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This Sony Patent Would Use Load Times to Combat Piracy |
Listed in: News Tags: hacking, patent, piracy, Sony
Piracy may be great if you enjoy using stuff for free, but it’s a major pain in the ass to companies. Check out this old Sony patent that would tackle piracy by comparing load times.
Sony Computer Entertainment America filed a patent in August 2011 that described a “method for validating legitimate media products.” While that was well over a year ago, the patent recently showed up on the net earlier this week.
As you can see from the patent’s flow chart, it uses an acceptable range for load time to determine if media is legitimate or pirated. If the media doesn’t load within an acceptable range, user info is collected and a secondary validation is performed. Examples of user info could be an IP address, location, connection speed, account name, or product license number. If the secondary validation passes, the media is executed. If not, the user is blocked.
Whether or not this technology will be implemented in the future in something like the PS4 remains to be seen.
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This is exactly what I was thinking. I remember my PS1 having increased load times due to the laser slowing dying.
I know it's only a patent but I'd be a bit confused if Sony actually implemented it. Like the comment above said, what's to stop modders matching the load times?
This would just penalise legit customers that have faulty lasers whereas modded consoles could launch games from a hard drive.
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Most likely, it would be the latter.
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its very clear in the diagram
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It would still be a pain as despite the fact you've waited longer for the game to boot (due to a dying laser), you'd have to wait even longer for it to collect (and no doubt submit) your data and then validate your system.
I don't know why companies even try to enforce protection any more because someone will always crack it. Their money would be better off spent elsewhere in R&D to be honest (and making sure the PSN doesn't get hacked again which 'fingers crossed' so far hasn't re-occurred).
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