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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PGAPosted:

Maya Interesting idea, guess well see how this goes.


Hopefully it works, and that people won't be able to bypass it.

Soldier_Posted:

Interesting idea, guess well see how this goes.

OzarPosted:

Pretty cool this is :D

PGAPosted:

Woobie How do people not get this?

If it loads fast it is a real game and will play, if not it will be blocked.


Yeah, it isn't very hard to understand.

CearnsyPosted:

Woobie How do people not get this?

If it loads fast it is a real game and will play, if not it will be blocked.


I know they are trying to catch people who pirate games by the loading times

WoobiePosted:

How do people not get this?

If it loads fast it is a real game and will play, if not it will be blocked.

CearnsyPosted:

EMT I don't know what half of this means


Just look at it closely the boxes tell you although some of it is hard to make out what it means

HallPosted:

Thatch Im just looking at words..


Thats what I'm saying xD lmao

HallPosted:

BulletsModz This should be cool, but a lot of users don't understand this :/


I have no clue what it means haha

BulletsPosted:

This should be cool, but a lot of users don't understand this :/


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