(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); There are rumors flying about that firmware version 3.56 was not “minor” at all as it was described by Sony. There seems to be a neat little addition or two that was added to help Sony fight against homebrew that allows piracy.

First thing is that Sony has enabled the ability, that once a PS3 connects to the network, it can then verify the files required and/or bypassed from the newest firmware versions etc. There is no perfect way to forge this and even if code is written to bypass this option, Sony can still see PS3′s that connected to PSN without accomplishing this step giving them the heads up anyways. What this basically means is that if you have custom firmware then you will not have PSN access very soon.

Secondly, it seems that Sony has installed a trojan horse of sorts in your PS3 that allows them to control it remotely to force download proper firmware as needed. This one is a bit shaky and I’m not 100% sure of what laws govern this procedure if any. Basically Sony can see you are bypassing their firmware, they can take your PS3 and force it to download the newest firmware options. A bit of a touchy subject here, but brutal nonetheless.

So it seems if you want PSN access, stay away from customfirmware. This will at the very least fix the online cheaters, trophy cheaters and such which is a good thing.

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Completely illigal I am sure!

installed a trojan horse in our ps3? i dont think so

Wow a copy and paste. Good job dude. :n:

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That would be some pretty dirty news if it's verifiable.

I don't think anyone here cares, but I actually found one feature/fix I actually like about the 3.56 update. I use my Computer w/ PS3 Media Server for all of my HD Content and PS3's have always had a pathetic issue with streaming .mp4 HD content where it would stutter, skip, freeze, and really suck for fast forwarding/rewinding/scene jumping. That has been totally resolved in 3.56...

I know it's a small annoyance fixed and in the grand scheme of things the update sucks, but I actually found a shred of happiness in my accidental update yesterday. I guess I'll take the little bit of good with the bad and treat it as optimistically as I can. I believe this was just fixed anyway, I think I was on 3.55 prior to the update and still having issues. (which have been complained about for years on numerous PS3 and Home Theater communities across the web)

I use my PS3 for Media Server more than anything, this was HUGE to me and my girlfriend but overall I am disappointing I made the update although I know I wouldn't be able to stream .mp4 HD movies if I had not... I try to have only .MKV on my computer but .mp4 is starting to saturate the area these days.

I'll stay on 3.55 forever :carling:

i dont belive it because i had to do the update manually.

There is and option to enable or disable update automatically, but what would we do if they decided to remove that how could you stop the update then? :O

agreed 100%