Sony Forming Anti-Piracy Program

[karyuudo]

Source: IGN.com

Two new job listings posted on SCEA's website reveal the company is getting serious about PlayStation 3 software piracy.

Sony is looking for a new Senior Corporate Counsel and a Senior Paralegal for Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection. The main responsibilities include "assessing annual SCEA corporate anti-piracy needs and addressing the needs through developing and implementing an anti-piracy program."

"The program to be developed will require a strong strategic online component (taking input from and working with SCEA Marketing, SCEA Strategic Business Development Latin America and SCEA Product Development)," the listing reads.

The jobs also require "collaborating with other anti-piracy organizations, including those of affiliated Sony Computer Entertainment companies, Sony Corporation and the videogame industry's trade association, the Entertainment Software Association."

Other responsibilities ask for "overseeing anti-piracy civil lawsuits and providing support to law enforcement and intellectual property agencies on behalf of SCEA." Additionally, one of the requirements is having "knowledge of online investigative practices and online databases (e.g. how to find owner, administrator, ISP associated with a given domain name, etc.)"

Sony recently took famed iPhone hacker George Hotz to court after he and another group of hackers unlocked the PlayStation 3's security and later published the data online. Since then, homebrew applications to run pirated software have hit the net, and one of Sony's major first-party titles, Killzone 3, was reportedly leaked two weeks before its release.

Last Wednesday, the company issued a statement saying those caught using pirated software will have their console banned permanently from PlayStation Network.

"Circumvention devices and game piracy damage our industry and can potentially injure the online experience for you, our loyal PlayStation customers, via hacks and cheats," Sony stated. "By identifying PlayStation 3 systems that breach our guidelines and terminating their ability to connect to PlayStation Network, we are protecting our business and preserving the honest gameplay experiences that you expect and deserve."

[Nitro]

Sony Forming Anti-Piracy Program - PS3 News at IGN

Two new job listings posted on SCEA's website reveal the company is getting serious about PlayStation 3 software piracy.

Sony is looking for a new Senior Corporate Counsel and a Senior Paralegal for Anti-Piracy and Brand Protection. The main responsibilities include "assessing annual SCEA corporate anti-piracy needs and addressing the needs through developing and implementing an anti-piracy program."

"The program to be developed will require a strong strategic online component (taking input from and working with SCEA Marketing, SCEA Strategic Business Development Latin America and SCEA Product Development)," the listing reads.

The jobs also require "collaborating with other anti-piracy organizations, including those of affiliated Sony Computer Entertainment companies, Sony Corporation and the videogame industry's trade association, the Entertainment Software Association."

Other responsibilities ask for "overseeing anti-piracy civil lawsuits and providing support to law enforcement and intellectual property agencies on behalf of SCEA." Additionally, one of the requirements is having "knowledge of online investigative practices and online databases (e.g. how to find owner, administrator, ISP associated with a given domain name, etc.)"

Sony recently took famed iPhone hacker George Hotz to court after he and another group of hackers unlocked the PlayStation 3's security and later published the data online. Since then, homebrew applications to run pirated software have hit the net, and one of Sony's major first-party titles, Killzone 3, was reportedly leaked two weeks before its release.

Last Wednesday, the company issued a statement saying those caught using pirated software will have their console banned permanently from PlayStation Network.

"Circumvention devices and game piracy damage our industry and can potentially injure the online experience for you, our loyal PlayStation customers, via hacks and cheats," Sony stated. "By identifying PlayStation 3 systems that breach our guidelines and terminating their ability to connect to PlayStation Network, we are protecting our business and preserving the honest gameplay experiences that you expect and deserve."

lmao.

[lyons]

I'm not surprised, after all they have been saying that the will sue anybody that trys to hack the ps3.

just read this statement from 2007

"Unfortunately, hackers will try to exploit any hardware system software," says Sony Computer Entertainment America spokesperson Dave Karraker. "The best we can do as a company is to make our security that much stronger and aggressively pursue legal action against anyone caught trying to use an exploit in an illegal manner."

[ironhide666]

They have that guy and he's called george hotz

[Bluloa]

So Sony now thinks it can do the job of the movie and record companies better!

Sony are such sumb ****s its unbelieveable.

Why not do as EA do and charge people to go online? EA have the right idea, own a brand new legit game play online for free. Own a game without a new legit code, you then pay to play online.

Sure it wont matter to those who play offline, but look at the **** PSN and Charles threads, most people were desperate to ge online.

[danguy2009]

"Circumvention devices and game piracy damage our industry and can potentially injure the online experience for you, our loyal PlayStation customers, via hacks and cheats," Sony stated. "By identifying PlayStation 3 systems that breach our guidelines and terminating their ability to connect to PlayStation Network, we are protecting our business and preserving the honest gameplay experiences that you expect and deserve."

I love how they try to grab the attention of the majority of legit ps3 players who dont really understand the technological side of things and will assume OMG these hackers will hurt my ps3.

Sure their online experience in a couple of games may be affected but a couple of games out of thousands does not count as harms everyones expereince.

In reality sony just hurts themselves, if they just did a silent update then thousands of people that wouldnt have known about this still wouldnt know about this

So Sony. what about the thousands of people that only buy secondhand games and secondhand hardware. are they hurting others experience because you and the devs arent getting the money?. Are you going to go after them too?