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?

[deborak]

As the article said, they may have developed the code, but have not implemented it, so where's the offense? BTW, if you're dropping $50 on a game, you don't know where to shop, LOL.

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

I can see why they'd allow one of their R&D people to develop something like that, especially with the worry about piracy and maintaining intellectual properties. I also think they're very smart for not having implemented it. I can see several disastrous possibilities in that regard, not the least of which is what happens if your old PS/PS2/PS3 dies and you get a new one? Then you'd have to buy the games all over again. Plus it'd hurt the rental and used game markets. I would be very surprised if the end result of that wouldn't be giving their competition a helluvan advantage. I've never seen Sony be that stupid in terms of how they conduct their business.

It is interesting as an idea, though.