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The first game to be pirated on the newly hacked PS3 is…

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Not going to make Konami happy at all. In fact, if you really care about gaming and the industry, it shouldn’t make you happy either. It was only a matter of time until the PlayStation 3 was hacked wide open. Now thanks to GeoHot that time has come, and the inevitable flood of pirated games will be just around the corner.

The first casualty is Konami’s recent Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, which came out towards the end of last year. A group of hackers have released an image claiming that they were able to get Konami’s latest game to run off the PS3’s hard drive without a copy of the game disk; the PS3 thinks it’s running a PSN game. This is the first example proving that piracy is completely possible since GeoHot’s hacking of Sony’s console.

Fortunately for Sony and Konami, getting the game to run apparently required a lot of tinkering and is supposedly beyond the capabilities of most ordinary gamers. Still, that’ll probably change in the future and the team of hackers are no doubt simplifying their method.

While many people in forums and comment posts across the internet are hailing the hack as an achievement and example of how intelligent some people are, that’s really just a load of crap. If GeoHot only did this to flex his gray matter then he wouldn’t have made the whole thing public and available. He knew from the start that in doing so it would cost Sony a truck-load of money, but he did it anyway. His claim that he is against piracy just doesn’t wash. Not only has he damaged Sony as a company, but he has damaged the gaming industry in general.

I really hope that Sony tears him a new one in court.

Source: Games Radar

Last Updated: January 12, 2011

5 Comments

  1. Geohot must burn! Stealing is GARAAM!
    I’m sure his mom told him that!

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  2. Alex

    January 12, 2011 at 13:54

    Poor sony…boohoohooo
    If they’d kept the homebrew community happy then geohot wouldn’t have been interested. Either which way, instead of celebrating the fact that they put off the inevitable & coined it for 4 years, which is longer than any other console in history they now have their own useless pity party..read law suit. Stop crying sony… do something productive.

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  3. Parker

    January 12, 2011 at 14:00

    Yeah, except “celebrating the fact” is going to cost them lots, and I mean lots, of money. They’re saying Sony now have no choice but to release new hardware.

    On the other hand, this may drive PS3 sales, as the pirates will be more willing to purchase one, just the software sales will be in the gutter. I mean, the 360 was hackable on day one, and it’s doing very well so far.

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    • Piesangpiel

      January 12, 2011 at 14:19

      Not to mention the inevitable security risk that geohot and his band of ***** have exposed everyone to. I sincerely hope this little asshole gets raped in jail.

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  4. Speigle

    January 12, 2011 at 15:42

    Sony asked for it and deserve everything that is coming to them.

    And before Sony gets all high and mighty regarding stealing IP, or hacking computers lets talk about RootKits or maybe Immersion patent infringement, or maybe talk about how Sony stole the walkman invention off Andreas Pavel and kept him in court until a quiet settlement… or lets talk how Sony continued to sell dangerous batteries after they knew they could (and where) setting peoples homes on fire…

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