Sony = Assholes part 2

[Robert]

Only a rumour so far, but knowing what assholes Sony are, I expect it will happen.

 

A patent has been filed, which will restrict a game CD to work only on the unit it was first played on.

 

Patent application

 

It is rumoured this technology may be installed in the PS3. It would stop you taking a disk to a friend's place; stop renting of used games; stop sale of games on ebay. If your PS3 broke or was stolen, your games would not work on the replacement unit.

 

What Joystiq said.

 

What The Inquirer said.

 

If Sony aren't sued first, I'm sure some smart person will produce a hardware mod to overcome this misuse of technology.

[OverlordMondo]

What the crap? What a bunch of flocktards. Bunch of money hungry bastards. It'll never work though, surely no one is stupid enough to implement such a system.

[Weirdy]

c'mon rob http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15672

[Robert]

That's a different thing.

 

This one actually uses the CD player/burner to alter a track on the CD, to record the console's ID onto it.

[Weirdy]

well...as I said in the previous topic, the price on ps3 games should probably be low if they want have a good demand curb

[Gryph]

My theory about this is that it was filed in 2000 so if they wanted to implement it they would have already done it with the PSP. Companies are known to patent crap they'll never use just to patent it. It would be SUICIDE for them to actually implement this. People aren't that complacent yet to allow this kind of copy protection.

[Wizard]

WHOOOOOOOOOO WHOOOOOOOOOO RUMOR CONTROL NEEDED!

 

Just because it's a patent doesn't mean it will be used....yet.

[Agozer]

I read about this "rumor" yesterday and people have already cursed Sony to the lowest pits of hell because of it.

 

Although it's worth noting that Ken Kutaragi himself has hinted towards the fact that Sony's experiments with copyprotections and including DRM in their consumer products (on the hardware level or otherwise) has put a lots of stress on the company and it has cost them way too much resources already.

[Wizard]

Confirmed to be false.

 

For the first time, I'm actually defending Sony of their douchbaggerry

 

http://www.ps3today.com/Blogs/News/hqs/blr_925.aspx

[Bobdrakke]

Nice Find K'dash

 

http://www.ps3today.com/Blogs/NewsCom/hqs/...5.aspx#comments

Source: EDC Magazine

 

Sony's much talked about Playstation 3, rumored to be hitting the streets in 2005 will not be powered by the equally talked about IBM/Toshiba/Sony "Cell Chip". IBM have told Electronics Design Change Magazine that the Cell Chip may not be be available until 2007... Plunging PS3 into what we at X365 call a "big ole mess"

 

Whats is news to me is that PS3 won't have the cell chip until 2007 so if they release it early whats it going to be running on and what about third party games writing code for the cell chip? pushed back till 2007?

[Wizard]

It's PS2.5 until Cell gets released.