{"id":15343,"date":"2011-11-04T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-makes-controversial-changes-to-psn-content-access-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/15343-sony-makes-controversial-changes-to-psn-content-access-policy","title":{"rendered":"Sony makes controversial changes to PSN content access policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Sony<\/a> fans, the days of playing your <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20187-Playstation-Store\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">PlayStation Store<\/a> content on an unlimited number of devices (okay, five devices previously) are almost over. I know, it&rsquo;s hard to accept.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;d like to inform you of some upcoming changes to the usage policies for <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19910-Playstation-Network-%28PSN%29\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">PlayStation Network<\/a> game content,&rdquo; reads the official announcement over on the PlayStation Blog.  &ldquo;As of November 18, 2011, the number of devices that can be activated on one PlayStation Network account for game content purchased from the PlayStation Store will be updated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, a user&rsquo;s purchased content is going to be restricted to two <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19888-Playstation-3-%28PS3%29\" target=\"_self\" title=\"System Information\">PS3<\/a>s and two <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19916-Playstation-Portable-%28PSP%29\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">PSP<\/a>s (including PSP-1000\/2000\/3000 series, as well as the PSPgo system), and applies to everything bought after 18 November.<\/p>\n<p>Users will reportedly be able to manage a device&rsquo;s activation status &ldquo;through each device&rdquo; itself, while Sony is also prepping to launch a dedicated website for device activation and deactivation.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably some limit will be set on the number of activations and deactivations allowed within a time period to preclude the obvious (if tedious) exploit in the system.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eu.playstation.com\/2011\/11\/04\/upcoming-change-to-playstation-3-and-psp-game-content-on-playstation-network\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"PlayStation Blog EU\">PlayStation Blog EU<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20147-Sony-makes-changes-to-PSN-content-access-policy\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Sony makes controversial changes to PSN content access policy\"><strong>Sony makes controversial changes to PSN content access policy<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchased content access limited to 2 consoles, 2 handhelds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}