Sony PSP games crack alert
p2pnet.net News:- Have crackers managed to compromise copy protection on Sony PSP games?
Looks like.
"A few days ago, several PSP games appeared on the Internet in the form of ISO images," writes Jamie Delahunty on AfterDawn.
He goes on:
"However, there is no way for somebody to play these copies of the games on their PSP device just yet because you cannot burn UMD discs. The PSP has only been on the market in the U.S. for a couple of months but already several hacks and tweaks have appeared for it.
"Sony is trying to get more deals with content providers to offer their content in UMD format for consumers to view on the PSP console. While some content providers may be less likely to sign a deal with Sony if they think UMD discs are unsafe, existing partners have nothing really to worry about as has touted UMD’s DVD-like region coding, unique per-disc ID number and AES-based content encryption system as suitable protection for UMD-stored content.
"UMD discs can hold about 1.8GB of data. But even though you couldn’t burn a UMD disc, one major possibility is that one day games might be loaded directly from a MemoryStick. You can get pretty high capacity MemorySticks now that you can use with the PSP and some of the PSP games floating around the net now are quite small in size for games; one of them being just 133MB. So a MemoryStick is a complicated but maybe possible method; more possible than actually making direct copies to UMD discs for now."
(Thanks, Del)
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AfterDawn – PSP UMD disc protection cracked?, May 6, 2005
May 7th, 2005 at 3:28 am
You don’t need to crack the DRM to make an ISO. Iso’s are just straight bit for bit images of a disk. Theyre data neutral, and can be made from anything readable by a computer, regardless of weather any programs or kernel extensions can recognize the file format.
This is why UMD drm doesn’t work, why HD dvd drm won’t work (even if it’s never ever decrypted). All you need do is rip it into a bit for bit image and share it.. other people can simply burn the image on the other end and play it right on hollywood’s own “authorized” devices.
May 7th, 2005 at 5:52 am
I’ve never tried copying a disc with media content and DRM directly on to another, so I could be wrong, but wouldn’t the hardware/firmware (unmodified) prevent playing original, unaltered content that has been burnt to a writable opital disc, through recognising that it is not a ROM disc?
May 7th, 2005 at 8:59 am
the point of an Iso image is that it’s a bit for bit image. so long as it’s the same media type (umd looks to me to be basically mini dvd’s) it shouldn’t tell the difference.
–There is a possibility there is an authentication mark outside the normal track areas.. but there are methods to copy that too.
—Considering there are no UMD writers though or mini dvd’s that i know of, I’m assuming the images would be used on some sort of emulator in this specific case (for the time being).