ChiefsPlanet - Furor Over Sony Patent (LA Times)

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Originally Posted by Nightwish

How the hell are they gonna keep you from playing used games? I mean, if you buy the game new, then play it once, it's used! Does that mean that you won't be able to play your own bought-brand-new game more than once? I can't imagine how they're going to do that, unless they just start requiring product keys for everything, which is easy enough to get around.

I was watching G4 TV last night and that was where I heard about this. They were suggesting that the games might have some type of writeable area on the disk. Your system would write onto the disk the first time you played the game. Once it has done that, the game would not be playable in another system.