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It allows you to copy pretty much anything, including "Apps" of which Games are a subtype. PSP hacker websites like Wololo are already poring over encrypted .psvimg files.

I know this because I own one, and I ran out of space on my 4GB Vita memory card within a day just by downloading games from PSN. The CMA is a life saver because I can use my PC as backup storage, essentially, without being forced to buy a larger, more expensive, memory card.

Of course, this just leaves the matter of convenience, which is why the performance of the media is such an annoying factor.

As for the CMA itself, it simply acts as a daemon once it is set up - there's no GUI and all file transfers are handled on the Vita itself.