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omgwtfbbq on 21 October 2008
DMeisterJ said:
50 Gigabytes would not take 1/2 hour.

It'd take me two, three, four days.

be thankful.

50GB would take me 5 months to download.

 



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Kasz216 on 21 October 2008
Ail said:
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...

Most hackers like to do stuff just to prove they can... they do it for the attention.

 

 



omgwtfbbq on 23 October 2008
Kasz216 said:
Ail said:
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...

Most hackers like to do stuff just to prove they can... they do it for the attention.

 

 

for the challenge, more than for the attention. But there is less motivation when there is less to gain. The holy grail is having unsigned code running directly on the hardware, and that's already possible with the PS3 and Linux (albeit, without access to the GPU)

 



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