For past month or so the PS3 has been "hacked" again. It has been very quite underground but people have managed to recreate the old firmware hacks to work on newer firmware (meaning they can play pirate games! Grrrr!)
http://www.nextgenupdate.com/forums/pla … its-hacks/ 
This link is part a very minor underground group full of quite novice users and it is quite amusing reading their "problems"
Also IGN has got an article about it
