Forewarning potential digital pirates of possible repercussions from using the new PSJailbreak dongle as a way to illegally back-up PS3 games, hacking website PS3Hax.net are claiming that Sony will be able to dish out PSN bannings to those who choose to steal games. The site states:
“The Backup manager game ID could be logged/recorded by Sony when logged into PSN (when online). This would obviously allow Sony to see who would be using the illegal PSjb/clone and we could very well see ban waves similar to the Xbox 360.”
The news hardly comes as a shock, with Sony sure to be working around the clock on a response to combat what is viewed as the biggest threat to their previously impervious PS3 software library. The tit-for-tat dance between Sony and hackers is sure to continue, however, with likely future firmware updates and possible banhammers on the horizon as both camps attempt to best one another.
We abhor piracy here at TheSixthAxis and highlight such potential bannings as a warning to those who may be contemplating using the device. Don’t. If not for your own enjoyment of games, then for the wider gaming industry which undoubtedly suffers from piracy.
Source: MCV
TSBonyman
Proper order really.
SmokeyPSD
and it starts.
I’m still finding it utterly ridiculous that we’re facing this, after losing linux for precisely “security reasons”.
arodmell
Good on you Sony. We need to be paying for the hard work the developers put into some of the awesome PS3 games around. Personally I am the type of gamer that rents his games. I don’t hoard them. So I never really thought about pirate games.
Now that Blu-ray discs (25GB) are down to around £1.25 each I am guessing Piracy is going to become a lot more common. Glad to haer Sony is gonna be doing something about that :D
SoMassive
Ah well, this is no problem, only the Backup Manager software can be detected, so once we’ve loaded the game it’s all good. :)
I personally am not buying the software, and I know I’d be shot if I was by you lot, but it will be released free soon and it will be hard to resist downloading it and getting free backed up games.. :D
Sony can try to stop hackers, but they are just gonna be pwnd, and pwnd, and pwnd. People should appreciate the intellect and effort these hackers have to utilize when coming up with these hacks.
wick15
Good to see Sony counter attacking the pirates. Hope they find a way to completely abolish the problem.
Charmed_Fanatic
Good news :)
Alex_Assassin_08
While I also hate piracy, I seriously doubt SONY can tell who’s a cheater. The PSN is incredibly basic, so i doubt they gatherer the statistics/data to judge who is a cheater.
NuckenFoob
Well if Sony release a major update which allows us to install games to our harddrive but we still need our discs to boot it (i.e xbox >.<) then us legal gamers wont get caught in any of this piracy and those who have purchased the dongle will get banned o.O?
Sokar25
i think sony should ban your PSNID and IP address, that way they cant set up new ones at that address
Ross
bit harsh but far.
Sokar25
ok, if that is harsh, then we should have a 3 strike system,
where you get a warning for the first one, one weeks ban for the second, and a total ban for the third