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Latest PS5 Update Makes Jailbreaking Very Difficult / As Sony continues to combat PS4 jailbreaking, the company quietly changed the way game licenses work on the PS5, ensuring that it remains one step ahead of hackers this time around.


It looks like PS5 jailbreak will remain a pipe dream for the modding community for a very long time following September 2024's system update.

As Sony continues to combat PS4 jailbreaking, the company quietly changed the way game licenses work on the PS5, ensuring that it remains one step ahead of hackers this time around. In the past, players could make illegal dumps of their entire PSN library and put it onto a USB stick for sharing, and mod/hack any game they owned. McDonald added that hackers were once able to access their PSN libraries offline and on jailbroken consoles, highlighting that players are essentially licensing digital games rather than own them.

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