and do not have the time to look up links. But I think the major issue here is that they got access to the hardware keys so they can essentially make any program look legit on ps3. As far as pirating games the 360 may be worse off, but I think you can get far more access to restricted stuff on the ps3. Keep in mind i could be wrong on all of this.


Well hacking and uploading custom software isn't as bad of an problem for SONY, i doubt sony would care much about that. What they do care about is people Pirating games, hacking online games, basically getting anything they get money from for nothing. 

At this moment the Pirating is Low but we will see in the future 


I agree they aren't as big of problems. if anything homebrew may help sell more hardware. But I was just saying the ps3 is more open to hackers. And as far as I know it is far harder for sony to detect hackers than ms, and more expensive/hard for the end user to hack the 360 than ps3. While piracy may not be a problem yet, due to the openess of the hack it could be far worse becuase from what I understand it may lead to being able to pirate games and play them online. As far as I know playing burned games online on the 360 is extremely risky



Antabus on 15 January 2011
BenVTrigger said:

Its hacked WAY worse than the 360.  On the 360 your basically swapping out a disc drive and putting in burned games.

On the PS3 its WIDE open and people are going to be able to run any kind of emulator and basically do whatever they want with it.  


There is also JTAG-hack on 360, I guess it allows homebrew.



Counti on 15 January 2011
Antabus said:

There is also JTAG-hack on 360, I guess it allows homebrew.


You can't compare the JTAG hack with what happend to the PS3.

There is no hack oder exploit on the PS3. They have the signature keys. It's just like we are Sony now, and we can do whatever sony can do with the PS3.

That means:

PS3 is open like a PC. Everyone can develop software and run it on a retail PS3. That doesn't work on a normal Xbox 360.



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NotStan on 15 January 2011

The reason piracy isn't as bad on PS3 as it is on 360 is simple - PS3 was trully "hacked" a few weeks back, when the main code of some sort was found, I think now it's probably easier to pirate a game on PS3 than on 360, the only difference being that it requires a BluRay disk, which may halt piracy a bit taking the price of those disks into account.

In other words, PS3 has been hacked to shit, but not enough time has passed to see the full effects that it will have.

360(old models) have been hacked years ago, so it's obvious as to why the piracy is a much bigger problem now. - it had more years to develop, whereas the PS3 scene is new.

We'll see the effects of the PS3 hack in the future, around 6-12 months, and yeah the HW bump will probably be substantional as a result.



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Barozi on 15 January 2011
Antabus said:
BenVTrigger said:

Its hacked WAY worse than the 360.  On the 360 your basically swapping out a disc drive and putting in burned games.

On the PS3 its WIDE open and people are going to be able to run any kind of emulator and basically do whatever they want with it.  


There is also JTAG-hack on 360, I guess it allows homebrew.

True but JTAGable 360s are veeery limited. Not because no one wants to have one, but because there simply aren't many 360 consoles where you can make this hack on.

Overall in terms of hacking PS3 has passed the 360 quite some time ago. Piracy... not yet, but it could get worse very fast.



ukeatdabian on 15 January 2011

you can say sony playstation 3 is doomed!!



Counti on 15 January 2011
NotStan said:

I think now it's probably easier to pirate a game on PS3 than on 360, the only difference being that it requires a BluRay disk, which may halt piracy a bit taking the price of those disks into account.


Not true. You can just copy it to the internal hdd or an external hdd and play it. No need to burn them on a bluray disc.



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NotStan on 15 January 2011
Counti said:
NotStan said:

I think now it's probably easier to pirate a game on PS3 than on 360, the only difference being that it requires a BluRay disk, which may halt piracy a bit taking the price of those disks into account.


Not true. You can just copy it to the internal hdd or an external hdd and play it. No need to burn them on a bluray disc.


Well that makes things even frigging easier then!



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BMaker11 on 15 January 2011

I just witnessed first hand hacking going on in MW2. Every gun has a laser, the crosshairs were always on target (you basically only had to line up the dot on a person then fire), when you died, gravity apparently stopped working on you (I did lol at this).

This sucks, overall