The PS3 has been hacked yet again, this time allowing pirates to sneakily downgrade their firmware freely to earlier (hackable) versions, although directly running pirated copies on the latest firmware is still only a promised future upgrade.
The makers provide an announcement as triumphal as it is lacking in literacy:
PS Jailbreak now supports firmware 3.42, 3.50 and beyond!
Again we revolutionize the world and show the disbelievers that we are the original source. We understand what we are doing and will continue to be at the forefront of support. Officially launched today is the worlds only downgrader.
Allowing you to downgrade your new console to any previous firmware version. With a PS Jailbreak and PS Downgrade now all all 44 Million users and counting can enjoy Homebrew. We dont like new comers beeing singled out , so we ventured into the unknown once again and now brought you an out of the box USB solution.
All dealers should contact us for new pricing schedules, as well as marketing material. We have just completed a new batch of product ready to ship immediately.
Please beware PS Downgrade only installs on original PS Jailbreak devices. There are numerous inferior clones and copycats out on the market claiming to be compatable with our support. This is FALSE!!! Buy original from a trusted reseller or risk being stuck with a paperweight.
It should be noted that “PS Jailbreak” does not actually support the latest firmware – it is instead now possible to revert to an earlier firmware which “PS Jailbreak” does support, as previously PS3 firmwares were strictly upgrade-only with no downgrades possible.
The irony of the makers of a piracy tool complaining vociferously at every turn about unauthorised copies and even apparently trying to develop their own copy protection hardly bears mention.
There are some suspicions that an upcoming upgrade to the PS3’s firmware will once again break the device, but it does seem Sony is slowly losing ground.
If they lowered their prices and put some more god damned effort into making their games instead of churning out the same gunmetal-grey pieces of crap that can be finished in under an hour, there wouldn’t be a need for hackers.
I hope this hack gets squashed.
haha. come on! it was just question of time. Wasn’t it?
If people keep trying to hack the PS3 through the USB port SONY will eventually put out a patch that kills the USB ports. Eliminating the possibility of hacking and killing those 3rd party controllers and at the same time forcing all peripherals to be bluetooth instead of regular wireless. Don’t say they won’t because they already did something similar with the removal of the ability to install another OS.
I think every one is missing the point, Piracy only exists because people dont want to pay the over the top prices for games (and movie’s/music)
The simplest and most cost effective way to cut piracy would be to make games cheaper, would you buy a pirate game at say $10 if you could get a genuine copy and support the developer for only say $15-$18 its the Greed of the company’s that cause the issue in the first place, and if there was not a profit to be made the pirates would stop,
Suer you will never fully eliminate the issue but the gaming industry could save billions if they would stop wasting their money of copy protection that WILL be cracked and would just make things cheaper to start with, I know I would still only have the same amount of $$ to spend and would just buy more with it.
How dare they expect ample pay for their effort, those greedy bastards! Who do they think they are, trying to make a living and feed their families? WHAT ABOUT THE FANS?!? They should work for months and months perfecting a game with 300 hours of gameplay and 20000 different endings and then give it to me for five dollars!
They also need to stop wasting the nigh unlimited disc space that they have at their disposal and make LONGER GAMES with BETTER ENGINES. That’s another reason nobody wants to pay the full price, because most of the time they aren’t even worth it. 80 bucks to play a game for 1 hour and be done with it? Get bloody bent, you tosser!
this post gave me a headache..