Sony patent to combat piracy by comparing load times.

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A patent describing a "method for validating legitimate media products" attributed to Sony Computer Entertainment surfaced this week. It was originally filed in August 2011, and the patent elaborates on a process by which a piece of media could be detected as legitimate (not pirated) by comparing two load times against a benchmark for the media.

As you can see in the chart above, the patent describes a secondary validation stage to which a serial number and the "user identification information" are checked against "reliable data, such as that sourced from the manufacturer or developer of the media title."
This information could include account names, location, IP addresses, the speed of the user's connection and product license numbers.

The secondary validation would account for load time errors caused by hardware issues, but would also be skipped entirely if the first cycle - the load time benchmark comparisons - checks out.

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ChugJugPosted:

MTV
SOG
Soulful
NaughtyNuts This is going to be bypasssed


Sooner or later, yes.


There are high chances, but we can't ALWAYS be 100% certain of it.


Yea, but with Sony, you never know.

They will make it umpn bypassable

PGAPosted:

MTV
SOG
Soulful
NaughtyNuts This is going to be bypasssed


Sooner or later, yes.


There are high chances, but we can't ALWAYS be 100% certain of it.


Yea, but with Sony, you never know.


Yeah, they will probably do something that will make it so that it cannot be bypassed.

PlusnetPosted:

SOG
Soulful
NaughtyNuts This is going to be bypasssed


Sooner or later, yes.


There are high chances, but we can't ALWAYS be 100% certain of it.


Yea, but with Sony, you never know.

PlusnetPosted:

yay
Mazur
yay
Mazur
NaughtyNuts This is going to be bypasssed


someone always finds a way around something so yes eventually it will be bypassed


Especially since it's sony. BTW, is the PS4 going to be free online like before?


I would assume it would be, dunno why they wouldn't make it like that again


If they start charging, they might lose customers. People really liked the PS3 being free online.


Yea, I don't mind paying for XBL, but I don't want to pay for PSN too.

yayPosted:

Mazur
yay
Mazur
NaughtyNuts This is going to be bypasssed


someone always finds a way around something so yes eventually it will be bypassed


Especially since it's sony. BTW, is the PS4 going to be free online like before?


I would assume it would be, dunno why they wouldn't make it like that again


If they start charging, they might lose customers. People really liked the PS3 being free online.

MazurPosted:

yay
Mazur
NaughtyNuts This is going to be bypasssed


someone always finds a way around something so yes eventually it will be bypassed


Especially since it's sony. BTW, is the PS4 going to be free online like before?


I would assume it would be, dunno why they wouldn't make it like that again

ZyphrPosted:

I don't like the idea of this.

yayPosted:

Mazur
NaughtyNuts This is going to be bypasssed


someone always finds a way around something so yes eventually it will be bypassed


Especially since it's sony. BTW, is the PS4 going to be free online like before?

MazurPosted:

NaughtyNuts This is going to be bypasssed


someone always finds a way around something so yes eventually it will be bypassed

Big-FootPosted:

Yea defiently will prolly be bypassed


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