To me, it doesn't sound very online.
There's a security code on the disk. When the disk is stuck in, the PS3 registers it(presumably on internal flash RAM), then deletes it.
No security code = no boot.
So you can't pirate software, loan out software, rent software, or buy used software, because the code is gone.
If they use a magnetic track, it also introduces a lot of room for farting the game up in shipping.
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Wasn't security one of the reasons they were going to use BluRay in the first place?
So this proprietary extension means one if its primary supporters doesn't think it's really as secure as claimed.
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Either that or they just want to crush used game sales.
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If that is true how would the unit know the differnce between the one it registers and a copy since both wouldnt have the code on it. Plus would it make it easier to pirate since you just need someone to make a device to feed it codes of games from a pirate data base and just copy the games onto a future blueray burner.