Game piracy is a strong force within the video game world. Because of piracy, developers, publishers and retailers have taken steps towards Digital Rights Management (DRM) policies and techniques that keep pirates from obtaining their material.
Some developers have even gone as far as creating pirated game-specific bugs to annoy the heck out of players. There's a new game pirating hack in the world and it's targeting the PlayStation 4.
The hack originates from a Russian website and has been pushed into the public by Brasilian retailers. The hack isn't necessarily a jailbreak for the PS4, nor is it a homebrew technique. It works like this: A retail PS4, with several games installed on it, has it's entire game database and operating system (including NAN/BIOS) dumped onto a hacked PS4 via Raspberry Pi.
The entire process costs about $100 to $150 to install 10 games and $15 per additional game.
The technique has been verified by Brasilian game site UOL Jogos. Writers at UOL Jogos had the hack preformed on one of their systems at a retailer in Sao Paulo – the retailer promished that Sony wouldn't know if they were playing "an original game or not." UOL ended up having 10 games on the system and two registered accounts that were part of the dump process.
Sony has yet to officially comment on the hack and have been sending cease and desist notices to stores, but we will be reaching out for more comments on the subject.
