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Homegrown PS3 hack PSGroove released

By james_fudge

While Sony may have the makers of the X3Jailbreak under an injunction in Australia (at least until this Friday), a homebrew alternative has already found its way on the Internet. The open source alternative called PSGroove has been released and - unlike an earlier version of the software - it doesn't contain certain features that could be used for piracy.

Of course, with certain features removed, users might not be as keen on using this solution as a replacement for X3Jailbreak. For starters, PSGroove doesn't allow re-routing of Blu-ray traffic to either the internal hard drive or an external device, which means that playing a backup copy of a game or movie is not possible.

So if doesn't allow you to play backup copies or games and movies, many may wonder what its usefulness is. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).