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Sony to Add Code Making PSP Games Unhackable for 60 Days After Release
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Today Gamasutra.com posted an extensive interview with Sony Computer Entertainment of America's Rob Dyer, who stated that SCEA is working on implementing code to make new PSP games unhackable for up to 60 days from release.

This news comes just months after Sony's recent effort to combat PlayStation Portable piracy through online registration requirements.

To quote: "A lot of the stuff that will be announced at E3 wee're very excited about, because they are huge titles. And wee also believe that there's a way that you will be able to, not stop, but slow down the piracy in the first 30 to 60 days from a tech perspective.

There's some code that you can embed that wee've been helping developers implement in order to get people at least to see a 60-day shelf life before it gets hacked and it shows up on BitTorrent.

That's been the biggest problem, no question about it. It's become a very difficult proposition to be profitable, given the piracy right now. And the fact that the category shrunk inside of retail."

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Heh, read about this earlier,  this doesn't sound too good for them pirates :/

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eh. i havent played a commercial psp game ive liked since crisis core.

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smart move.

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By unhackable do they mean wee can't edit them?
Well I suppose eboot decrypting (and whatever other methods hackers use to play current games) does count as a type of editting.

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I wonder exactly how they plan on implementing this protection ?   Hmmm

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Wait...isn't that what they did with God Eater and other recent games??
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(21/05/2010 08:51 PM)Mr. Shizzy Wrote:  I wonder exactly how they plan on implementing this protection ?   Hmmm
The same way they always do.

The "60 days" thing is marketing waffle.
21/05/2010 09:26 PM
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If they can do it for sixty days then can't they make it for an unlimited amount of time?

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this suck's for me cause I've never bought a psp game and I can't do that. Facepalm

(21/05/2010 09:28 PM)Mickey Wrote:  If they can do it for sixty days then can't they make it for an unlimited amount of time?

good point! Specky

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