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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, @08:02AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @08:02AM (#676296)

    I was trying to think of that company who used to bang the heads of our Commodore 1701 disk drives relentlessly against the stop, and knock them all out of alignment, as part of their DRM scheme.

    That was when I really got a distaste for DRM, and just the sight of that company's name on the software package made me put it immediately back on the shelf.

    Their games were fun, but it was far better to get the cracked one that did not destroy your drive.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @10:27AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @10:27AM (#676316)

    Commodore 1541 Disk Drive

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @10:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @10:41AM (#676319)

      Mea culpa... you are right... I must be getting senile.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @10:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @10:01AM (#676974)

    Oh come on did you not absolutely love how Ravenshield would try repeatedly to phone home in the middle of a lan game causing the game to stutter for up to 30 seconds, someones not stopping so you'd have to kill the game and restart. Good times!