Sony is going insane! Recently, it was discovered some Sony/BMG audio CDs are installing malware onto people's computers. Now there are reports that Sony has filed a patten on a technology that would prevent you from using a game on more than one console.
If this is used in the future, I will not bother buying any more Sony products. No game is so good that I can't bring it over to my brother's place to play there. Or can never buy used. Or cannot play upstairs and downstairs without moving the console around the house. Screw them!
Mind you, if Sony goes through with it, I bet if we give it a week some asian hacker will find a way around it.
- Originally posted on boingboing.net
New Sony lockware prevents selling or loaning of games
Sony has filed for a patent for a technology to tether a video-game to a console so that you can't sell it, loan it out, play it on a new console after your existing one is stolen or damaged, etc. Some speculate that this is intended for use with the PS3, but wherever it's deployed, it's very consistent with Sony's ongoing contempt for its customers. Once you've installed rootkits onto everyone's PCs, what's a little unfair trade practices aimed at killing the aftermarket?
The technology would allow an authentication code to be read and then rendered unreadable, making the software unplayable on any machine but the one which first read it.
DRM is often touted as "enabling business models" -- e.g., the business-model of charging you more money if you want a version of the DVD that you can watch in more than one household -- but here we have it being teed up to destroy the business model of anyone who makes a little bread selling old games.
If this is used in the future, I will not bother buying any more Sony products. No game is so good that I can't bring it over to my brother's place to play there. Or can never buy used. Or cannot play upstairs and downstairs without moving the console around the house. Screw them!
Mind you, if Sony goes through with it, I bet if we give it a week some asian hacker will find a way around it.
Posted by Stephanie Chan at 04:04 MT [ link to this entry ]
1 Comments:
At 12:45 PM, Jenny said…
Steph --
Did you see the latest news?? California, New York (1 lawsuit for residents plus another one to cover victims outside of NY state) & Italy have filed lawsuits against Sony/BMG earlier this week. I think I read that there are over 20 class action suits against them & that Internet 4First (or whatever it's name is) that created the software.
Thank you so very much for posting that article. Without it, there's no way I would have ever known. You rock!
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