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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 06 2018, @12:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the tilting-at-windmills dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Sony has filed a patent which proposes the use of blockchain technology as a way to supplement DRM (digital rights management) in PS4 games. Right now, DRM on PS4 games is handled by third-party operators, but it seems like Sony wants to take matters into their own hands.

[...]There are a few implications here for PlayStation owners. For one, the future of being able to play a game on your friend’s consoles with your account (something which is currently allowed by Sony) is uncertain. Since blockchain authentication is more secure, and since ownership is repeatedly verified along the blockchain, there’s a chance only the purchasing user will be able to play games or consume other digital media on their device. There’s also the question of whether a user’s console will need to run the DRM process itself, and if so, whether any power will be taken up by this process.

Because everything's better with blockchain!

Source: https://techraptor.net/content/sony-files-patent-for-blockchain-based-drm-on-games


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @07:59AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @07:59AM (#676295)

    I get the idea the business-types are taking our love for computer-game playing for granted.

    Maybe if they "sour the milk" enough, kids will give it up and computer games become about as popular as my dad's old raccoon coat.

    I remember when MySpace was all the rage... and Yahoo. The business types could not resist killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. Highly paid people tried to shoehorn yet more and more irritations to the site. Eventually, someone else came by and took their unwanted audience.

    This would save us both a lot of irritation. Business won't have to worry about DRM, cause their stuff becomes about as interesting as a ball of used gum on the bottom of the desk, sit there for years, perfectly safe, and the kids will find something better to do.

    I remember when I used to spend every free hour watching TV. Now, I have a fine TV, excellent picture and sound, and its covered in dust. The commercials simply got so numerous and onerous that I found other things to do, and the TV is about to go back in its box to the attic. Its only saving graces are that it has a VGA input and will run on 12 volts DC. My Arduino will drive it. Main reason I keep it is for earthquake/disaster preparedness, where AM/FM radio and OTA TV may be the only mass distribution news channels available.

    Side note: I am quite well aware that the tiniest earthquake will shut the local internet down. I was ON the internet when an earthquake happened around Santa Barbara off the Southern California coast. Both Time Warner and Verizon went down for about an hour. I did not even know it was an earthquake that shut it down. I thought I had just gotten another pesky virus. I suddenly went offline and could not get connected to either one. It wasn't until the internet suddenly came back that I discovered why it went down like that. Both of 'em no less.

    I talked to an AT&T guy about it, and he told me that was standard operating procedure. In the event of even a tiny quake, shut down power, so that in the event it was a forerunner of more aggressive shaking, the equipment won't suffer fault currents due to ruptured wiring and inductive load dumps should the quake interrupt a highly inductive load.

    Taught me that if I was thinking of depending on our technology to help me, better think again.

    Maybe I should consider the HughesNet Gen 5, as they have a $45/month plan with no games ( yeh, literally, the latency sucks for gaming ). But I am pretty sure that one is going to work when I need it. Having finicky internet is about as irritating to me as having a car that sometimes won't start. I am of the belief that we are due for our earthquake, probably starting at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, but no telling wherebouts the fractures will occur - and I don't wanna be cut off from everything if that happens, rather I would much rather be in the position of offering my still operating internet connection to my neighbors for skype calls and emails. I can always get 12 volts for the satellite receiver and router, and repoint the dish should it be knocked out of alignment.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @11:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @11:09AM (#676329)

    Oh man, I wish I had a raccoon coat.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @02:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @02:48PM (#676359)

    Satellite isn't great for Skype. It will kinda-sorta technically work, but the latency is annoying.

    Satellite isn't just always-on, but the occasional weather disturbances generally clear up quickly. Much more so than landline damage.

    Satellite is excellent for email and things like that where latency isn't an issue but fat bandwidth is good. It's even pretty acceptible for CLI remote work.