http://www.robgroove.com Things I find funny or interesting Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:52:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/watch-out-ps3-hackers/3309/ http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/watch-out-ps3-hackers/3309/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:21:06 +0000 Rob Groove http://www.robgroove.com/?p=3309
PlayStation just made an announcement "Important Access to the PlayStation Network and Access to Qriocity Services Notice Unauthorized circumvention devices for the PlayStation 3 system have been recently released by hackers. These devices permit the use of unauthorized or pirated software. Use of such devices or software violates the terms of the “System Software License Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System” and the “Terms of Services and User Agreement” for the PlayStation Network/Qriocity and its Community Code of Conduct provisions. Violation of the System Software Licence Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System invalidates the consumer guarantee for that system. In addition, copying or playing pirated software is a violation of International Copyright Laws. Consumers using circumvention devices or running unauthorized or pirated software will have access to the PlayStation Network and access to Qriocity services through PlayStation 3 System terminated permanently. To avoid this, consumers must immediately cease use and remove all circumvention devices and delete all unauthorized or pirated software from their PlayStation 3 systems."I'm sure you'll remember Microsoft banned almost 1 million XBOX users from using their Live network for using a chipped XBOX so after this warning from PlayStation you can't be surprised when they ban all PS3 users [...]]]> http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/watch-out-ps3-hackers/3309/feed/ 0 http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/my-thoughts-on-ps3-hacking/3017/ http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/my-thoughts-on-ps3-hacking/3017/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:28:58 +0000 Rob Groove http://www.robgroove.com/?p=3017
So the news is out and has been for a little while now that the PS3 has been hacked and either soon or already it will be available ( I haven't bothered checking) it will be easy for the average gamer to hack their PS3, which I'm guessing will lead to cheating in games and piracy (possibly). All thanks to GeoHot, the dude behind the iPhone jailbreak who laid the ground work and opened the door to the PS3 for other hackers to come in and make them selves at home. Sony did try to combat this with the firmware 3.21 which stopped older PHAT PS3's from being able to install "OtherOS" aka Linux. GeoHot did apologise to the PlayStation community for causing this via his blog and then went on to declare war on Sony saying "I never intended to touch , but if that’s how you want to play…" (which is no longer online as he is in legal trouble with Sony). I'm sure there are a fair number of PS3 gamers in the world who have already jumped at the chance to hack their PS3's in the hope they can either cheat or play pirated games but [...]]]> http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/my-thoughts-on-ps3-hacking/3017/feed/ 0 http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/playstation-3-hacked/642/ http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/playstation-3-hacked/642/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:03:48 +0000 Rob Groove http://www.robgroove.com/?p=642
Playstation 3 Hacked! Thats right you read it right. News just in tells me the guy responsable for hacking the iPhone in 2007 at the age of 17 has now turned to the PS3 and he's done it. George Hotz (cambridge) wrote on his blog that he now has complete read/write access to the Playstation 3 allowing him to make it backwards compatible with PS2 games but he's still unsure on how to wield his new found power. It wasnt no easy hack. It took him "3 years, 2 months, 11 days...thats a pretty secure system"  He goes on to say he's not going to make some easy to use download tool so everyone can jump on the bandwagon. As far as i can see its still in the early stages of infancy and im  sure will be quite a while before we start seeing mod'd PS3's  all over the place. Is this the end? Does this mean PS3's can me moddified and we can get cheap games meaning you end up with every game that ever comes out but you dont play them as they have no real value and Great games dont get released as no one buys [...]]]> http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/playstation-3-hacked/642/feed/ 1