PlayStation loses prison fight to prevent third birthday party accessories from being purchased for its video games

Sony has lost its fight to prevent birthday party add-ons from being sold for PlayStation games.

The UK Court of Justice has dismissed Sony’s claim that the Motion Replay cheat tool acquired by British company Datel infringed its copyright.

PlayStation claimed that as Datel increases the importance of its source code, the company was infringing its copyright under EU law. The case was first brought to court in 2012.

According to EuroNews, the judges mentioned that Datel’s hacks “do not change or reproduce either the object code, the source code, or the internal structure and organization of Sony’s software,” but rather “simply change the content of the temporarily transferred variables.” for Sony games. to the console’s RAM, which are used while the game is running.

“The directive protects only intellectual creation as reflected in the text of the source code and object code of the computer program,” the court filing said.

“The Court of Justice declares that the content of variable data transferred by a computer program to the RAM memory of a computer and used by said program in its execution is not covered by the protection specifically conferred by that Directive, to the extent that said content does not allow said program to be reproduced or created later.”

In a non-binding opinion prepared for the case before this generation, General Maciej Szpunar insisted that it was not illegal to signify any copyrighted work in any way that may differ from the author’s intentions.

“The author of a crime novel cannot prevent the reader from skipping to the end of the novel to find out who the murderer is, even if that would ruin the pleasure of reading and ruin the author’s efforts to maintain suspense,” Szpunar said. .

The day before yesterday we reported that former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden, who served as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment in the United States and president of International Studios before resigning from the company in 2019, was asked if the company’s tidal business style console industry was sustainable, given the increasing construction costs associated with the continued pursuit of increasingly robust hardware.

“We’ve done these things this way for 30 years,” Layden responded, “every generation those costs went up and we realigned with them. We’ve reached the precipice now, where the center can’t stand, we can’t continue.” do things we’ve done before.”