Sony Planning Serial Keys For PS3 Games? 283
Stoobalou writes "Rumor has it that Sony is looking to the PC games market to help solve its growing piracy problem on the PlayStation 3 — with the introduction of serial keys to its games. According to 'a very reliable source' quoted by PS3-Sense, Sony is attempting to address the recent revelation that it failed to properly secure the private signing key for its flagship console — leading to clever tinkerers producing third-party firmware that allows unofficial software and illegitimately downloaded games to run on unmodified hardware — by looking to the PC retail market for solutions. Unlike the PS3, the PC doesn't have a hardware DRM system built in to it — despite attempts by groups like the Trusted Computing Group, formerly the Trusted Computer Platform Alliance, to introduce such a thing — relying instead on software-based DRM and a surprisingly old-fashioned guarantee of a game's uniqueness: a serial key."
Why is this even here?? (Score:5, Informative)
When did rumors perpetuated by 4chan become news?? Someone posted this on 4chan a couple of days ago. Then it showed up on PS3-Sense and now it's on slashdot.
Lots of trolling going on....
Re:Real Old School (Score:2, Informative)
Or maybe like SimCity which had the list of codes that couldn't be photocopied.
I remember that. Didn't stop my dad, though; he copied the entire thing by hand, symbols and all, the entire list. Was one hell of a lot easier to read, at that.
And here are the keys... (Score:4, Informative)
Agu4shoh dae2oCha VieGhoh2 Gairoh5a
iak6Ou7i Wu0ATeit IrohT5ee Fu2neif8
Woh5OoWo Zoh7zah0 Jong1tav OB1oliuy
Aev2az4f il9phieZ AeM0uXah ESheika3
You're welcome!
Re:don't buy consoles (Score:4, Informative)
My video card is quiet, cost me 110$ 3 years ago and play most games on high settings, including garbage console ports. I do have most consoles of this generation (both portable and not), and i like them better than PC for gaming, but for other reasons. This isn't 2002 anymore. You don't need a powerful PC to game, and upgrades are often unnecessary. (Heck, it looks like my Nintendo DS will have to be upgraded more frequently than my computer to get all the bells and whistles, between the DSi for the store and now the 3DS for newer games)
Re:Doesn't This Require an Internet Connection? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Doesn't This Require an Internet Connection? (Score:5, Informative)
The only thing that will stop DRM is if people stop buying crap (yes CRAP) with DRM. We geezers did it in the late eighties; DRM on games disappeared entirly. Do you young folks have the balls? I'm guessing "no".