Sony Files Load Time Patent To Possibly Combat Piracy On PS4

Sooo... What happens if the pirated software works has the same load time as purchased software?

I love noticing grammatical errors as soon as a message is posted... :P

"Execute media", obviously.

They have a similar problem with movies on ps3. The cinavia software, which protects against playing pirated movies, has also prevented some legaly purchased movies from playing on the device. I have had it happen to me a few times with some newly released blu-ray movies. I understand the need to protect your investment but forcing me to download the software via firmware updates, then taking away my rights to sue Sony in the agreement of said update (which if you dont agree to, you cannot play newer games), and to have the software fail to do its job porperly, is just plane wrong and quite annoying. I hope Sony is a little less of a dick next time around.

is it plain? or plane? I think it should have been plain :-) Plainstation 4...it's just plain and simple.

Sounds like all they did was took away incentive for pirates to put SSDs in their ps4. And even then there is no guarantee this would pose that big of a problem for pirates after a few months.

And remember the first ps3 hack literally involved you electrocuting your memory control to get writing rights.

I thought this was how it worked on PS2? Probably not as complicated, but something similar. Ever tried to do the disc swap on a game that wasn't 007? You had to watch the laser because it was performing disc checks at certain intervals.

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On topic, this could be a way to detect if the game is being loaded from an optical media, or an ssd, which would be much faster. And since most/all games may be downloaded and launched from the hard drive, and the laser/lens may start working bad, thus taking more time to read something than a 100% working lens, I guess then protection would be used, for example, to check if a CD or whatever media name , for example, 'ps4toolzz' is in the list of the 'good' names, like, for example, all the bluray movie titles, or music CDs, or movie DVDs, etc.

Even if someone gained access to the core components, for reverse engineer, etc, the moment the guy just connects a USB pen, or a CD, or a DVD, bad name? Brick time :)