Ubisoftova rešitev za piratstvo: nujna povezava na internet

MacQ je 4. feb 2010 ob 15:48 izjavil:

Mislim, da ti ne štekaš, da bi tako zaščito enako zlomili s krekanim exe fajlom, tako kot do sedaj. Na konzolah pač ne moreš povoziti zagonske datoteke s krekano in nimaš torrentov, da dobiš ISO fajl in se lepo izogneš zaščiti pogona.

PS3 pa je padel v treh tednih, ko se je nekdo sploh lotil tega. Do tačas se namreč ni splačalo, ker ni imel ama nobene poštene igre.

"...we'll have to wait for the first hacked firmware to understand if a "realtime" patching will be possible...."

In other words, Infectus, besides not being done yet, is not a custom firmware. It only modifies the function of existing, obsolete firmware. To use it, you will have to remove the current firmware from your ps3 and find a copy of an older firmware. Besides that, if you downgrade to old firmware and install a modchip, you will NEVER be able to run current firmware on ps3 again. Take it for granted that any current firmware will scan your ps3 for modchips like Infectus, and finding them will ban you from PSN forever, then delete itself. Then you will just have to live with your old firmware forever. No PSN, no friends list, no playstation store. No online games. You have to have a psn account to do those things, and having an Infectus chip will get you banned from PSN, sure as rain falls in the Amazon.

In fact, if Infectus is that close to making mods of old firmware, you can assume that Sony has already updated the firmware to scan for it. The methods its using are obviously no secret so Sony has had plenty of time already to prepare to bust its users.

Finally, don't be deceived about the capabilities of modchips to alter the function of the ps3. The Infectus suggests a way to make the ps3 run on another firmware, but there is no such firmware and never will be. If there is, it will not be anywhere near as capable as ps3 firmware is. In particular, it will not be able to run the hypervisor, and will have to bypass the other hardware elements that the firmware uses. Nobody knows how the hypervisor works except Sony, and the odds that anyone will develop an OS that can run it are basically zero, just liked open-source drivers for graphics cards are "worked on" for years and never finished because the cards become obsolete first. The upshot of this is that there will never be a custom firmware that allows you to play ps3 games, because it wouldn't be able to use all the hardware necessary.

If you install a modchip and downgrade to old firmware for the sake of playing copied games, you will be sacrificing your PSN account forever. You'll only be able to play offline games (there goes Warhawk and all ps3 games that make you sign in when you start). No playstation store, ever.

If people start modding, watch Sony make logging in a requirement for all ps3 games, online or not. Goodbye new games for any modded ps3.

The cards are all in sony's hand here. It's not a psp. You need them to run the thing, don't count on a modder to run it better than they can.