Does Sony have a secret weapon against the hackers?
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Poorly translated article but its basically saying:
From now on, every blu-ray game (and possibly movie too) will come with unique serial keys printed on the disk. These keys are only known by Sony servers (not stored on the PS3's themselves) so once you insert the game into the PS3, it verifies the key on the disk against the key on the server and allows it to play. This is even with PSN games as well. So in theory backups won't work anymore because they won't have the key on them...
But here's the article:
From a very reliable source ( SKFU ) we have a striking new feature of the PS3 heard. The feature would be present even at the PlayStation Network but is currently still hidden. It is a serial system "which Sony will soon start working. Since the root keys on the street you can see every homebrew tool (including backup management) make it sound like it was made by Sony. This makes it so hard for Sony to gamers with backup managers to detect and block. The idea is that soon every Blu-ray disc, disc with a unique number, comes with a serial key. These 'serial-key then works then only with its Blu-ray disc with matching number.
So it will soon be so should work, that when you a game buys and PlayStation 3 do, you activate it with your 'serial-key "and thus a call to Sony to show that you are authorized for that game play on your PlayStation 3. Reportedly, any 'serial-key may be used only five times, as many PlayStation Store downloads. Given the implementation according to our source has already been done in the PlayStation Network, and three unknown input fields on the PlayStation Network, is the probability that this system will be introduced enormous
From now on, every blu-ray game (and possibly movie too) will come with unique serial keys printed on the disk. These keys are only known by Sony servers (not stored on the PS3's themselves) so once you insert the game into the PS3, it verifies the key on the disk against the key on the server and allows it to play. This is even with PSN games as well. So in theory backups won't work anymore because they won't have the key on them...
But here's the article:
From a very reliable source ( SKFU ) we have a striking new feature of the PS3 heard. The feature would be present even at the PlayStation Network but is currently still hidden. It is a serial system "which Sony will soon start working. Since the root keys on the street you can see every homebrew tool (including backup management) make it sound like it was made by Sony. This makes it so hard for Sony to gamers with backup managers to detect and block. The idea is that soon every Blu-ray disc, disc with a unique number, comes with a serial key. These 'serial-key then works then only with its Blu-ray disc with matching number.
So it will soon be so should work, that when you a game buys and PlayStation 3 do, you activate it with your 'serial-key "and thus a call to Sony to show that you are authorized for that game play on your PlayStation 3. Reportedly, any 'serial-key may be used only five times, as many PlayStation Store downloads. Given the implementation according to our source has already been done in the PlayStation Network, and three unknown input fields on the PlayStation Network, is the probability that this system will be introduced enormous
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A better translation lol:
Sony plans to combat PS3 piracy with Blu-ray disc serial keys.
Similar to what's been done with PC games in the past, when you buy a PS3 or PSN game you'll get a serial key with it which you can use up to 5 times.
This gives Sony a signal that you are authorized to play the game and that you have a legal copy of the game, and the serial key only works with the same Blu-ray disc with the same serial number.
To quote, roughly translated: "From a very reliable source (SKFU) we have heard a striking new feature of the PS3. The feature would be present even at the PlayStation Network but is currently still hidden.
It is a serial system which Sony will soon start working on. Since the root keys are on the street you can see every homebrew tool (including backup management) make it sound like it was made by Sony. This makes it so hard for Sony to detect and block gamers with backup managers.
The idea is that soon every Blu-ray disc, with a unique number, comes with a serial key. These serial keys then work only with the Blu-ray disc with a matching number.
Therefore, if you have bought a game and put it into your PS3 you will enable it using your serial key, and thus a signal to Sony indicates that you are authorized to play the game on your PlayStation 3.
Reportedly, any serial key may be used only five times, as many PlayStation Store downloads. Given the implementation, according to our source has already been done in the PlayStation Network, and three unknown input fields on the PlayStation Network indicates the probability that this system will be introduced is enormous." -
What's this going to do to the used game market?
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LOL thanks. Yeah that's the probalem I was thinking of too. EA has keys for used games but that gets too messy and complicated. Really...they just need to detect and ban the hacked consoles like 360 does.What's this going to do to the used game market? -
KillaCham. wrote: »LOL thanks. Yeah that's the probalem I was thinking of too. EA has keys for used games but that gets too messy and complicated. Really...they just need to detect and ban the hacked consoles like 360 does.
I don't think they can detect them to ban them, and that's the problem. -
Used game market is dead for the PS3 then....
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PSN-Canibuss wrote: »Used game market is dead for the PS3 then....
If that works, the other brands may follow suit. ? two birds with one stone, eliminate piracy and ? the used game market (which they have wanted to do for some time - EA has already started). -
woah what about the gamestop employees that open games , play them before release date and seal them and sell em as new again?
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Will this prevent DLC sharing?
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I'm mad that the PS3 finally got hacked into really, it's ? . It's laid room to completely ? CoD: MW, MW2 and WaW. All of those are hacked to ? now. Activision isn't gonna do anything either. So they'll continue to sell the games but not fix the online hacked ? . They say, "we can't". This ruins the game for those who want to play online still or who still haven't played online. Not to mention what other future games will be hacked then? What about a future title that plays online and it gets hacked? What if they can't do anything about it? Someone wastes $60 just to play hacked lobbies or games?
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Sony has a lot of work to do to completely prevent this. Because eventually it's gonna ? over other games other than CoD titles. -
I'm mad that the PS3 finally got hacked into really, it's ? . It's laid room to completely ? CoD: MW, MW2 and WaW. All of those are hacked to ? now. Activision isn't gonna do anything either. So they'll continue to sell the games but not fix the online hacked ? . They say, "we can't". This ruins the game for those who want to play online still or who still haven't played online. Not to mention what other future games will be hacked then? What about a future title that plays online and it gets hacked? What if they can't do anything about it? Someone wastes $60 just to play hacked lobbies or games?
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Sony has a lot of work to do to completely prevent this. Because eventually it's gonna ? over other games other than CoD titles.
COD4 has been hackable since before all of this -
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But Hacking is fun
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What's this going to do to the used game market?
hopefully ? it!
Giving up the PSN sharing will suck, but its the price to pay I guess. -
since wen cud u downlaod/copy games for the ps3 ???
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thats some ? if it ? up the gamesharing. 90% of my games are from gamesharing
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bcotton2000@yahoo.com wrote: »COD4 has been hackable since before all of this
Not hacked to hell, it's completely hacked from what I hear.
