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Why Sony Cannot Stop PS3 Pirates 378

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 14, 2011 @07:29AM from the of-pots-and-kettles dept.

Sam writes "A former Ubisoft exec believes that Sony will not be able to combat piracy on the PlayStation 3, which was recently hacked. Martin Walfisz, former CEO of Ubisoft subsidiary Ubisoft Massive, was a key player in developing Ubisoft's new DRM technologies. Since playing pirated games doesn't require a modchip, his argument is that Sony won't be able to easily detect hacked consoles. Sony's only possible solution is to revise the PS3 hardware itself, which would be a very costly process. Changing the hardware could possibly work for new console sales, though there would be the problem of backwards compatibility with the already-released games. Furthermore, current users would still be able to run pirated copies on current hardware." An anonymous reader adds commentary from PS3 hacker Mathieu Hervais about Sony's legal posturing.

Comment Re:Software Rental (Score 2, Informative) 567

by HooDee on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @05:45PM (#28354167) Attached to: Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops

Using Firefox & NoScript? Allow scripts from slashdot.org AND from fsdn.com, reload, problem solved...

Comment Re:release date (Score 2, Insightful) 483

by HooDee on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @12:20AM (#27145779) Attached to: How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development

I'm hardly a fan of Windows

Well I don't consider myself to be an Apple fanboi either.

OSX 10.6 counts as a new OS release

Well uh.. yes? To be honest I really haven't paid any attention to the Snow leopard so I cannot argue with you on that, but for example: Tiger -> Leopard was a pretty big change. Just because Apple doesn't change every f**king thing everywhere in the user interface (XP -> Vista) doesn't mean there hasn't been major new features or improvements under the hood.

I'm hardly a fan of Windows, but that's kind of a odd standard to apply. MS could definitely keep up if they were making such minimal updates and charging for them.

What?? Isn't that exactly what Microsoft is doing with the Windows 7. As far as I know Windows 7 is the VISTA SP2. Everything under the hood is Vista. Or do you think Microsoft just rewrote everything in this sort time? Cut the amount of services starting at the boot process, cut down amount of programs installed by default.. do some user interface tweaks, tweak that a bit.. TA-DAAAAAAAAA. Ooh! Windows 7!! And I bet my tiny balls W7 ain't gonna be very cheap either and not to mention the 666 different versions of it. Sorry, I don't mean to start a OS-war but Windows does cause my blood to start boiling now days and as much I hate admitting it... I bought the Windows Vista. *gasp*. I feel so violated. But in more serious note, I don't understand the OS X pay-for-service-packs-bashing I have seen in couple of comments and the same time people basicly praise Microsoft for delivering the Vista as it should have been delivered in the first place.

And to Grammar Nazis:. I know, I know, my English "skills" suck ass.

Comment Re:IP35 (Score 3, Informative) 373

by HooDee on Thursday April 03, 2008 @02:50PM (#22954676) Attached to: Upgrade Trick Still Present In Vista SP1

Off topic stuff, but...

Yes I have. Asus P5K-E Wifi (Intel P35 chipset), 8800 GTS, 4GB, C2D E6750. AHCI on all the time.

After very easy installation everything works just fine "out of the box". Yes, even the built-in WLAN adapter, sound card, graphics card, compiz effects. etc etc.. The version I tried was 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha version something.

I did have a blank screen problem after booting from the installation cd, but it was very easy to fix. Just remove the splash -keyword from boot params in the boot selection menu.

After installation + doing dist-upgrade the splash problem was gone too. Apart from the initial blank screen problem installation was amazingly easy.

Sorry for my crappy English. I've been lurking around here in Slashdot for a long time now, way before I even created my account, but I tend to stay out of the discussions because of my lacking English writing skills, but this was something I think needed correction / another experience.

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