Sony out the severely reduce game sharing

[bearhawk72]

If you didn't know, when you buy PSN games for the PSP or PS3, it can be activated on up to 5 different consoles. As a result you could buy a game, give your info to another person, and they could log on to your account and download the game to their console.

As a result online groups formed where 5 people would all split the cost evenly, one person would use the funds to buy the game, and then the other 4 would use the game share account to download the game.

This is most likely considered abuse of the system by Sony(who most likely meant game sharing to be between a couple friends/family members). So as a result they have announced plans to change the system

-Starting November 18th: All games purchased from the PSN can be activated on no more than 2 consoles

-Games purchased before November 18th will still have the 5 activation limit.

Game sharing has been a gray area for Sony. I don't recall them ever officially supporting it, and there have been lots of reported problems of people setting up the game sharing and one of the members going in and changing the info so the others can't get access.

The limit of 2 now seems to be in case your PS3 kicks the bucket you still have 1 activation left to get the game back(I think games are tied to your PSN ID, not the console)