Motorstorm Arctic Edge pulled from the Vita store, Due to piracy concerns

[Shellz]

Sony has pulled Motorstorm Arctic Edge from the PlayStation Store thanks to a homebrew developer announcing that the game can be used to execute unsigned code on the PS Vita.

Basically which means it’s step 1 for running pirated software on the handheld. But that’s not even the most depressing part.

No the worst part of the entire thing is that the section of code being exploited is the PS Vita’s ability to run PSP titles and allows it to play older PSP games.

Sony were notified about this exploit quite quickly after launch but for some reason a patch hasn’t yet been released which leads me to believe the exploit is a bigger problem than Sony realised and could lead to the PS Vita becoming the handheld of choice for pirated gaming.

It’s no secret that I hate piracy and now that legitimate gamers are directly losing out thanks to piracy I’m even more irritated.

Quoted LazyGamer

[GregoryRasputin]

Posted a reply to the article at the source:

'LazyGamer' does that also mean 'Lazy Journalism', this whole story is wrong and to be honest the lies you tell disgust the hell out of me

1.) This DOES NOT and CANNOT enable piracy
2.) This is a sm,all exploit that runs on the PSP Emulator on the PS Vita, the best it can do is run a few HOMEBREW games and emulators like Snes etc.
3.) This method CANNOT be used to run pirate PSP games, or pirate Vita games, it quite simply isn't possible.
4.) This exploit DOES NOT touch the Vita aspect of the console, this method is very similar to PS2 Homebrew running on the PS3, a couple of years before the PS3 was hacked and that exploit had nothing or did not contribute to the PS3 being hacked.

[S4BRE]

lol
*puts gregoryrasputin back on the chain"
DOWN BOY