Sony's new patent would detect piracy ... by load times?

Seriously, Sony?

Face Palm.

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I can't open that link atm, but going by the name I'd say there has to be something else behind it. Solely on load times? Sounds like straight up sensationalist bullshit you'd find at IGN.

it is not from IGN, its from joystiq

Apparently, this is meant to stop people who downloaded the game onto an SSD or whatever it is, because those would load faster than normal?

Still sounds like it could cause more harm than good, obviously. What if the console freezes somehow, or you press the PS 4's equivalent of the Home button and that stops the loading?

Sony is making some really fucking dumb decisions.

Couldn't you get around this by burning the pirated content onto a disk? Also, what happens if you download the game on the PSN? Sony, that's stike three.

Don't company patent things all the time that never make it to the consumer? Last time it something about a detachable controller

You'd think they'd learn that interfering with gameplay in a really annoying way when piracy is detected is the best way to stop piracy, but nope, have to straight up delete the game every time the player so much as looks at you funny.

edited 24th Feb '13 9:58:27 AM by ABRICK

This is hardly the first time Sony's patented something they'll never use. Last year they patented something that would interrupt your games to show you an ad.

edited 24th Feb '13 10:03:42 AM by Ryuhza

the mere fact they patented it tells you something though, does it not?

...That Sony patents a lot of things? In 2011 alone, Sony had 2265 US patents.

that too.

but what i am talking about... is the mere fact that they thought of making such a thing, which has so many problems i do not even want to count them.

edited 24th Feb '13 10:18:49 AM by SaintDeltora

Sony patents so many terrible ideas to keep other companies from using it in order to protect us

I heavily doubt this would ever get incorporated, the patent is probably just to keep it out of competitors hands.

wait a bit... so sony is trying to execute a less extreme version of Zero Requiem?

well, lets at least hope that is the case...

edited 24th Feb '13 10:17:48 AM by SaintDeltora

It probably is.

otherwise... i am never buying another Sony product. ever.

I feel like people are jumping the gun on this.

maybe we really are, in which case you gonna have all the right to mock us later on.

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I don' get it....