piss poor compared to the other consoles from its generation
The other consoles, before you could pirate games, you need to crack the encryption (or find a way to run the copy) per title. With the PS3, you just need the encryption key for your console and you can burn any title you want and it will run like an officially licensed copy. The only deterrent to piracy is that downloading 50gb dumps would be more trouble than just buying a 2nd hand copy.
And that's just for pirating titles. With the other consoles, you can't go online without risking your console from being outed (and bricked/updated?). With the PS3, there's no way for Sony to find out if the console that's online has illegal code running on it (including non-game ones, like say, a rootkit that will help an individual access their servers), since the approach is not "trick the console into thinking that my unlicensed code is official" BUT "turn my code into an official one".
