Sony has made a mandatory update to the PS3′s firmware, defeating all current hacks.
The hack to allow PS3 piracy (“jailbreaking” or “homebrew” as piracy advocates spin their activities), originally released by an Australian pirate outfit who soon found their efforts to profit from their discovery scotched by Sony’s lawyers, was soon duplicated in open source form, and subsequently ported to a variety of other devices, meaning a special USB dongle was no longer required.
So enthusiastic did the rumour-mill surrounding PS3 hacking become that soon tales of upcoming PS2 emulation functionality through hacking began circulating.
However, at the same time technical measures to thwart the hack were being rumoured to be nearing release by Sony – it appears these rumours were correct.
The new 3.42 firmware, a “minor update” including “additional security features” according to Sony, reportedly breaks all known PS3 hacks.
As it is a mandatory update, PS3 users will be forced to update if they wish to access the PlayStation Network at all – this coupled with the need to update to play upcoming games is likely to hamper the use of any hack unless a workaround is developed.
With Sony on the ball with its PS3 anti-piracy measures – as opposed to the apparently tolerant attitude of Nintendo and Microsoft – it remains to be seen whether the usual pirate versus publisher arms race will develop, or whether the PS3 will instead return to its no-piracy status quo.
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pirates should developed their own console
and then hack it
There's already a way to bypass this (within 24 hours):
http://psx-scene.com/forums/cmps_index.php
Scene workers are close to completing a patch to negate the entire firmware update. It's essentially a race once again ~
when will pirate realize that if there is no developer there will be no game.
So they can play their belove "homebrew" for all eternity with out new game right?
You do realize that "homebrew" includes games, right? People make homebrew games which can be awesome. That plus other-console emulation (which the PS3 could do wonderfully) gives you an enormous library of games.
As soon as piracy is really as bad as you all state it is.
Just like how PSX, N64, PS2, and DS had developers jumping ship due to pirates, leaving those consoles to die, right? Oh wait, even with the supposed high piracy rate on those consoles those platforms were all very successful.
thought they took out the usb ports with the update. way to go sony release firmware every pi$$ing week. updating is fun so much fun
"defeating all current hacks."
Not if you don't download the update. Honestly, some people can be so goddamn retarded! This jailbreak thing hasn't been stopped at all.
Continued proof that the PC is the best gaming platform.
Sony has Cock blocking system.
don't matter. Starcraft 2 and lineage 2 are for pc and mac, lol (and so will be diablo 3)
Tolerant attitude of Microsoft? You gotta be kidding me. They are so far the only ones that have again and again banned hacked consoles and the connected Xbox Live accounts. They are also the only ones that are using eFuses to prevent downgrading the device to an older version. Thus, only a very small number of 360s can still be hacked as today.
With Nintendo, sure, you may say they are somewhat tolerant (or "too stupid" to work against the hackers, if you prefer). But Microsoft? No way.
We'll see what the hackers come up with next.
Also, piracy is still really non-existent. Most decent games are over the FAT32 file size limit (4gb I think) and the Backup Manager doesn't support NTFS yet. So try doing some research, first before tossing the term "pirate".
so they have lost , and upgrading consoles is not mandatory :D
even better , you don't need to buy a device at all ^^
Good job Sony.
Yup, good job Sony for letting us easily bypass updating by changing our DNS nameserver IP addresses!
No wonder hackers already beat them, Sony is so incompetent.
Did these people think they could make this "PS Jailbreak" and get away with it?
Yep, and they will.
Why wouldn't they?
Main reason of why i dont like the PS3, something that makes a console temptative to buy, is the fact that you can make a modification to play games for free, a lot of players doesnt have the budget to buy all the games they want, also considering the fact that consoles games are freaking expensive (unlike PC games) i think that if the PS3 were more hackeable, more people would dare to buy it, but since thats not the case, it not as worthy as expected, PS3 fails
As a homebrew advocate, I can't agree with you. Sony sales PS3 on a loss, meaning, they lose money every time someone buys one. They make up that loss by licensing and selling games. You also don't seem to know that Sony isn't the only one making/losing money, as it hurts the developers more if no one buys games.
