It busts the system wide open to piracy. I never mentioned that aspect because I have no intention of downloading up to 50 gigs of data just to pirate a game.
The more ominous aspect is that it opens up the online community to cheaters. Someone can take a retail game and decrypt the program code. They can then alter it however they want, re-encrypt and sign it as authorized Sony code. This will be much harder to detect and deal with than the Xbox live cheaters.
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