Pirating is not as easy as it is used to be. A sign that developer winning the race?

So Mass Effect 2 came out couple days ago and it is Xbox 360 exclusive. With only having a PS3 only, I borrowed my girlfriend's nephew console for two weeks, just to play ME2. Being in Indonesia, it is virtually impossible to get original copy, so I bought Mass Effect 2 pirated DVD. Once I got home, the DVD cannot play, it just gives an Xbox 360 logo and stuck there. Then I was told that I need a utility disk in order to play it.
The next day I bought the utility disk and it was true that the game works. Less than 5 minutes into the game, the disk gave an error and told me to clean it by cloth.
Then my friend suggested me to install it to hard drive. halfway through, the disk gave the same error. So maybe I have to go back to the shop and trade the disk. It is not just the disk, basically it's waste of time and it is a hassle.
My point is, playing pirated copies is not as easy as it used to be. I remember during NES, SNES, SEGA, until Playstation 2, pirated copies has no problem and run perfectly on the system. But now, with online era and more advance copyright technology, playing pirated copies sometimes is a nightmare.

Take Wii for example, sometimes new games cannot work on the console, and when you update to the shop, the previous titles stopped working. And Xbox 360 as I mention, gave a lot of hassle, the pirated copies is so low quality that you have to trade often.

And PS3 is considered the safest console in history. I admit that I am impressed that PS3 has stayed pirated free after all this time. Sure you might heard news that PS3 is successfully hacked. But the word "hacked" and "being able to play pirated copies" is very different. As I read several news, turns out there are still numbers of security layers that not been broken. So I guess it will still take quite a while for PS3 to be broken.
But even if PS3 can be fully pirated, then what? Most of games nowadays are online. Being online, means that Sony can detect whether your console is modded or not, thus can ban you for life from PSN like Xbox did.

So is this a sign that developer can win the race? Maybe, maybe not, but one thing for sure. It's getting more and more complicated to hacked a gaming console system.

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