Blu-ray and PS3 games are hard to hack because it's the Apple of Videogame systems.

It's not popular enough to merit the focus of the majority of hackers.

The Mac OS is actually easier to crack then the Windows OS... it's just less people use the Mas OS so what's the point?

Actually the main reason the PS3 is harder/less hacked is that it came with region free games and the capability to boot to a dual OS that lets you play with the hardware.

Those are usually 2 reasons for which the hardcore hackers hack a machine, making much of the work the pirates usually rely upon to do their pirating.

By giving those features Sony removed the main reason for the non-pirate strong hacker to work on the machine and the pirates can not steal their work to do their pirating...

Newegg has BR burners for as low as $200 and BD-Rs for $8. That's expensive relative to DVD, but not so much that it's really prohibitive. It's still WAY cheaper than actually buying games, since break even point is at 4 games. The system's just hard to hack and not many people are trying.

Blu-Ray have been completely decrypted by a few group of people including Slysoft the maker of anydvd. So it's possible por someone to rip a blu-ray and make a back-up. The thing is that making a backup is not enough. The console needs to be modified internally for it to play backup games. It hasn't been done yet but it really has nothing to do with Blu-Ray. You could say that Sony has been better than Nintendo and Microsoft to protect their hardware. It's not surprising as Sony is a member of the RIAA, MPAA and already have a certain expertise with DRM(securom on Spore for example).

It's not so much that they have been better is that they removed most of the icentives in hacking the PS3 for the non-pirates ( and those are actually the better hackers by far).

PS2 got hacked to hell because for example to run Linux you had to buy a 100$ kit that was only available for sale for a short time. End result every hacker that wanted to play with the machine had to hack their way through the PS2 OS as there is no way they were paying 100$ for that...

PS3 can be dual booted to Linux out of the box and Sony even explains you how... So there is 0 incentive for non pirate to hack the PS3 OS

Believe it or not, the best hackers/coders in the world are not pirates, pirate just usually take advantage of their work..

BluRay burners is still expinsive and rare.

Yeah, i mean, when buying a blank BD is practically as expensive as a retail Blu Ray movie, piracy in general isnt gonna be that popular at the moment.

Actually all PS3 games do not take 50GB space. Most of them are just a bit over 10GB. And for cracked versions... They are already there. Too bad that Blu-ray drives and empty Blu-ray discs just cost too much for now. Well, you can always put them on HD.

Resistance.Fall.of.Man.PAL.PS3-DNL 15.45 GiB
The.Elder.Scrolls.IV.Oblivion.PAL.PS3-MRN 14.35 GiB
Blazing Angels 2 Secret Missions of WWII [MULTi5][PS3] 12.82 GiB
Genji.Days.of.the.Blade.EUR.PS3-NextLevel 12.69 GiB
Formula.One.Championship.Edition.EUR.PS3-NextLevel 11.57 GiB
...

Burned version of resistance,
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/987830/ps3_hack/
(Believe or not... I don't yet... :) )

thejuicingamer said:
thats exactly my point, if nobody has been able to do it than that means its working, plus it would take hours to burn a blu ray game

Price is the issue not time.

Original CDR piracy only picked up when the blank media got cheap and off-course like many people told you before but you choosed to ignore you would also need to be able to run the disc on something no modchip no hack firmware no need to bother downloading/burning discs.

Anyone here with personal experience regarding burning Blue-rays btw?
Does it fail often like CDR and DVDR in teh begining?

It'll be hacked eventually. Hats of to sony though because its certainly taking a heck of a long time.