Are Sony gonna stick it to console users too ?
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| A PATENT may allow Sony to ensure that no game would be playable from any console other than the one in which it was first read. |
Worst case scenario is that you buy a game, launch it on your own console. A fortnight later luck has it your console burns out. If this came to pass then one possibility is that your new console wouldn't be able to play the game you only just purchased 2 weeks ago as your game was effectively registered to your old console.
DRM for Play Station 3.
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This may well be scaremongering ? But rumours about Sony's business plans that may have been dismissed a week ago may not be dismissed quite so quickly now.
Keep in mind that during the SonyBMG debacle the following was attributed to the President of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business from an interview in which he says
| "Most people, I think, do not even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" |
One of several places in which this quote is referenced: Link
On second thoughts, forget it, relax - Sony employ a team of skilled professionals lead by cutting edge executives with your interests at heart......
