@Tony. I still have not seen or read of a hardware mod on the PS3.
However, Sony took that opportunity to release a security update that countered this, but it still works if you don't update.
If you check on torrents you will find the first PS3 games uploaded were in late August.
Please follow the links for the relevant articles.
@Wash Chipping is physically soldering extra hardware onto a consoles motherboard that alters its BIOS. In short it allows you to play pirated games and other things e.g the old xbox can be turned into a a media center through installing XBMC xbox media center.
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