Ben Kuchera, Gaming Editor, Ars Technica

PlayStation 3 Video DRM: Two Strikes and You're Out

September 22, 2008 at 12:02 am PT

The Sony Video Store on the PlayStation Network is filled with a good selection of movies, and you can’t beat the convenience of renting or even buying movies from your couch and watching them on your big screen with your PlayStation 3. Renting movies is a joy on the system–although it would be nice to have longer than 24 hours to watch the content–but what happens when you buy a movie? As one Ars reader found out, and Sony confirmed for us, you have to be careful about what happens to your system once it’s filled with video content: You have one download, one redownload, and that’s it.

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