What you're requesting is for Sony to give people free games while losing money. That's the opposite of what companies aim for, you're essentially asking for a charity.
Get a job, pay for games you want, stop being spoiled. I've pirated my share of games, but I have also bought more games to support the devs.
Again, I'm all for homebrew, but people like who just want free stuff without any sense of responsibility give other homebrew advocates a bad name.
Lrn you shit, sir.
Sony now is profitable from console sales alone.
don't have enough budget, then don't buy it. Nobody is forcing you to game. I support homebrew but I have to say this is the worse explanation. Look at all the awesome homebrew programs on the psp created by endusers and I do believe its not just all about pirating games.
I concur, vote with your purses. Never buy console shit, pay only for PC games. All consoles must die.
patch the game to lower version just like in psp
no, sony can't patch their error :P
Good thing my house was broken into today, ps3 stolen along with other goods. (:
I lol'd when I saw I would have to update my PS3 again yesterday. Its actually quite impressive how quickly Sony jumped on this Jailbreak hack (I wish they had the same enthusiasm when fixing server problems!).
I think the only way Sony will give up defending the PS3 from hackers is when the PS4 eventually comes out.
Why would you want to pirate the PS3? It only has like five exclusive titles! Not worth the effort. I'll stick with my 360!
Already been bypassed bro. Couple VERY easy ways to get past it, and people are already working on a patch to make it permanent without the need for other tools.
Anyone got some popcorn for this arms race? I predict Sony losing once again...
well, they held up pretty long. Hope some good news come across psp hack
like the hackers arnt already scaning the new code line by line looking for a new hole
Imagine if they put this much effort into making a quality product vs wasting time locking it down.
The PS3 will just get cracked again once it happens the first time the war is over.
Besides it's been proven piracy really does not harm profits that much over all.
Personally I think it would be best to split the electronics part of Sony from the media part of the company.
The PS3 really could be a media center device and PC replacement but the restrictions prevent it from being anything more then a game box.
I wouldn't be surprised if those people who do sony's firmware are an army of ex-homebrew hackers who've been given a decent income.
GUESS WHAT SONY?! you're scared...
hopefully Sony has learned alot from this gen. it took them 3 iteration of PSP to be hack free. hope the next PSP and PS console will be safe as possible.
nintendo also. they have a history of easily being hacked
i hope they're not
Very good news indeed.
You married to Sony or something?
its not surprising that they stopped the hack. they still aren't really making money if none at all selling their ps3 units.
SanCon is ignorant when it comes to certain subjects.
I buy all my games, so none of this affects me in the slightest. I'm gonna play Demon's Souls. The pirates can have fun fighting with big bro- I mean Sony.
Can't wait for the PS4.
Think of all that stuff they'll remove from it to screw us out of more money. Like PS3 BC.
Sony: *updates*
PS3: *detects hack*
PS3: "Ju has been haxored"
PS3: *BOOM.......with TV*
Just don't update your firmware, simples?
I doubt anyone thought playing online was going to be viable in the long-term.
So I don't update firmware and I don't need any more psn for GOW3 or another funny offline game.
All I need is free!!!
I can tell you're illiterate at reading english, so I'll just say have fun playing NEW games & expecting to play them just fine. They'll require firmware updates.
Filthy pirate.
but of course.
next crack on news at 11.
Ahaha good for them.
Using the wise words of the late Geese Howard:
"PREDICTABLE!!!"
In short, if you are not into online gaming, and don't have any demo / game you wish to download from PSN right now (pirated copy might be available too), you don't really have a reason to update.
