Sony limits PSN content use on PS3s
For those who download content from the PlayStation Store using multiple PS3s, listen up. Sony Computer Entertainment has revised their Terms of Service to limit the activation of PS3s per account and to limit the use of downloaded content across the activated PS3s. Get all the details in just a bit.
Thanks John D.
For those who download content from the PlayStation Store using multiple PS3s, listen up. Sony Computer Entertainment has revised their Terms of Service to limit the activation of PS3s per account and to limit the use of downloaded content across the activated PS3s. Get all the details in just a bit.
The ToS changes apply to the PlayStation Store downloads, specifically:
- In-game items or content that you have purchased may be downloaded from PlayStation®Store. Pursuant to the particular terms of use that govern a specific in-game item or content you have purchased, you may use that item or content on up to three (3) different PlayStation®3 systems that have been activated for your account. You may deactivate or activate specific PlayStation®3 systems, as long as the maximum activated number of PlayStation®3 systems for your account at any given time is three (3).
- There are two sets of usage schemes for content, corresponding to two categories of in-game items and other content that you purchase.
- The first category, called Network Content, can only be accessed by one activated PlayStation®3 system per day and only by the account through which the Network Content was purchased. Network Content cannot be used on two different PlayStation®3 systems within a twenty-four (24) hour period.
- The second category, called Local Content, once installed on a PlayStation®3 system by the account that purchased it, can be accessed by other accounts on that same PlayStation®3 system.
SCE has yet to clarify the rationale behind the changes, but it appears we’ll just have to suck this one in.
Thanks John D.
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