The recent outbreak of piracy on the PlayStation 3 has forced Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch to "turn on" the security measures it has built into the game for that specific platform.
The PlayStation 3 was pretty much piracy-free for quite a long time, but in recent months, things became extremely hectic, with hackers finding the system's master decryption key, effectively unlocking it permanently, without the necessity of jailbreak devices or other such things.
Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch knew this day would come, and added certain security measures in
the PlayStation 3 edition of the game, which have now been turned on.
Speaking with Nowgamer, Treyarch Community Manager Josh Olin detailed how the process went down.
"As a platform provider this problem is much graver and has much broader implications to Sony than it does to us," said Olin.
"To us, it's like, it has implications on our game security but we built in a lot of in-game security that we were leveraging and utilizing so it was kinda like flipping on a switch for that," he added.
"I remember the meeting after all the headlines broke, though, and we were like 'well, I guess, it's time to turn on the security for the PS3 now'!"
Many PlayStation 3 hackers were recently banned by these security measures in the last few weeks.
Older Call of Duty titles,
like Modern Warfare 1 or 2, are still being affected by hackers, however, as the games lack the built-in security measures, meaning their developer,
Infinity Ward, has to wait it out until Sony is taking more serious measures against hackers.
Olin says that while the hackers are being motivated by the homebrew goal, the majority of people will use the hacking tools to circumvent protection and support piracy.
"I mean, okay, that's their argument but they know the larger implication to the players who don't want that and the people who can now modify their game data."
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