Recently, the Playstation 3 Firmware has been hacked, and as quickly as we found out, so have Sony. Speaking to Gamesindustry.biz, SCEA spokesperson Dave Karraker has stated that Sony will “aggressively pursue” any hackers who try to exploit the Playstation 3 system software. The new firmware hack allows you to boot illegal copies of games from the Playstation 3. As you may or may not know, Sony makes a loss on the console and a profit on the games so people downloading games illegally obviously costs them.

“Naturally, any use of an exploit on the system software does void the warranty on the PS3 system… Which could be a costly mistake to see if you can run an old SEGA CD game on it,” David said.

Considering that the hardware is very reliable and people don’t hesitate to downgrade their PSP’s in the same way, this probably wont deter a lot of people, but be on the look out if you decide to downgrade, you never know when they’re looking! :P