• dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com
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    1 day ago

    but just like installing a PS5 disc drive, a PSN outage would have prevented first-time setup of something that simply does not require an internet connection.

    I want to address this section by the author. Should any old disc drive work offline? Yes. Do PlayStation’s? No.

    In the interest of saving money, Sony doesn’t pre-pay for the Blu-Ray Disc Association License, so they use the internet to know when to pay the license fee on behalf of the user. So from a legal standpoint by an entity which does not want to get sued, their course of action to save money requires this.

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      24 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if it uses an internet connection to verify the disk to try and prevent used sales or pirating

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        I read an article testing the same disc drive in multiple PlayStations and they continued to work. My guess is that Sony pays for console X to be able to use a disc drive when one is inserted, and then pays for console Y when one is inserted. They probably can check the ID of the disc drive, but they also probably don’t care that much.