[QUOTE="Granpire"]When PSP owners discover the same thing(it could happen), it would make many more PSP owners take advantage of it.MacSexy
However, DS owners have had similar things like this happen in pirating games, and not everyone has taken the route to buy the components necessary to pirate (though I will admit, this is a very expensive thing in cases like the DS, with the cost of the product added to the shipping cost and if you get multiple items from multiple places, you pay shipping several times over). Even more money if you're trying to import on a system like the PS2...PSP doesn't fall into this, true...but there's a downside to this master key just on the horizon.Personally, it's my belief that:
For the first few months people (who would have modded even without a master key if given the chance) are going to flock to it, because software will be released left and right...a vast majority of the rushed stuff not going through quality control, and many systems will be bricked as a result...gradually, the modders will get better, but there will be people will be pushed away from alternative methods of getting games as a result of this, because they'll either have to spend more money in buying a new system, or buying a method to unbrick it...last thing these thieves will want to do is spend money. Spending money on hacking tools, while being a status symbol in the hacker community, is money these guys want to use for other things.
Things will equal out...or Sony will discontinue the system manufacturing of the easily modded systems to stop some of the drain on the money. UMD based PSPs are the easiest in the group to hack because of the methods available to them (regardless of the master key issue, it's still a drain on Sony's income), so it will be no wonder when Sony finds the weakest link in them...add in a massive overhaul of an update,and equalibrium shall be reached once again.
I don't think it's something easily fixed. It's basically the keys to activate anything, literally. Any game, any homebrew, to make the PSP think it's legitimate, whether it is or not. What custom firmwares do is they allow the code to be run on the system. The master keys do the reverse, they would allow anything to be activated on a legitimate system, thus simplifying game downloads for anyone, without going through the trouble of modding the system. Thus, anyone could pirate games effortlessly. But I'm getting way to far into sensitive subject matter here, and the good news is, although the master keys have been discovered, they haven't been yet released, so there's not much to worry about. Yet. I think this discussion should be dropped. Sooner rather than later. 
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