PSP piracy threat looms as hackers break protection

[Qmark]

I guess it just sucks that it might come down to whether or not u want to play psp games, or homebrew....when it could have been both, had it not been for people trying hard to get psp games to play from the mem cards

What's going to happen is that homebrew enthusiasts simply are not going to purchase forced-update games that updated beyond what's currently running homebrew.
It would be roughly equivalent to paying someone $50 to kick you in the balls.

[Kaiser]

As said in my thread about the same thing

"Well this is my theory on that. Firmware will definately get hacked eventually no matter how much Sony Tries the only problem is when more and more great games come out with the update, the regular folk on this message board will be gone and homebrew will be out of there PSP.

The hardcore will sit and wait each update out for the newest hack. Every update though will have a longer wait for a crack as the security will get more and more complicated. What I'm trying to say we should enjoy how quick homebrew is coming out now and get use to long waits.

Also the scene is about to be made much smaller."

thats my opinion

[Ziim]

I wont buy games that have bios updates!
BOYCOTT!
1.51 - 1.52 Where are you?

[Eric]

All i have to say is where ever and how ever you got Homebrew and Emulation working on a system here comes away of getting commercial software,apps and games to work on the system illegal. Its done by making freeware programs to load commercial.

[Trips411911]

just buy another PSP. problem solved.

[tanner090]

Well, i think that you all have a good point and this isn't good for anything but the truth is that only a small fraction of the people that own a psp will go searching on the internet for pirated games. I think that its not much to kill it, thats forsure. All since a UMD disc is 1.8 GB im pretty sure that most developers would use most of that space on that disc. Mercury, Lumines, Coded Arms and Puzzle Bobble are all games that are small simple games that are not very good. Im very sure that games like metal gear and grand theft in the future and wipeout will ever make it onto a memory stick. Also, once this problem becomes widely public then the devs will start encoding they're releases but as ive come to know, they slowly get hacked but it will slow the process. I think that this will NOT be the end of the psp because the psp has a lot for functionability then a standard console. And once the update that includes the email and word processing and browser, suddenly gaming will not be the forefront of the psp.


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