UMD less Patapon 2 ... a dangerous trend ??

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sapient said:

@xxain,

 

Since you quoted this story.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/21/sonys-peter-dille-thinks-psp-piracy-is-sickening/3

I am going to quote something from the comments (from another user )

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Feba @ Apr 21st 2009 8:20PM

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Sony, build the capacity to backup UMD games into official firmware. Use DRM to keep it from being copied all over the place. If you must, add a monthly disk check to make sure people aren't playing games they sold long ago. You just took out probably the largest 'gateway drug' into the world of unofficial firmware and piracy, made a ton of users happy, AND improved software sales (I promise you, if I don't have to carry around UMDs, there are at least two or three games I'll buy that I'd have to otherwise). You also don't have to worry about getting download rights this way. Additionally, the same technology could be applied to PS1 games (using the media manager and a PC's CD-ROM drive) to greatly alleviate problems with that-- I don't care much about the PS One classic store when I can toss a disk into my PC, rip it, and play it like that.

If you really want to go all out with fan-pleasing/piracy-stopping measures, create an iPhone-style Homebrew App store. You can put up the better games, the useful things (calculators, note takers, music apps) at minimal cost and let people have at it. People then have no practical excuse for developing custom firmware, and zero excuse for using it.

The first solution would take maybe a few days of coding to implement. The legalities are already clear-- you can back up your own media. You don't need to ask developers for permission to backup their games. The second situation would be more complicated, as you'd need staff to process games and lawyers to deal with contracts, as well as adding the facilities for it, and isn't nearly as essential.

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While I don't agree with all of his sentiments, this captures what I want Sony to do pretty well.

To clarify, I don't mind paying for PS1 classics from PSN. I am already allowed to play them on a ps3 and anything more would definitely be  a bonus.

 

 

That's so true.

But no chance to happen Sony is totaly paranoid about DRMs.