This, of course, applies only to future games. For disc-based games, the firmware must be ready and properly tested by the time discs are pressed, from which point there's quite some time for them to "hit the shelves". And when such games arrive, there will definitely be one or more of the following:
1)Pirated copies which have readily applied patches necessary for running the game on older firmware
2)Patches, with which users can install their original copies to HD, and make them compatible with their current firmware
3)Modified firmware, that will run these new games, maybe even from original discs
As usual, pirates are going to have it easier than "honest users" who want to use the hack for running homebrew, but buy the games.
Personally, since the rather "one-sided" and totally uncompensated OtherOS removal, I can't see how someone would side with Sony as much as this article does. Before that I might have considered installing this hack, but there's no longer need to consider.
PS3's are also used as media players, with suitable homebrew programs, PS3 could:
1)Play common media formats, such as mkv
2)Play from normal samba shares, not depending on dlna server
3)Replace a DVD player (if regional restrictions are removed)
Nobody used OtherOS and the only reason anyone cares about "homebrew" is because it is a synonym for "pirating" in the minds of most.
That GeoHot guy played a big part in this pirate mess. After he got the OtherOS option removed he tried to fight back. He leaked the official PS3 DevKit and its operating documents. He then retired from hacking. He probably did this to avoid legal action from Sony.
If you were paying close attention to the scene, the hackers who develop Custom Firmware for the PSP took great interest in this. They are likely the ones who also released this Jailbreak.
The "Key code" for the DevKit was probably leaked either by a bad developer or a corporate spy.
There exists a fix to access PSN even with 3.41 firmware without the need to update ... We haven't lost yet!
Plenty of Sony loving bias in this article.
Sony lost.
Just like the PSP, the manner in which the hack takes effect means anyone who doesn't update and is patient enough won't need to.
Hopefully they never find a way, pirates need to disappear off the face of the earth.
The Exploit should not be patched.
Only the current version of PSGroove.
A little change in hex file and it should work again.
The PSJailbreak did worl only on 3.41, thats because you need for every firmware an other hex file and thats the reason, SONY will remove the debug mode in new consoles.
Someone needs to get some russian spies inside sony.
good job SONY
It's a Sony!!
We should put these as a case study.
Case 1:
PS2 hacked
Case 2:
PSP hacked but require regular hacking updates
Case 3:
PS3 not-hacked yet
And see which 1 sells better, profit more or is more popular. =/
PS2 hasn't really been "hacked" per se.
You can pirate with it, but it's expensive... Sorta defeats the point of doing it. Am I right?
Not... really. The original PlayStation2 was easily hacked with a swap-out disc. First you play the disc - like $15 or something - then you take the little cover off the front of your PS2 disc drive and use the included key to pull the door open. Any game can be played after that by burning an ISO to a DVD-R (+R?).
lol who cares whether it is hacked, cracked or bypassed. As long as you get to play for free, you win, SONY loses.
Give it the name you want, the point is getting to play for free (or at a very low cost). Period.
So your definition of "hacked" is a swap out disk?
I swear, kids these days.
So the free PS2 emulators and disk images on the internet are expensive? Are you sure about that?
You, good sir, are an idiot.
This is about PS2, not the PS2 emulators.
Get facts straight before commenting or fear my wrath.
Are you saying the USB drive I paid $10 for that lets me run any disc I want is expensive? Yeah the PS2 is really easy to "hack".
I have a "hacked" PS2, which isn't hacked at all. Sure, the PS2 can be used to play pirated games, like I stated. But hacked? It's far from.
PS2 already has quite an unfair advantage on the others since I'm fairly sure it owns the title of most successful console ever (150+ million sold or something where as the Wii has only scrapped around 70 million).
That's why Microsoft are so benevolent about their pirating policy. Microsoft still may ban some consoles, but because it's easily piratable and cheap, the pirate will buy a new one...
