As the Playstation Portable uses Sony’s proprietary UMD format, it appeared that this player would escape piracy. Well, a piracy group has managed to figure out a way to ‘rip’ UMD discs and extract the data into an ISO image. As UMD uses a standard ISO format, it is possible to burn these images as a standard CD or DVD. However, even though several game ISOs are already floating about the Internet, it is currently not possible to actually play these on a PSP since the PSP will not play DVDs and there is no UMD recorder either, let alone blank UMD media.
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while the inability to record the ISOs to UMD will prevent people from playing pirated ISO’s on their PSP for now, hackers have begun examining the extracted content in an aim to develop software that would allow an ISO to be placed on a memory stick and played from it instead. So far one programmer has managed to get their own unsigned software to run on the PSP using a memory stick.
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The first batch of games to have been successfully copied from UMD discs and into the ISO image format (a file type used to pack and store multiple files – in this case those files found on PSP UMDs) made it on to the internet sometime last night and indicate that PSP’s piracy-free days are numbered. While the games have been made available to download, there’s currently no way of actually playing them on your PSP, as no UMD writing device exists to perform the necessary action of creating a pirate UMD game. Read the |
This will surely be bad news for Sony, especially since their European launch will not be until September 1st. As a UMD can potentially hold up to 1.8GB of data, chances are that Sony’s upcoming games may deliberately use the full capacity in an aim to discourage distribution or at least require consumers to fork out for a costly 2GB memory stick to play the pirated ISO. It will also be interesting to see the reaction of the movie industry, although it is not clear yet if this ripping technique also works on UMD movies.
Source: MSN – gamesrader.com
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