blu ray burner is available. so, everybody can make a copy of ps3
game. how bout the mod chip? when it will come out? original games cost me a fortune.
blu ray burner is available. so, everybody can make a copy of ps3
game. how bout the mod chip? when it will come out? original games cost me a fortune.
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It won't happen. The Cell Chip is designed with security in mind, any "hack" or mod would quickly be fixed in a firmware release. You would then be stuck with a firmware that you can't update (and thus can't play online, or runt he latest games).
If you ever mod your ps3, you will end up regretting it. I see this question coming up a lot, and my answer will sound apocalyptic to you. But there are a lot of people working on making mods, and they will drag a lot of people down with them. So I'm emphasizing this to everyone who brings this up:
PS3 is NOT LIKE A PS2, SONY CAN AND WILL ENFORCE THE EULA. The ps2 had limited online capability, it ran on a standalone OS and only went online for games. Although ps2 mods often ruined online game capabilities, that was an acceptable trade-off to many. The ps3 on the other hand is regularly signed in to PSN. And it operates on a regularly-updated OS downloaded from SCE. This firmware can easily be modified by Sony to scan your ps3's hardware and software for any known mods or hacks. Any mod or hack that is known to you, will be known to Sony as well. It will be only a matter of time before Sony figures out that your ps3 is modded or that your firmware is altered.
Which means that Sony will have caught you in violation of your firmware EULA. When you pressed "X" to download it, you agreed that you will not modify or alter the hardware (modding) or the firmware (hacking) in any way, or Sony can punish you up to and including denial of service, meaning banning you from PSN, and from all firmware downloads to your modded ps3.
Unlike the psp, there is no way to get older firmware versions to work with hacks, you can't get 3rd-party stuff to work on a ps3, except in the severely restricted OtherOS mode. Access to the ps3's processors and gpu among other hardware is governed by a thing called the "hypervisor," and only Sony knows its intricate and arcane secrets. No 3rd-party hacker is ever going to make an OS that can successfully operate the hypervisor, just as no 3rd-party drivers exist that can fully use ATI radeon graphic cards. So if you get banned from firmware downloads, that's it, your ps3 is done being a ps3. It might still work in OtherOS mode, but it will be ruined forever as a game console.
Besides banning you - which Sony surely would do if they caught you with a mod or with hacked firmware - Sony might sue you too. Having hacked firmware is in the same kind of category as having pirated software.
Since nobody has successfully come up with any mod, or thus with any hack either, it's reasonable to expect Sony to hit hard at the first mod that ever does exist. People have already been banned from xbox live for modding/hacking, there's no reason to expect it will be any different for ps3. Once there is a mod, a bunch of enthusiastic people will install it and be quickly banned. Don't join them.
even if it will be available to mod a ps3, SONY will always create new encryption firmware for the games and the blue-ray dvd.
so when you update the ps3 with the new firmware you will no longer be able to play the copied games.
that's the only good about blue ray, you cant "break" the protection that easily