What I don't get, is why do producers create games for consoles like that when they know that the game will end up being pirated. Why would a pirate buy a PS3 to play FF3 if he can buy a cheaper Xbox and play a pirated version of the game. I know that FF13 is an awful game, but it's just an example...
but PS3 have BluRay (<- that a major reason why PS3) and XBOX360 have crappy DVD HD (who sells movie on DVDHD), games are pretier and uncut
@theoristPL Most PS3 games only uses 5-7 GB of disc space. Aside from FFXIII, Uncharted 1&2 and GOWIII, very few titles utilize the extra space.
The bluray drive was only included because Sony wanted to win the HD format war, so they could take-in additional royalty fees from the film industry.
If you have any doubts to that claim, know this; PS3 was delayed an entire year because Sony wanted the system to support HDMI 1.3a, which is heavily encrypted. And that encryption only benefits the film industry.
By the way, your English needs a lot of work.
Yes, BluRay is THE[/] reason to prefer PS3 over Xbox, DVD just can't compete. I wonder how long it will stay like this. I can almost smell a new Xbox...
Yeah I always wondered that.If the publishers are sooo mangled by piracy why not just make all games PS3 exclusives?That way nobody can pirate them.At the moment at least.
Editors believe that:
hight rate sales = more public
What the editors don't see for the xbox360 is that if you consider how many xbox get replaced because it was banned or it broke down due to miss use. The number of sales is irrelevant to determine how many players are out there... If you consider the pirating existing in the console, one really must ask if really worth developing in a console like that...
This effectively harms games that are developed in both PS3 and Xbox and it will also harms the sell of the PS3 to.
Editors and Sony come out loosing in this situation. Microsoft laugh at this...
thank you, someone else notice this.
also, this mean a bigger market, since 3rd world countrys people are more prone to buy pirated consoles for their greater posibility of adquiring games. (sega knew this, they dominated the brasilian market with the sega genesis, by making it cheaper to buy).
every last person i know own (live in argentina) (or owned a ps2, a few a xbox and nobody a gamecube) now the most selled consoles are the wii and xbox 360 (specially the 360) ps3, are few and far beween, and you are usualy a nut job, sony fanboy or a person with rich parents if you own one(and not suprising considering each game is worth about 100 dollars, and the consol itself around 500 dollars)
sorry for horrible gramar
Nobody cares about third world gaming markets - they just can't afford to purchase games at prices which economically support modern game production.
And there is no point in selling consoles to them if they can't buy games, unless you consider the long-term (potential) advantages of trying to create a piracy-based monopoly, as Microsoft might.
I *think* MS don't care much about piracy because they can get a lot of money from Live from these countries without doing much.
That is true, but only to a certain extent. Sony only recently introduced the PS2 and PS3 to South America, but people in the region already sold PlayStation games and consoles before they were properly introduced there.
its a shame you could build a pretty solid base, in brasil alone you have a 100 million person market.
i wonder how much will it take for the industry to start 3rt parting games development to 3rd world country programers, where they could make them for 50 times more cheap.
Wow... That was fast.
No surprise there. The jailbreak depended on a simple bug in the PS3 firmware.
Every time some DRM'ed device comes along, the crowd jeers that it will be just a matter of time before it gets hacked, but that is not a given. DRM can't be done right, since the whole concept is wrong, but it can be done effectively, and that is why we are in need of legislation to prevent that kind of crap.
DRM looks set to "win" in the long run - the more integrated gaming platforms get to the Internet the more the balance shifts in favour of preventing piracy.
When a game is reliant on dynamically downloading encrypted parts of itself from a company controlled master server (Ubisoft already introduced the basics of this approach in recent titles) and can only be played from a thin-client console operating system, piracy will become extremely difficult compared to now.
i disaggre, server hosting is a big spendig (remember they are a constant expense, and most games except mmo, only have 1 time income of cash per game), only the big game developers can sustain it, besides (from my point of view) its not really viable, most people dont like having to have a constant connection (a lot of people dont have a stable internet connection, even in america), no control over their saves, and the inability to mod their games.(as you can see from silent hunter 5, settlers 7, assasin creed 2 user reviews)
Also When the server go down you cant play the game,so when a company bring them down, you are the proud owner of a 50 dollars piece of plastic.
