PS3 Hacked - New Future Homebrew Exploit ?

[Eviltaco64]

Most piracy comes from downloading from torrents which aren't that fast. So most wont bother waiting a month for a game to download.

You'd be suprised how much you can compress an ISO. I once saw a Gamecube ISO compressed from 1.35GB to 350MB in a .rar file.

And if you had a good torrent, you could probably download a compressed game in maybe a week.
Could extremely large ISOs be the end of mainstream piracy (at least for a few years)?

[phsychokill]

I downloaded the first series of heros in HD cause I missed it the total size was 30GB and it only took about 40 hours. it all just depends how many people are on the torrent. but you will find if alot of people want to pirate games the people getting them will most likly get the full speed thier conection can do.

[mcdougall57]

Could extremely large ISOs be the end of mainstream piracy (at least for a few years)?

I would say so but you may be right about the whole compression thing because maybe some of the ps3 games are uncompressed because of the availability of free space on BR discs.

[F9zDark]

You'd be suprised how much you can compress an ISO. I once saw a Gamecube ISO compressed from 1.35GB to 350MB in a .rar file.

And if you had a good torrent, you could probably download a compressed game in maybe a week.
Could extremely large ISOs be the end of mainstream piracy (at least for a few years)?

The reason that is is because alot of games are filled with "dummy data" data that isn't used by the game itself, but it exists to simply fill the disc to thwart amateur pirates.

Pirates who don't know about dummy data will have a hard time trying to get a site to host the file and/or will take longer to get the file to seed via torrents since people will have to have the whole file or significant parts of it to seed it enough to make its download time reduce. (For example, a 1 gig file takes, say 10 hours to download with 1 seeder, the original pirate. However, until that file has been completely downloaded by a second person you will never get a reduction in download time. Optimally, said file needs to be downloaded by many individuals before its download speed is reduced enough for most people to deal with.)

On the same vein however, torrents are THE fastest way to get large files. This depends all on the amount of SEEDERS and LEECHERS. A 1 gig file with 0 leechers and 1000 seeders all uploading at 1 megabyte a second will allow you to download that file in damn close to 1 second.

[General Plot]

The reason that is is because alot of games are filled with "dummy data" data that isn't used by the game itself, but it exists to simply fill the disc to thwart amateur pirates.

Actually, the main purpose of including dummy info in games was so that the real game data would be pushed towards the outside of the disc. No matter what medium you use (CD, DVD, BD, etc...), data always reads quicker the further towards the outside of the disc it is. By including dummy info to push the data to the outside, loading times can cut to minimal time if the data can be read at a faster rate (obviously).

[do_me_nice]

Wow @ F9zDark... please wikipedia...

If your torrents are slow, it's because you are on a public tracker... find a private one.

Forget about homebrew. If you want to be selfritious about hacking your PS3 do it elsewhere.

[F9zDark]

Wow @ F9zDark... please wikipedia...

If your torrents are slow, it's because you are on a public tracker... find a private one.

Why is that? My dummy data argument? General Plot already informed me of my incorrect information regarding that.

As for torrents, judging how they work and seeing that Seeders are required to get said files quickly indicates to me quite clearly how they operate. Private trackers still require that members part of the tracker have the files and are sharing them. My point still stands that people need to SHARE the files to get them QUICKLY.

[DPyro]

When your downloading a torrent, your automatically sharing it.

[lmtlmt]

not always

[F9zDark]

When your downloading a torrent, your automatically sharing it.

True, to a degree, but my point that torrents require people sharing the file still stands; it all goes back to seeders and leechers...

Without a seeder you won't ever get the file; with 1 seeder you'll get it very slowly; with 1000 seeders and 1 million leechers you may as well not even bother downloading the file at all...