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One step forward but two steps back it seems…
Just noticed this article on The Inquirer…Clicky!
Seems Sony doesnt want people playing pre-owned games, not very nice of them in my opinion…
The technology would allow an authentication code to be read and then rendered unreadable, making the software unplayable on any machine but the one which first read it.[/quote:43ec746217]
The problem being it would take a hardware mod (I reckon anyway) to stop the console from reading/writing to this file, not something many gamers would want to have to do.Now of course this hasnt been confirmed as a PS3 feature or anything, just one more piece of news to come out of the rumour mill but an interesting one nonetheless…