This trend from my point of view will die in pc games, as did securom, and all that stuff, as a employe of ubisoft said it: "you cant kill piracy you can only slow it down"
again sorry for my butchering of inglish
The problem is Sony has so much potential with their PS3 they think its a perfect system the truth is it's not perfect.I can play my VCD on a PS3 that I burn off on my computer it plays the movie
Does that mean I exploiting PS3?
The answer to that is no.
From what i understand (from the assasins creed 2 crack, and my limited expirience programing), it can still be cracked, since the data is still needed to be send to your pc for the game to run, you can make a program that save that data, and make a different program that emulate a server sendig that data to the game (if i understand correctly thats how some of the AC2 crack worked, dont really know how the skidrow one worked.).
My point is that, the more you try to fight piracy the more invasive and complicated the DRM must be, wich usually only ends up hurting the legal owners of the game (and by default the sales of the game, and the name of the company (see settlers and silent hunter)) (see securom), not counting how expensive is to create new tipes of protection.
again sorry for the inglish
if its a few bytes there is no problem for hackers. its done know, playing through the game collecting those bytes and emulating a server that sends those bytes.
the problem is a game of which like 20-100% of the game data lies on the server. But this costs a lot of money transfering that data and keeping the servers up.
And this too will be only a matter of time.
Fully agreed and nicely written for a non-native speaker. Kudos.
It's viable - you only need to randomly have the game require a few bytes of info for the game to run, along the lines of what Ubisoft did. If every copy required different code from the server it would be extremely difficult to crack.
And of course they can shut off the servers after a few users, either leaving owners high and dry or patching it out.
Pirates just got Spwned.
There goes the arms race again.
I believe the hack works again with new firmware btw.
I've got 4 spare PS3s I don't use, lol.
I'll be fine in the long run.
Damn, that's awesome...I only have the regular fat 80gigs that first came out and the new slim one...
I guess I could play those hacked games on my friend's house if I ever leave my room from archiving hentai and jacking off to Touhou futa doujins...
What's with the negative..?
Is it so wrong to fap to hentai more than play videogames..?
I could only balance my time so much with 5-8 hours of work, College, and Hentai Archiving on a daily basis...
Hell, my Wii and 360 are gathering dust...
I'm lucky if I could play videogames for a couple of hours...
Hentai>Work>College>Videogames
Videogames are the least of my priorities and I only spend time on them on days off...
And yes, my friend did buy that PS3 Jailbreak USB...You guys and gals reading this must have at least one pirate friend, right..?
*Double post*
Wont take long to figure out what changed and make the required changes to the jail break.
Once the first jailbreak is found its just a matter of small changes to get it working again.
PSP's method utilizes a route not found in the PS3, that's why Sony has pretty much given up on that one. (Since the method is built-in rather than software)
This theory has not worked since the PS3 release, I don't see why it would start now. Sony has so far successfully patched every possible hack people have found. Unlike other companies they seem very aware of how to work with their hardware to destroy these workarounds.
I refuse to pirate games whenever possible (no modchips, R4's etc) so I am glad that Sony has managed to remain on top of piracy on their console.
@2:57
Incorrect. The OtherOS feature was removed while no publically known hack existed. A lot of possible reasons exist, and the most likely is that a possible security breach existed in the OtherOS feature and Sony could not patch it otherwise.
@00:28
Not quite. You need either the unencrypted firmware or the encryption keys Sony uses. Otherwise, you'd need to rebuild 2/3 of the console to make it work.
@Artefect
You are jumping the gun. The so called "mandatory" update can easily be bypassed and the console can (so far) connect to PSN even with older firmware (some OtherOS users still run 3.15) and can use PSN. However, Sony is able to detect the backup manager a.k.a. pirate game manager which will get you banned if you ever connect with your PS3.
p.s.
