Oct 18, 2026 · 50 min · 14 segments
Who really owns the software you buy, and what happens when someone figures out how to recreate it? This week on User Friendly 2.0, we're diving into the growing controversy around Sony's PlayStation…
The past Sony executive, Shawn Layden, who was questioning Sony's decision, in fact, his quote is, if you can't own it, what are you buying? And this relates to Sony's decision to kill discs.
So what's going on here is Sony is finding itself in the middle of a growing controversy surrounding the PlayStation 5.
The company has announced plans to discontinue physical game discs for new PlayStation releases beginning in January of 2028, effectively pushing gamers towards an all-digital future.
But many consumers aren't happy about potentially losing the ability to own, resell, and preserve physical copies of their games.
Hackers and independent developers have been making significant progress, rather, breaking through the PS5 software restrictions.
One project called AnyPS5 is working to make PlayStation games run natively on Windows and Linux computers, potentially opening the door for better performance and fewer restrictions along the technology... being out there, being in its infancy, it is really growing.
So in the second segment today, we're going to be talking about this in depth, as well as software cloning and some other things that are going on, a lot of it with the use of AI these days.
But needless to say, the field is changing quite quickly, and I think it's caught some off guard.
The past Sony executive, Shawn Layden, who was questioning Sony's decision, in fact, his quote is, if you can't own it, what are you buying? And this relates to Sony's decision to kill discs.
So what's going on here is Sony is finding itself in the middle of a growing controversy surrounding the PlayStation 5.
The company has announced plans to discontinue physical game discs for new PlayStation releases beginning in January of 2028, effectively pushing gamers towards an all-digital future.
But many consumers aren't happy about potentially losing the ability to own, resell, and preserve physical copies of their games.
Hackers and independent developers have been making significant progress, rather, breaking through the PS5 software restrictions.
One project called AnyPS5 is working to make PlayStation games run natively on Windows and Linux computers, potentially opening the door for better performance and fewer restrictions along the technology... being out there, being in its infancy, it is really growing.
So in the second segment today, we're going to be talking about this in depth, as well as software cloning and some other things that are going on, a lot of it with the use of AI these days.
But needless to say, the field is changing quite quickly, and I think it's caught some off guard.
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