Except that's the thing:
1) PS3 still doesn't have piracy. Yes there's the PS3 jailbreak, but before people even knew about it.. Sony had a firmware upgrade out plugging the hole (As far as I know.. maybe stuff has happened since).
2) Piracy does lock you out of online. If you don't have the latest update, PSN won't let you connect
Well multiplatform games are around 8 gigs. Before you try, have in mind that everything you do on your PS3 gets logged somewhere in the OS. So SONY could have some system that check if those who connect online ever accessed a pirated game, so you can get a ban from PSN..
No need to do it in PM because despite what Sony think it's fully legal in the UK and i'm in the UK.
But I can only tell you how I used to do it as I stopped buying music a year or so ago when I deleted my music collection by accident and iTunes would not let me download my purchases again, so I had to download them from elsewhere - which left a bitter taste in my mouth.
I would purchase albums off iTunes then launch a program called Double Twist. I know since I used it DT has had a major overhaul and become more iTunes like but it should still do the job. I had some other tools for files in other media formats too, but Double Twist was ideal for stripping DRM off iTunes purchases as it was fully automatic. I just loaded it and left it to work for a few minutes.
Once complete I had some Windows script files I wrote which exported my iTunes playlists into a MySQL database I held on an online server, and sent the album art to a holding directory. I would run a program I wrote on which converted the album art to a uniform size & file format that then uploaded it to my web server automatically.
I would then use Sam Broadcaster to play my music, running off the online database - and at the time I had a web page for selecting the music I wanted to play which was driven by the album art.
As I was using Sam Broadcaster I could then redirect my music to a relay server for other people to listen, in effect created a radio station.
That's what happens when you leave a geek alone long enough... Anyway the stripping off the DRM was easy as there are already tools out there which do the job.
I never bothered to decode the file format myself as i've never been much interested in sound files or audio programming. I'm more interested in graphics & video.
It was faster, cheaper, and less hassle to pirate it. I already owned the songs so I don't see the issue... Not that I have an issue with downloading music anyway, I used to buy music to support the bands - but I see enough live music to more than make up for the fact that I heard about some of the bands i've seen from albums I didn't pay for.
I hope all you illegal downloaders are aware the the good ol US of A is riding in to save the universe from evil people like you.
On September 20th, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation — S. 3804, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act — that seeks to give the Department of Justice the power to shut down websites anywhere in the world that are found to infringe on intellectual property rights. This would be accomplished by ordering U.S. domain registrars and registries to stop resolving infringing sites’ domain names. While this bill has the noble-sounding goal of preventing online piracy, handing the federal government authority over the Internet would set a troubling precedent that would imperil Internet freedom in America and across the world. http://uruknet.info/?p=m70313&hd=&size=1&l=e
Now, this is the same good ol US of A who's CIA is facing a court case regarding pirating software. The results of which are Parkistan closing it's borders thanks to drone attacks which have hit civilians rather than their 'targets'. These being the same drones that the CIA are accused of stealing the guidance software for.
None of that will pass I assure you, So many users will cry independence.. then you have people who would probably just download the internet and run it off their servers.. don't ask me how.
