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Ars reminds you to stay cautious with the PlayStation 3 video DRM

Tyranitar24 | September 21, 2008 | Blog | Playstation 3 
The PlayStation 3 video stores allows you to rent and buy movies directly from your system, without ever having to get up. It all seems good, but if you somehow lose the content, you can only re-download the data once, and that's by calling a Sony representative.

No one knows why you're only to recover content twice, could be because the makers of the content demanded it. Nevertheless, Ars warns you to be careful when tampering with your hard drive memory.
Noise, a forum-goer, sent out a warning after he deleted some video content to make room on his hard drive and then found he couldn't redownload the content. The PlayStation 3 support page is perfectly clear on this matter. "Purchased content can be downloaded to a single PLAYSTATION 3 or a single PSP system," it reads. "Content cannot be redownloaded once it has been downloaded to either a PLAYSTATION 3 or PSP system."

You're allowed to keep the content on one system, and you can move it to up to three PSP systems, but if you have to delete the content for any reason, it's gone? Sort of.

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