In January this year, Hackers claimed to have found way to play copied software on Sony’s previously impervious console. They have discovered a lengthy and convoluted workaround allowing users to play pirated copies of Killzone 2, PES 2008 and Burnout Paradise.
Users need to have an older PS3 (i.e. not a ‘Slim’ machine) in which third party OS software can be installed along with copies of Windows XP, the original MotorStorm and a host of piracy-related DVD software. The exploit, has been met with widespread scepticism amongst many in the hacker community, not least because of the extreme cost and effort needed to implement it.
Even if its hack is real, any detrimental effects are likely to be minimal for now. The fear, however, is that this method could be the start of full-fledged hacking of Sony’s console. With piracy rife in the Wii, Xbox 360, DS and PSP markets, the PS3 has to date proved the only current-gen machine to successfully fend off the hackers – but it seems that things could be about to change.
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