Back before running commercial PS4 games as package (PKG) files on retail PlayStation 4
jailbroken consoles was a 'thing' in the scene,
PS4 gamesharing and
PS4 modchips surfaced which led to some
Russian sites selling modified PS4 consoles that blatantly included packs of pre-loaded and activated games ready to play.
Fast-forward to 2018... Sony appears to
finally be catching on, as according to mainstream media outlets
Engadget.com,
Kotaku.com and
TorrentFreak.com Sony Interactive Entertainment recently filed a copyright infringement / DMCA lawsuit (
sonycomp.pdf /
Scribd Embed) against California hacker Eric David Scales (aka
Blackcloak13) for selling jailbroken PS4 consoles loaded with bootleg games on both
eBay and his own
Website.
Here's an excerpt from the
TorrentFreak article on the news, to quote: “Defendant is an individual who has marketed, sold, and distributed ‘jailbroken’ PS4 consoles that: (a) contain ‘p!rated’ (unauthorized) copies of PS4-compatible video games, and (b) were produced and designed for purposes of, and/or were marketed by Defendant for use in, circumventing technological protection measures,” the complaint reads.
Sony ordered two devices online and found that they were indeed ‘as advertised.’ The PS4s were modified to run an unnamed exploit which effectively circumvents the technological protection...