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Originally Posted by danlisa
That's certainly a part of it. Who want's to pay out for a BR Read/Write Drive and then contend with up to 100GBs of data in one burn, not to mention the bandwidth usage torrenting this stuff.
However, that's not the real problem. There is no DRM on any PS3 disc. It's built into the console in the form of a 6 level encryption key. The decoder of which is on the disc, encrypted, and can only be read by the first 3 levels of decryption on the console, which in turn then re-encrypts it, through the last 3 levels, to the key set that the disc is expecting. 
This only came to light recently after a patent filed by Sony in 2008 was published. I read it and it fried my mind.
Bottom line is, you can copy & burn any PS3 game but your can never play it as the cyphers will never match. Sony got burned by the PS2 and PSP hacks, they made this console as attractive to the developers as possible. |
Cool. Gotta link to something on the patent? Sounds like a cool way of keeping everything kosher.
Until last Xmas I've not had a console in the house only PC's so I've not boned up on any of them. The kids and missus though bugged me to get a Wii so now they have one of those with a bunch of games. Gotta say I'm loving PC games even more after seeing some of the abysmal crap they are passing off over at Nintendo.
