Tom's lets us know what's up with pirated PSP games

Love it or hate it, Sony's anti-piracy countermeasures
on the PSP aren't without aplomb, and Tom's contributor Scott Fulton isn't afraid to set the record straight for us
(with the help of homebrew guru Chris Gilbert) on what you can expect from bootstrapping off MemoryStick. Basically the sitch is this: the PSP pulls the encrypted binary data off the disk, and decrypts in real time what it expects to be coming off that drive. Meaning, unless you can decrypt the data (which you most likely can't) then you won't be able to rewrite the game to read the data off the MemoryStick instead. In other words, Sony's got their racket locked up tight (for now), so unless someone whips up a UMD bootleg setup sometime soon, we're probably stuck actually,
um, you know, buying our games not playing homebrews.

[Via I4U]