Another reason not to buy Sony Play Stations

[thewayne]

"Sometime in 2000, Sony patented a process that would 'verify a disc as legitimate, register the disc to that particular game console, then wipe out verification data so the disc would be rendered unreadable in other PlayStations'."

So drop $50 on a game and be unable to take it to a party or friend's house without hauling your console? That sucks. Makes me glad that I can't play thumb-twitchers.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/193225

Comments

[zentraedi-shep.livejournal.com]

This is a totally untrue myth... I played my games on several differnt PS, and how should renting PS games work, if this was true?

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you read it carefully you'd see they said that Sony patented the technology, but haven't introduced it into their products. Yet.