Region-free PS3

An anonymous reader writes "IGN writes that "In a QA session following the platform keynote address at GDC 2006 this morning, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios President Phil Harrison confirmed what was heavily demanded for import gamers all over the world and yet previously thought unthinkable for a major corporation: the PS3 will be region-free for gaming." There's no chance that the MPAA members would allow the same for movies but at least it's a step in the right direction."

Re:Not THAT surprising...

[DerGeist]

Backups are available at affordable prices.

Region-free, yes....

[Anonymous Coward]

Root-kit free, no.

All Property is Theft!

[YoungOnesTroll]

RICK: Oh, stop being so blinking bourgousie! All property is theft, Vyvyan.

VYVYAN: All right, then. Where's your girlie purse?

VYVYAN: [takes Rick's coin purse, removes some money] Ha ha! Found it!

RICK: You put that back! That's my personal property!

Re:Region-free, yes....

[cortana]

We will not let you go!

Re:A lot less than meets the eye

[Anonymous Coward]

The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

Re:Not THAT surprising...

[joranbelar]

I've got an ever better idea - people are likely to lose or misplace the disc if you only have to insert it every month or so, so why not just require the disc to be inserted every time the game starts up? The game could perform some kind of check to ensure that the disc is in the drive and authentic, by using some kind of "bad sector" identification that would prevent those nasty pirates from copying the disks bit-for-bit.

Sure, drive emulation is an option here, but I'm sure if you maintained a list of emulator programs, let's call it a "black list", you could check to see if any were running and then refuse to run if that is the case?

My God I may have just single-handedly solved the whole piracy problem!