PS3 Jailbreak arrest - world first in South Africa

[Willie Trombone]

http://mygaming.co.za/news/news/13294-Worlds-first-PS3-jailbreak-arrest-made.html

A Playstation 3 jailbreak raid took place earlier today at a residential property in Parktown, Johannesburg. Jailbreak devices are used to circumvent the security features on PS3 consoles to facilitate the playing of pirated PS3 games.

 

[Alan]

Eina

 

[Slayeruser]

one of the guys in my gaming commented that maybe the "lesser" criminals like the rapists, murders, gangsters and so on should be targeted at a later stage.

+1 on that comment, and a fail yet again for RSA police. Just shows it is all about money...... or would I say coroprations loosing money........

 

[BrokenLink]

Agreed that they should focus on murder etc, but if u cant ignore "lesser" crimes. As said in the article this was not a guy at home jailbreaking his PS3, it was pro`s doing it for money. Which I agree they should be arrested. They give us good pirates a bad name.

 

[tiandup]

Agreed that they should focus on murder etc, but if u cant ignore "lesser" crimes. As said in the article this was not a guy at home jailbreaking his PS3, it was pro`s doing it for money. Which I agree they should be arrested. They give us good pirates a bad name.

+1 We should be carefull these days

 

[MightyMuffinMan]

lol, once again the media misrepresents. They were raiding a guy who sells pirated stuff not a lone guy with his 1 PS3. And within any police force they have separate units doing different stuff.

 

[mpower111]

Best comment so far:

"andile on 02 August, 2011
ok, this is stupid if u ask me...so are they gonna go door to to door???lmao wats next????ppl getting arrested for having illegal music on their fones???"

Why oh why cant people comprehend. I think MightyMuffinMan ought to teach these fools.

 

[noxibox]

Well the article itself is deliberately misleading. But if the journalist didn't intentionally write misleading rubbish, then they should specify who told them the drivel they blindly repeated.

 

[I.am.Sam]

does this mean that boksburg fleamarket would no longer be open .....

 

[MightyMuffinMan]

does this mean that boksburg fleamarket would no longer be open .....

sadly no, only this guys stall/hand held table.

 

[dualmeister]

jailbreak USB devices

Soooo old school

 

[Fader4]

lol clone

 

[RazedInBlack]

Whatever!

 

[azbob]

Necro

Not been keeping up to date with this. Are versions beyond 3.55 finally jailbreakable or still not?

 

[phoneJunky]

No, I don't think so. Looked at this again about 2 months back, so don't know if something happened in that time.

 

[MightyMuffinMan]

one of the guys in my gaming commented that maybe the "lesser" criminals like the rapists, murders, gangsters and so on should be targeted at a later stage.

+1 on that comment, and a fail yet again for RSA police. Just shows it is all about money...... or would I say coroprations loosing money........

Bit unfair seeing as how the SAPS has different investigative divisions etc like cyber crime. I dont think a fraud detective is gonna be breaking down doors. Different people allocated to different departments.

 

[OGroteKoning]

A progskeet device will enable you to downgrade to 3.55 and then you can jailbreak away.