I'm sure the hackers must have a desire to want to play a pirated PS3 game either for free or early code. If there isn't a desire then they won't go to the effort.

Why would a hacker want to play a PS3 game?

What do you mean demand? There is more demand to play PS3 pirated games than there is 360 games in Europe or Japan...

Sony has learnt well from previous consoles. The PS3 is probably the hardest console ever to hack due to bluray, the hard drive format and a number of other reasons.

Well done Sony.

I'm sure Sony will accidentally "slip" a firmware loophole in a future update so pirate games can be played on the system if sales for the PS3 continue to plummet.

After all, that's "not" what happened now with the PSP is it? As much as they deny it, ease of piracy shifts units.

Oh, a gaming blog site, Parental Control:
( http://parentalgui...o.nr/ )

ran a great article on the news story with the main culprit site itself, especially when said owner of said piracy site wrote back to Bethesda's cease and desist email with the line that'll probably go down in history: "Kiss our White asses, We are Pirates so deal with it."

"The PS3 is probably the hardest console ever to hack due to bluray, the hard drive format and a number of other reasons."

Not really, more like who wants/can afford to download over 30gb of code and burn it onto media that costs around £30 per disc. Basically the piracy cost exceeds the purchase price, hence the lack of any piracy on this system. People have shown that they can get pirated titles functioning, it's just that there is no demand.

Should have been PS3 exclusive. This wouldn't have happened.

It always amuses me that companies use Open Sauce software for their online offerings (LAMP), and some in their product offerings, (Ogg sound) (doesnt the ps3 use linux?) then they whine when they're pirated.
Seems like a mixed message to me - "all software should be free, but I want to be paid for what I write".
Try explaining to a teenager why Its OK to download PHP but not MP3, good to torrent MySQL but not Fallout.
Damned if I can.

(Prepare by for "MS Fanboy" flames) Fire extinguisher on my desk :-)

Not overly bothered. Its not a case of simply soldering a chip, its quite a a tricky process (the new Lite-On drives, which obviously arent unbeatable, are causing the pirates a few headaches to hack at the moment) and I for one wouldn't want to be constantly looking over my shoulder with the old LIVE "ban hammer". Being banned on LIVE or the PSN network would be a severe blow to me, seeing as it is intrinsically bound up with the gaming experience these days. Not being able to access new content etc. Feel sorry for Bethesda.