Pirates aren't the only ones using the jailbreak. Keep in mind that PSGroove actively blocks Backup Manager by default.
00:28 right, the PS3 has been compromised before and as a result Sony released an update that stopped the one method, ie the no install other OS feature. Sony will just find another way to stop the current attempts and will do the same with any future attempts on the PS3.
Actually, the current PSP v6.xx firmware has already been cracked but it would force the entire hacking community to start over. Even games that are currently working on v5.xx would no longer work if they all made the switch to the new firmware, not to mention it would break all homebrew. It is more function to keep running v5.xx with patches to allow modded PSPs to run new games.
I agree. Not everyone interested in this thing is in it just to get "free entertainment" in the form of unpaid games.
Also, I doubt this is the end of this hack. Hackers have proven to be just as resourceful as Sony themselves. Seeing how things go, I think the system will end up completely hacked sooner or later.
Except with the PSP which has been repeatedly hacked over and over with different exploits.
Once the system is hacked the first time, its done! Sony has lost! Several people will chose not update and "unplug" their ps3 from the net.
Of course, they are just a few guys, but at this point, the PS3 is no longer a no-hack system!
Look at the PSP 3000, still can't be fully hacked, the sony homebrew scene is dead, it's hardly worth hacking anymore.
It's like god damn cold wear again...
Yeah but this time it's over the gamming industry instead of countries though. So the up side is at least no one will be "nuked" by accident now.
Nintendo is tolerant? Look at the happening in Love+ is you use any hack.
Yeah, 'cause it's really likely I'll find one in foreseeable future. Shouldn't seek any kind of consolation in the meantime.
Eh eh, get it? 'Consolation'.
Love Plus isn't real. You need to attach C4 to your Nintendo console before throwing it out of the window and find a real girlfriend.
I know pretty well, then.
You won't know until you try.
Love Plus isn't published by Nintendo. It's developed and published for the DS by Konami.
In Davy Jones' voice: CURSE YOU SONY!!!
IN SONY I TRUST.
IN SONY WE TRUST*fixed
I see what you did there.
my bad didn't mean to isolate everyone else lol.
In loli we t(h)rust. ^_^
There will be spies and traitors on both sides...
There will be (hardware) casualties...
There will be (employee) sacrifices...
There will be (firmware) espionage...
There will be (media) propaganda...
Two Super Powers will collide...
Pirates VS. Ninj--er, Sony...
Let the Cold (Videogame Hack) War begin again...
Oh, C'mon, a negative..!
I wasn't even talking about anime girl armpits this time..!
U MAD that I came up with that speech first or something..?
*snickers*
Absolutely. Once started it won't stop, no matter what Sony does.
Sony may have won this battle,but eventually it will lose the war...
When they do, the PS4 will be already out
and all will be meaningless.
Or not.
Hard to say, but Sony was a Worthy Opponent at least.
The hardware is nearing a half a decade in age. I buy my shit legally so this doesn't affect me in the least. But by the time the pirates "win", it will only be because Sony's focus has moved to other areas. Such as a new console.
I agree with what you say there, and I too buy legally because I can already play import games, so hacking my PS3 is just plain stupid.
It took almost 5 years to hack succesfully.. do you really think pirates will win the so called war?
Hmm in my opinion it's a pretty onesided war huh.. lol
I can't see the future, and neither can you. If this hack allows access to some of the more sensitive things in the PS3, it's all over.
And besides, it's been only a few months without the OtherOS feature.
This is similar to a car windshield getting a chip. Sure, it was pristine for 5 years, but that chip could turn into a crack... and that crack could end up spidering out.
Once the first sign of weakness appears, more will soon come after.
The difference IMO is that there was not much interest in PS3 pirating due to price of the console and the relative small library in the first years, now that has changed and with this first hack the scene has become more active in 1 month than all of those 5 years, that's a great difference.