PS3 piracy largely solved, says Capcom

Capcom's Christian Svensson says that Sony's moves to combat the PlayStation 3 jailbreak have resulted in the lowest occurrence of hacking on any platform.

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Piracy has become a headache for PC and console developers alike, but Sony's own action to combat PlayStation 3 piracy has been largely effective according to Capcom US vice president Christian Svensson. The PS3 jailbreak could have opened the floodgates for piracy on Sony's platform, but Svensson says their action paid off with the lowest rate of piracy on any platform.

"Piracy exists on almost every console to varying degrees," he told Eurogamer. "The only one I would say is fairly inconsequential to our business, as much as we can tell, is PlayStation 3. Obviously the PlayStation 3 was opened up [jailbroken], and through a variety of systems, Sony has managed to largely put that genie back in the bottle, to the point where the scene is nowhere near as large as it is on other platforms."

That's at least some good news for Sony, after its suit against PlayStation 3 jailbreakers raised the ire of hacker groups. They retaliated with denial of service attacks for days, before halting and apologizing to inconvenienced users. The suit may have also been an inciting factor in the PlayStation Network hack that took PSN offline for a month in spring. After all that, there had to be some payoff.

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    September 30, 2011 8:45 AM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, PS3 piracy largely solved, says Capcom.

    Capcom's Christian Svensson says that Sony's moves to combat the PlayStation 3 jailbreak have resulted in the lowest occurrence of hacking on any platform.

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      September 30, 2011 8:48 AM

      I think just by saying that he just challenged thousands of hackers to try and crack their shit again.

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        September 30, 2011 8:56 AM

        Why would hackers care what Capcom has to say? Wouldn't hackers like, already know what's cracked and to what extent that is?

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        September 30, 2011 9:06 AM

        ...the first rule of Piracy Club is...

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      September 30, 2011 9:04 AM

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      September 30, 2011 9:14 AM

      The PS3 has been busted wide open. Piracy may not be as rampant on the platform but the homebrew scene is here to stay just like it was with the PSP.

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        September 30, 2011 3:10 PM

        Whats up with the ps3 homebrew scene? Has any real progress been made? I kinda lost track of it but have a passing interest in it. I could care less about piracy.

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      September 30, 2011 9:15 AM

      Oh look another Sony (sure it's Capcom... but does it matter?) marketing snafu.

      /grabs popcorn and waits for the fireworks to start.

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      September 30, 2011 9:23 AM

      So why are people not wanting to believe this guy?

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        September 30, 2011 9:25 AM

        because just yesteday they hacked PSN games. PS3 hacking is very much alive and kicking. You just don't hear about it much anymore.

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          September 30, 2011 9:56 AM

          'Alive and kicking' is a relative term. And he acknowledged that piracy never stops completely. I still don't see a reason to disbelieve him.

          3 months ago everyone on the internet expressed total certitude that the PS3 was done, pirates win, game over, lol. Seems like people are just listening selectively at this point.

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          October 1, 2011 4:51 AM

          not that active though. people using it are stuck using 3.55 which is a hindrance to pirates who want to play the latest games. like if a pirate wanted to play Resistance 3 they would be out of luck.

          unlike 360 where the player can pretty much play anything they just need to worry about a ban from XBL if they don't want to buy two Xbox systems

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      September 30, 2011 11:53 AM

      ps3 piracy is just getting started... just wait till the solderless modchips that allow you to dual boot a cfw are released and go down in price.

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      September 30, 2011 11:56 AM

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        September 30, 2011 1:00 PM

        The solution: don't update your firmware. Wait until the scrubbed version of each new game is released, which removes the mandatory updates and allows you to play on older firmware.

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          September 30, 2011 1:00 PM

          Oh and keep a second legit PS3 if you want PSN that badly.

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          October 3, 2011 9:43 PM

          No. While true for a handfull of newer games that were signed with 3.5 keys, any of the newer games that require 3.6/3.7 are still unplayable by users who have kept 3.41 or 3.55 firmware. If you want to play most newer games you have no choice but to update and lose your custom firmware.

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