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The truth is, there was a new CFW (custom firmware) released known as Rebug ([link removed]). It essentially turns a retail console into a dev console (not fully, but gives you a lot of the same options that usually dev's only have access to). Anyway, this new CFW was quickly figured out to give CFW users access to the PSN network again via the dev networks. With a little manipulation of the URL's through a proxy server you could get your hacked console back online. Not that big of a deal, right? Well, it also turns out that some people over at NGU found out that you could provide fake CC# info and the authenticity of the information was never checked as you were on Sony's private developer PSN network (essentially a network that Sony trusted). What happened next was extreme piracy of PSN content. Sony realizing the issue here shut down the network.
So to explain it to the lay people... its not so much a "hacker attack shut it down royally" so much as "where did all the rum go? Someone stole it!" ?
how soon till you ps3 users commit a massive coordinated suicide in protest
The way I understand it, all the people I know that play PS3 don't give a rats ass about it and come over and play on my Xbox, so I think they'll be alright.
Originally posted by top
what the hell happened to alden
i remember a time when he wuz kewl
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