A friend of mine at EA told me about this. He was telling me that since mods don't really do anything aside from replicate boot routines and media verification, EA now employs a sub-channel something or other. Proprietary blah blah blah and Sony didn't develop it and won't buy it from them, blah blah blah, otherwise they could make anti-mod games or some other garbage.

Of course, he told me all this as if I understood it... He could also just be full of doo-doo, because he's like that... But he gets me EA games at a great discount, so he can talk all he wants...