From a very reliable source ( SKFU ) we have a striking new feature of the PS3 heard. The feature would be present even at the PlayStation Network but is currently still hidden. It is a serial system "which Sony will soon start working. Since the root keys on the street you can see every homebrew tool (including backup management) make it sound like it was made by Sony. This makes it so hard for Sony to gamers with backup managers to detect and block. The idea is that soon every Blu-ray disc, disc with a unique number, comes with a serial key. These 'serial-key then works then only with its Blu-ray disc with matching number.

So it will soon be so should work, that when you a game buys and PlayStation 3 do, you activate it with your 'serial-key "and thus a call to Sony to show that you are authorized for that game play on your PlayStation 3.Reportedly, any 'serial-key may be used only five times, as many PlayStation Store downloads. Given the implementation according to our source has already been done in the PlayStation Network, and three unknown input fields on the PlayStation Network, is the probability that this system will be introduced enormous.

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So we can only share our physical games a limited amount of times? Damn...

EDIT: No wait, I misread. You can't use a backup of a game unless it's on the right disc. Aaaaahhhh, clever actually!

EDITEDIT: But with online registration, so we can only share a limited amount of times? Back to "Daymn..." then I guess.

Why you crying Sony? The pirates aren't that much of a threat.

This should fix the used game sales problem in Japan, Microsoft and Nintendo should do it aswell.

If this is true, Sony really knows how to piss off its fanbase... and Gamestop.

So what about people who doesn't have their PS3 hooked on the internet.. they just won't be able to play new games forever?

That'll suck. I like reselling my games and buying used on Ebay.

I think i understand how would Sony implment this, you by the disk, you get the code to use that disk inside the box. fair enought. but i'm guessing that theres somthing on the disk that tells you PS3 its a genuine code, because not everyone has access to the PSN. so Sony cant use online firmware updates to tell your PS3 what codes are genuine, so thus that data must be on the disk.

this is a good idea, i'm buy all my games anyway, so that means it no problem because it takes what 30secs to type a code in, and i may lend a game to 1 or 2 of my friends, so its not a problem. and its nots Sony's fault, they're protecting the industry, protecting developers who really depend on the sales of games, because PS3 games dont sell like Nintendos, so there livelhoods are affected.

the only question is what this could do to used game sales.

Can someone explain this to me in dummy terms?

No i dont think so, because not everyone has internet access. i think the code only works with the disk. so say you buy God of War 3.

theres an algorythm on the disk that accepts the code you type in and tells you PS3 that the copy is genuine. however, if your not connected to PSN, i dont see how Sony cant know how many times you've used the same code, because the information on a disk cant change (its write only), so the disk dosent know how many times you've used the code.

any answers anyone??