Sony has commented that it will reveal a special code to developers to enable them to put into their PSP games so that they’re unhackable for up to 60 days.
Sony hopes this will stop hackers although this new code is apparently only valid for at least 60 days. This means that after the 60 days the game will once again be hackable.
Here is an excerpt from a statement from Sony.
A lot of the stuff that will be announced at E3 we’re very excited about, because they are huge titles. And we also believe that there’s a way that you will be able to, not stop, but slow down the piracy in the first 30 to 60 days from a tech perspective. There’s some code that you can embed that we’ve been helping developers implement in order to get people at least to see a 60-day shelf life before it gets hacked and it shows up on BitTorrent.
That’s been the biggest problem, no question about it. It’s become a very difficult proposition to be profitable, given the piracy right now. And the fact that the category shrunk inside of retail.
