The PS3′s hardware is complex and, more importantly, very expensive, so progress is slow.. only the higher-tier pirate groups can afford to trash PS3s left and right.

Xbox360 has long been cracked by now. The Wii piracy scene is also good.

PS3 games have been ripped and are available for download. They around around 5-10 GB each. Not bad.

Filling up the entire 50 GB with bogus data is useless. First, it will slow down data retrieval, annoying the legitimate user, and second, the pirate can simply strip away the useless data.

As stated above, on Dreamcast, GDs were ripped and had their FMVs reduced in quality (resolution) to fit the game on a standard 600-700 MB CD. Games were also split across CDs, so a big Dreamcast game would have its FMV stripped down and the game was split onto 2 CDs instead of 1 GD.

Besides, as size increases, so do Internet speeds. I download at around 800KB/sec on a standard cable connection. Fiber optics is getting popular, and T1 is getting cheaper. Hell, paying for T1 right now, around $120/mo, is still cheaper than buying games legit.

Not having a blu-ray burner isn’t really a problem. Hard drives are huge and cheap. My boss just bought 5 1-terabyte hard drives for $40 each at Best Buy. That’s 5000 gigs. So the obvious way to go would be to just keep all games on the hard drive, and stream them onto the PS3. This is what was done with Gamecube.

It’s funny actually, pirates get a lot of convenience compared to the average gamer, who has to get tangled up in serial numbers, removing and putting in CDs, and slow integrity checks.

For PC games, I usually use a no-CD crack even if I buy the games legit. Why? Because when you open a game, about 10-20 seconds are spent reading the disk to make sure it’s legit and available. Try a noCD crack.. everything works fine except this check doesn’t happen. So games like Warcraft III open up instantly. Double click, and sometimes I don’t even see the splash screen, I’m just at the menu while my friends need 30 seconds to catch up.

And as for supporting the companies… well, what can I say. I’m not hurting Sony because I would never buy a console if I couldn’t pirate games.. so there’s no money lost. I also know that 90% of people will keep buying games just because it’s too much work to pirate games. The only exception was the Dreamcast, and the first gen PSPs, but I doubt that’ll happen again.

This message is as simple as that…!