PlayStation®Network General

[teh-gamer]

Simple answer is if you couldn't "game share" sony can and do lock certain games to people's PSN ID therefore making it impossible to gameshare, also anyone on these forums gives out thier PSN ID creditionals to any random person im sorry deserves to be hacked. I have a close friends account PSN ID creditionals on my machine and he has mine we "game share" all the time though we have both discussed buying our own content for our own use this is because we believe sony will put a stop to this trend.

[AnXa]

---

H0P5 wrote:

I've read an official statement declaring the fact it is not illegal.

And it says in details of the actual games whether you can share them or not

And if it was illegal you wouldnt be able to share with only 5 people.

---

I'd lke to see this "official statement", since I couldn't find it. Now this is mostly theoretical of course:

If it even exists then what? This fucntion is completely for personal use only. I have got the impression of this that if your PS3 brokes (1 activation license disappears). Then you get a new one and activate that new license (which leaves you with 3 licenses after that). so that you can use the material you redownload using your own PSN account. When your account is entered into new PS3 I guess it will automaticly use one of these "activation licenses".

Even if you redownload the material, you couldn't just use it right away. PS3 you downloaded the material needs to be activated device also. And only one whom can do that activation is you since you're not allowed to tell your PSN account and password to anyone. I guess it goes something like that.

The good thing about PSN is that some games are half-way DRM free. It means that unlike the Xbox owners whom need to use license tools to move their content on new xbox when it brokes, you need just redownload it to play even if your machine is not activated one yet. They sell DRM free music on iTunes too. But it doesn't allow you to distripute that music to bittorrent networks. Just because you can do it doesn't mean it's legal to do so.

Message Edited by AnXa on 06-08-2008 12:48 PM

[LFC1984]

Alize, that said nothing about gamesharing with friends and family.

[BiosNova]

Gamesharing is NOT allowed, people say you can share with up to 5 people. People who stop to think will probobly realise that someone's PS3 might break somewhere down the line and might get a new one, hence they are now allowed to redownload that game to THEIR new PS3, and if they get another PS3, they can do it to that too.

[Alize_82]

Gamesharing is illegal, it does not matter whether you are sharing with friends
or family.

[Saddler-JJ]

ahh well i wont stop gamesharing come and arrest me for it

[Gily]

Of course it is illegal, hence the reason why they updated their Copyright Protection on games with v2.4.

However, I do believe this is the case for multiple PS3's, I think multiple users are allowed to use the same game content if they are on the one PS3 as the new Copyright Protection enables this.

[Honey_Monster]

---

Alize wrote:
Gamesharing is illegal, it does not matter whether you are sharing with friends
or family.

---

Depends what you mean by illegal.

If you mean that it's against the rules of PSN and could lead to people being banned / having content removed / having civil action taken against them, probably.  I don't care enough to check as I will pay for goods if they are worth doing so (very little of that on PSN!).

If you mean a criminal offence (as I suspect most people here do), then no.  If anyone wants to offer an offence, I'd be very curious what they come up with.

[Lloytron]

I thought this was pretty obvious?

1) You buy the rights to play the game on your account
2) It can be played by anyone that uses your console
3) If your PS3 goes ***** up and you get a new one, you can download it onto that.

The 5 console 'feature' is just to handle DRM in the case that your machine buggers up. Gamesharing itself is illegal.

[FurryFreak]

Gamesharing is illegal, but the 5 activated ps3 business is not in case your system breaks. I have read cases of people having used the feature for 5 different machines that were in their household and when 1 broke they had to get sony to register the broken one as deactivated so that the replacement could be used as 1 of the 5 machines with the same games on them. It's stupid to give you're details to someone you don't know but the feature is useful so that you can play a game you have paid for on more than one machine that you may own. It's the same as buying a disc based game and playing it in more than 1 console. That said, it does give you the ability to gameshare, but as someone said just because you can doesn't mean it's legal. It's not going to stop me sharing with my brother-in-law though lol