[hchuang]

Why is everyone talking about reading UMD on a dvd drive, sony licensing 3rd party UMD re-writables, or etc etc. These hacks are completely counter-intuitive.

Without claiming to know all the technical details, I can already envision hacks installed on the Memory Stick that will enable us to:

1) Rip the entire game or movie off PSP to a computer via USB or the WLAN.

2) Run ripped content in some sort of modified package on the memory stick. There are already 2gb MS out there with 4gb or more coming in the future, so the capacity is hardly a problem.

3) Hacked firmwire that, using the USB cable, can connect to external USB hard drive or hard drive-based mp3 player(such as ipod) for transfering files. Playing video directly off the drive is possible too.

What i think is unlikely to happen is to actually have some sorta of pirated UMD discs running around, because it is expensive and unpractical.