Tag Archives: piracy

George ‘geohot’ Hotz has been issued a temporary restraining order preventing him from distributing PS3 homebrew software. The judge granted Sony its request for the order which was submitted earlier this month. Court documents published by PSX Scene read: The court finds that SCEA has shown a likelihood of success …

Despite a report from games trade body UKIE yesterday claiming that four games are pirated for every one sold, Nintendo has claimed that video games piracy is in decline. "I think perhaps there’s been a ‘heyday of piracy’ and we’ve now seen a lot of rules come in to stop …

An ongoing UK court case against 27 individuals accused of illegal file-sharing has been withdrawn by prosecuting lawyer Andrew Crossley after he claimed to have received threats. Working on behalf of client MediaCAT, Crossley sent out thousands of letters to the accused ordering them to pay a 500 fine or …

UKIE has reported that pirated video games may have cost the industry around 1.5bn in sales last year. The trade body has reported that several publishers have claimed illegally downloaded games could outnumber those sold legitimately by as much as 4:1 – and UKIE director general Michael Rawlinson claims that …

Claims of a possible hack that threatens the security of the PlayStation Trophy system have emerged online. CVG reports that the homebrew application allows the user to instantly unlock all Trophies associated with a title, adding the accolades to their PSN ID. The Trophies are even given random timestamps so …

Mirroring the path it pursued when fighting last year’s battle against the PSJailbreak device, Sony has gone legal on at least two hackers at the heart of the current PS3 piracy drive. Kotaku reports that SCEA is seeking a temporary restraining order against both George ‘geohot’ Hotz and hacking group …

The first claims of full-scale piracy on the PS3 have surfaced on the internet. The development comes after last week’s serious security breach that lead to the publication of the PS3’s ‘root key’ – a code embedded deep within the console’s architecture that prevents unauthorised code from launching on the …

Just hours after going live yesterday afternoon, Apple’s Mac App Store has already been hacked by pirates. Bizarrely, however, the team behind the crack has said it won’t publicly release the exploit until next year in case it upsets developers. When the public do get their hands on the software, …

After news of a serious security lapse on PS3 emerged earlier today, sources are now claiming that the PSPgo is the latest Sony device to succumb to hackers. VG247 reports that hackers have successfully installed homebrew ISO loading software onto the machine from which games copied from UMD can be …

Following yesterday’s news that the keys to PS3’s most secrets cupboards have been published online, hackers have now released the tools needed to run a custom firmware version on the PS3. Kotaku reports that, for the time being, the exploit itself does not allow the running of either homebrew code …