Like if Sony would change is stance on physical copies, online is still on ps3 you know

Ok, I'll save the comment till later. Seems as though I jumped the gun.

It's coming. Whether you like it or not. DRM has already been implemented on Sony consoles. It'll be praised to all hell too, like share play has been.

That sentence makes my head hurt. So in order to extract a negative from your misinterpretation, you assume you're right and it will eventually be implimented, because DRM (as YOU still think it is) has been used before on Sony consoles. Then you go on to say it'll be praised to hell, based on an assumption, after you misintertreted this article and you would be right in the long run. But not only that, you then go on to compare our 'supposed' assumed reaction to Shareplay, as if in some way Shareplay was bad but we've now accepted it as good.

We praise Shareplay because it's brilliant and we don't worry about this DRM because it has nothing to do with trying to screw the userbase over. We leave that to MS.

I've got a sharper shovel if you want to borrow it. It'll save you a lot of time and effort.

Don't try to understand his logic. There is nothing to understand.

I mentioned that I jumped the gun on the article... The part you didn't bold... But I'll go on. 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_pass

An online pass is a digital rights management system for restricting access to supplemental functionality in a product by using a single-use serial number. Online passes are primarily intended to hinder or discourage the second-hand sale of a product, and to allow the producer of a product to still return profits from second-hand copies of the product.

This practice exists (or one very similar) on playstation 3 exclusives, no?

Shareplay was recived as bad when ms wanted to do it first. I'll dig up the posts later. Though the services are different, there are similarities. I'm currently posting from my phone. 

ironmanDX said: vivster said: WhiteEaglePL said: Huh. GG Microsoft. If Xbox beats PS4 this gen, $$$$, if it doesn't, $$$$ from Sony. That's a master-plan I was not prepared to witness. :O But let's see how it turns out. I'm a madboy. They can use the $$$$ to pay for the Bluray player and discs :) Then Sony can use some of the $$$ from that to pay ms for each android phone they sell.    It still wouldn't be enough.

Isn't that something to do with the Android OS? I thought Google is paying for that one and not the phone manufacturers?

What the heck are you on about? The only reason MS mentioned their family plan is because it DIDN'T EXIST until after they removed the ability for it to happen. If you've got something that might persuade people to accept DRM do you:

a/ announce it before you remove DRM

b/ announce it after you remove DRM

It was a complete fabrication to try and make those that were against DRM look bad, and for a while it actually worked because you got complete idiots who wanted DRM back. MS play their fans like old fiddles. It was BS just like when MS announce Twitch for the XB1 just because they saw Sony announce Streaming using the share button. That's why Twitch didn't launch on the system. They were waiting for Twitch to supply an app and THEN it was included. MS play this game all the time and the fans eat it up.

Jizz Beard wont be happy

The article doesnt give clear info on what DRM it is, neither are they sure its going to be even used on the consoles. Who knows, it may even be on the xperia phones or a specific app on any of them. Since the early Xboxone fiasco, DRM has become this sacred bad news to everyone and can be a clickbait for fanwars. Some dont even understand it up till now. Apple employed it in their itunes use and no one complained, it was how microsoft wanted to implement the drm that was in many ways wrong.

WhiteEaglePL said: Huh. GG Microsoft. If Xbox beats PS4 this gen, $$$$, if it doesn't, $$$$ from Sony. That's a master-plan I was not prepared to witness. :O But let's see how it turns out. I'm a madboy.

the same way if MS wins sony still get royalties from Bluray through the consortium?