It was bound to happen eventually, but I doubt anyone predicted it would be so fast. Users at eHomeUpgrade.com has reported success in copying and burning Blu-Ray movies and playing them back with Linux media-player applications.
Apparently due to a lack of Linux-specific securtity measures, programmers successfully loaded the game into the PS3 hard drive as an ISO and then played it back through Linux. There is no known occasion of playing back movies or games through the actual PS3 system from boot so far.
As with any mass produced media, piracy is almost inevitable. It will be interesting to see what Sony's response to this will be and what that will mean for PS3 users.
heh, thanks to the PS3 enabling Linux on it.. theres a nice download on Emulators for a lot of them too.
If you can get around that, you can play almost anything on your PS3 now. Mame, NES, SNES, Sega.. all that.
I really don't think they'll have too much of an issue with people dowloading their movies at least. Admitedly it'll be there, but I think that if publishers manage to use a whole 50 gigs disk for a movie there will be very few people downloading it in it's native format. I mean, I'm only allowd 60 gigs of transfer a month, even attempting to download one is almost out of the question.
This is a little bit outside my area of expertise, but if memory serves correctly, not only are BluRay movies not using anywhere near the 25 gigs available to them (Remember, 50 gig is a dual layer disk, and if you're not gonna fill up even half of that, why bother with a more expensive dual-layer writing process?), they're also using MPEG2 as the visual codec....
The bottom line here is that it won't be hard to squeeze down high def movies to under 8 gigs, which is respectable for some of us. The question is, do people really care that much?
Personally, I don't. I like my gaming hi-def and my movies... Well, easy. If something is available for the same cost at the same time in high def, then i'll go for it - ultimately though, the difference in image quality from standard def games to high def games is SIGNIFICANTLy more noticable in my world.
It could become a serious issue when hi-def rentals become common. Many executives quietly admit that the commonality of piracy by means of direct disc transfer (encoding music to MP3s and transferring DVDs onto PSPs and iPods) is far more common than internet piracy, but nearly unenforceable thanks to the many sources the average consumer has to freely access those materials, such as through libraries, schools, friends, and video rental establishments.
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