Earlier this year, Sony updated their Terms of Service information with a blurb stating: 'Automatic updates or upgrades which may change your current operating system, cause a loss of data or content or cause a loss of functionalities or utilities'. Cinavia was added earlier in the year, but it's now an automatic download on the PS3 via firmware 3.41. Depsite the feature being present in the Spring months, with it now an automatic download on the PS3, it looks like video piracy will have a tougher time passing on the PS3 when it comes to select videos.
What Cinavia DRM Protection technology will do is create an audio watermark that will target pirates for movies. Detailed on the official site, Cinavia works in a way that it compares the "source of the audio to the format in which a movie was released, and if the watermarked audio source detects a difference, the movie will either be mute or not work at all."
The long-term effects of this new protection system will slowly be revealed, but hackers are already likely trying to find ways around this watermark system.
Source: Youtube
Thanks to Rook101 for the tip!
Comments
does this mean that borrowing someones copied dvd you want be able to play anymore
BS!!
He got this from YouTube PMSL !! And it's nothing new like the OP is trying to put out.
Cinavia has been on the PS3 since firmware 3.10, which was? released WAY BACK in November, 2009 FFS. Examiner needs some NEW news not OLD news, and maybe some more RESEARCH done before writing an article.
@wondererps3: No
@wondererps3
I doubt it, I buy region 3 dvd's all the time and I have to burn them to a new disc as region 1 in order to get them to play on the ps3. I've never had a problem and I've been doing it ever since I moved to asia (over a year ago).
This looks very familiar, perhaps stolen as i created this story......
haxnetwork.net/2010/07/sonys-copyright-protection-preventing-users-playing-legaly-backed-up-movies/
Stolen from haxnetwork, then posted on ps3news, seems to be the norm now, though very very, lame.
I dont mind anyway, so have fun :)
So disconnect your PS3 from the PSN before playing, and problem solved.
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