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Sony Updates PS3 Firmware To 3.56 To Stop Jailbreaking
tekgoblin writes "Today Sony has released a firmware update for the PS3 console that will update it to version 3.56. This comes on the same day news broke on the restraining order against George Hotz (Geohot). Sony did not state that it would stop jailbreaking the console but we can only assume that it does. With this restraining order against Geohot we see the Streisand Effect taking hold again as the key spreads all over the net. This decision by the courts may also prompt more hackers to focus their time on the PS3 from other projects. Be aware if you update your system and you like to jailbreak or hack, you will probably be unable to after the update."
Actually, it might be possible after all.
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_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Because they place roughly the same requirements on buyers as Nintendo does. Buying a PS3 devkit isn't something you can just buy off eBay.
Remember: They don't make unlocked versions of devices because they absolutely do not want you doing what you want with your device. This is true for almost every iOS/Android/WP7/Console made.
And it was broken in one hour. Sony never learns. It's like they really, really, really want to believe.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
>>And since XBL is a subscription service they set their rules, but you agree to them by paying for the service.
Which is one of the areas that Sony is better than Microsoft. I'm frankly offended by having to pay $50/year to play Halo online with my friends. Or, more often, a small time duration subscription that covers the week or so I'll be playing Gears or whatever other Xbox-exclusive game I want to play with my peeps.
The Playstation Plus model is a lot less offensive: you can play the games you've bought, as well as paid your ISP for access, online, but if you want access to the DC Online beta, or free games or discounts each month, you can pay $50/month. I signed up for it to get Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, which I felt was a great deal for the money (free, with Plus), and it also allowed me to avoid playing DC Online, which I played for about 20 hours and found to be total shit, especially from a storyline point of view. Maybe not as bad as WoW, but shit even still. ("Good is bad!" say the evil NPCs.)
If you want to keep playing online while a custom firmware is released. All that is necessary is to plug in this as the primary DNS in your PS3 network settings:
67.202.81.137
And ta-daa, we're back online with 3.55.
Not exactly. The key can be changed by a firmware update, the problem is that it would break all existing games that use it.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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The key can be changed by a firmware update
No, it can't. It's written in non-volatile ROM, the only way to replace it is to change the physical ROM chip.
http://www.popfi.com/2011/01/06/hackers-unlock-ps3-master-key/ exerpt: "Well, when Sony was designing the PS3, they put the master key on the hardware of the PlayStation itself"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12116051 exerpt: ""The only way to fix this is to issue new hardware," he said. "Sony will have to accept this.""
There's plenty more if you wish to Google.
I hate to say this, but we've lost. The public has accepted HDMI.
Wikipedia is your friend:
This is HDMI
This is HDCP
Neither is mutually exclusive, and they're bad for their own reasons ;)
They've accepted devices locked in firmware.
All depends on what you're going to do with it. For example, I wouldn't mind a Netflix box with locked firmware; it'd be pretty sweet to be able to modify it, but Netflix gets their money from a streaming/rental service and I want to support that. I can always have my own unlocked media server thingamajig in addition to it, you know.
They've accepted Blu-Ray.
Yet again...
This is Blu-ray
This is AACS
Again, neither is mutually exclusive. In fact, you can rip Blu-ray discs provided you have the right hardware and AACS keys
They've accepted the iOS app store. They've accepted the Kindle.
I don't mind the iOS app store; it's not like you're forced to sell your applications in there, you know. It's pretty simple to just buy something that isn't Apple-related. Also, you can read DRM-free books on the Kindle IIRC, so I don't see a problem.
blah blah blah conspiracy theory
Yeah... I highly doubt it. As long as the world has people with common sense, it will always be possible to build unlocked devices.
"Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded." -Archbishop Fulton Sheen
I made myself depressed by checking. With a liberal definition of "useful", that'd be 2 years, 7 days and counting.
If you read just about any PS3 forum about firmware, you'll see people have wanted for YEARS simple things, like cross-game chat (ala XBox), PS2 emulation (or even PAY MONEY to buy them from the PSN store), auto-sync trophies to the PSN rather than having to do it manually. Simple, useful things. Sony even put up a blog asking "what do you want", and they've been told by (literally) tens of thousands of people. Nothing yet. Instead, we've had these "updates":
(sidenote: Holy shit, does the new Slashdot css actually remove the bullets from a LI entry? Why?)
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