Sony and Used Games

[KingBahamut]

The Inquirer has an interesting piece about a new Sony Patent on a technology that may possible prevent DVD disc media users from using their purchased disks in other machines after they have used them on a specific reader. Commentary also available on Joystiq. From the Article: 'While many are aware of the double profit companies make on pre-owned games, this would ensure the death of trading games between friends and even going to a friend's house to play a little multiplayer."

External Links
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=(Kutaragi.INZZ.+AND+Sony.ASNM.)&OS=in/Kutaragi+AND+an/Sony&RS=(IN/Kutaragi+AND+AN/Sony
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27568
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000420067137/

More Digital Rights Management crap from Sony. This scares me, it really does.

[Miguel]

This whole DRM issue is taking really frightening steps. First, there was that sysinternals blog about DRM and a rootkit in windows. Now, this "play it on only one machine or die". Come on! Not so long ago I thought I was innocent until proven otherwise.

I mean, really. Let's imagine this technology is used in PC software. What would happen if I owned this software and then decided to ditch my old PC for a bleeding edge one? Or if my CD drive dies and I have to replace it?

The technology world is looking gloomy right now

EDIT: I am even more happy from switching to linux (nearly) full time 18 moths ago. Let's hope this cancer never reaches linux (or at least in a significant way).

[openmind]

It's War.

One that we must all fight to beat the companies that rely on our cash to stop them treating us all like criminals, to stop them installing malware on our computers, to stop them deciding how we can listen to music That we have legally bought!

Today, Symantec and others announced the first viruses that use Sony's rootkit. No-one will stop this if we don't. It's up to us to stop this new wave of crass indifference towards the consumer, the same consumer that keeps these fools in business. They rely on our acceptance of the situation, they think of us as sheep.

Get active people, before it's too late.

[vruum]

hmm, I kinda like what sony is doing here, this is so stupid and restrictive and combined with their "audio cd's" new rootkit "feature" (http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12663) even non-geek people are gonna get offended, when their cd rips wont work, or their games play on their friends playstion. Sonys behauvior reads pretty much like an exposé that everyone, had it just been an EFF editorial, would have shrug off, saying, "yeah, but no company is gonna be that stupid".