Sony Planning Serial Keys For PS3 Games?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 21, 2011 @05:34AM from the keep-digging-that-hole dept.

Stoobalou writes "Rumor has it that Sony is looking to the PC games market to help solve its growing piracy problem on the PlayStation 3 — with the introduction of serial keys to its games. According to 'a very reliable source' quoted by PS3-Sense, Sony is attempting to address the recent revelation that it failed to properly secure the private signing key for its flagship console — leading to clever tinkerers producing third-party firmware that allows unofficial software and illegitimately downloaded games to run on unmodified hardware — by looking to the PC retail market for solutions. Unlike the PS3, the PC doesn't have a hardware DRM system built in to it — despite attempts by groups like the Trusted Computing Group, formerly the Trusted Computer Platform Alliance, to introduce such a thing — relying instead on software-based DRM and a surprisingly old-fashioned guarantee of a game's uniqueness: a serial key."

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Re:Rentals? by man_the_king · 2011-01-21 19:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hmm, funny how any anti-Geohotz post gets modded Troll or 0 (at the most 1) and ANY anti-Sony post saying "teh Sony izz ehval", "hope they go out of business" ,etc is eligible for stuff like "Insightful", "Informative", "Interesting" with scores of 3, 4, and 5.
Very objective of the mods.