Apparently hackers have turned Sony’s latest portable game player, the PSP handheld, into a device for online chat, Web browsing, and a venue for movies and music.

Leave it to hackers who managed to add an online chat function by hijacking a Web browser built into a racing game called “Wipeout Pure.” Once the hackers are able to change the PSP’s network settings, they can point the browser to a Web portal. There’s also a way for hackers to transfer TV programs recorded on the TiVo service to the PSP player, a program for reading e-books, and a viewer for comic books downloaded from the Web.

That’s from the email version of Tobi Elkin’s Online Minute at MediaPost. (These paragraphs are not on the online version.) So, how many minutes exactly did it take?

Should we assume that Sony will do everything it can to crush this egregious addition of value to its device? Or for once should I not be so cynical? [Technorati tags: sony psp drm]

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