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This news came out a day or two ago.

Article:
http://www.neogaf.com/index.php?option= ... &Itemid=32

My summary:

1) You buy a game. Sony makes money.

2) You sell a game to GameStop right now, and they give you some money, spendable at GameStop, or if you choose, cash. You make money.

3) GameStop sells that game to somebody else. GameStop makes money.

Sony essentially is replacing step 2 and 3 here with one nice little condensed step.

2b) You sell a game to a friend. Your friend does not pay you in cash. He puts the game in his system, and the system checks for authorization. If you have authorized the sale, your friend pays a used game price (to Sony) of which you recieve a percentage in entitlement points (spendable only to Sony). Sony makes money x 2.

so when you buy a new game and play it, it gets registrated to you.

You sell it to new owner(he gives you cash, or nothing, that's your deal) but he has to pay a small fee to Sony to be able to play the game(that fee gets distributed three ways, a bit to you, a bit to game publisher/developer and a bit to Sony).

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So this could be a pretty big deal to stores that sell used games.

This is old news, the 1st time I heard about it was in 2005! But that is still not confirmed to be true so we can't say anything yet.

I also heard this awhile ago... But from what i heard is that EVERYONE... Not just Sony is thinking of using this...

ssj100matt wrote:I also heard this awhile ago... But from what i heard is that EVERYONE... Not just Sony is thinking of using this...

I think its the stupidest thing ever.

1) Ceveat: No network connection = MASSIVE BREAKAGE.
Sony can't possibly do this yet.

2) Bullshit, pure bullshit.

3) Wasn't this debunked a while back? Wasn't it "an idea" then Sony said that it was just an idea and nothing more?

To Everyone: DRM is a great way to stranglehold the consumer (us) and it sucks. WE'RE the ones companies work for, CONSUMERS do not work for companies.
Boycott DRM (p.s. that includes iTunes, I don't care how simple it is to break).
I know of plenty of alternatives, for any interested parties.