Someone rich willing to share maybe?

Your best bet would be to open a personal PAYPAL account, and have you and four other users PAY for the items to download.  Then, only when you five have paid (funds are there), give out the login account information to each person.  They all log-in, and get the item(s).    That way a 4.99 game costs you all a dollar, once the money is in a PayPal account, the user can deposit it... 

Do this in ONE DAY, then you change your Login Password, so no one can steal from you.  Each time you all want to pay for an item, give out the password to the other four people, then change it.  Each person has to LOGIN one at a time, so allot 5 hours, and one person each hour to download, get OFF, let the other person, you get off, and so on.    YOU give the time to each person when to begin their login and download.  Someone screws with your stuff, you change the password, kick them out, and get another person.

DO not make the stuff public, you are asking for trouble.

I was thinking about something like this: we make website - where we can open forum - complete list of people who interresed to send money for this - for example - on paypal account - where we 'close' list of ppl who pay - we send email with all details - and open vote about wich games we will buy. - and open account, buy games -
About more than 5 downloads - some guys from my forum will check it right now - so as soon as posible i post You how many times You can download game

good point of view - I didn't think about something like this before.
Well - i think the best way to do it like 'it's look like nothing happen' is to make small comunity 'on You're own risk' - and.... if You want to risk and save money You do this if not....
And also there another options: mayby sony don't ban MAC adress, but do something about this in new soft.
And also another question is : if someone buy for example 10 PS3 machine... (who is that rich and mad?).... and want to install game on this 10 consoles as well? Do he can be baned?

INFO:
I found this on PSX Extreme (one of the biggest polish magazine about consoles)
Someone on it forum test how many times we can download: and its ONLY 5 times

Last edited by kumawaru (2007-07-18 19:22:44)

it's work like this:
1.You need to find a group of friend with PS3 - but You need to trust all of them [but no more than 5 ppl]
2. Oppen Wirecard account - and deposit some money there (all of You're give for example 1/4 of game price)
3. When You all had money on wirecard account - you need to open Ps3 account - that one - where You add wirecard as a payment methond - and the one that all of You can use)
4. And now one of You log in to account, buy game wich You want - start download it - and relog on other account on his Ps3 - then another one login on that account (yes - all of You need to create that profil on his ps3 - so all of You have same rights)
5. when One is re-loged -other can loigin and start download.
I and few my friends from ps3info.pl alredy use this method and - we're happy - we had group of 4 people - we chose game by vote, and we download it with small cost.

Notorious-Pimp wrote:

i dont belive this could be ture.. need more proof

you don't have to believe it but it's true

http://playstation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin … _topview=1

I purchased some downloadable game content on the PLAYSTATION®Network. Part of the product description says the content can be used or downloaded on up to five (5) activated PLAYSTATION®3 system units. What does that mean?

Answer
This means that the content that you purchased may be used by other users on an activated PLAYSTATION®3 system unit after you downloaded the content onto your PLAYSTATION®3 system unit. Some content may require the user to have a PLAYSTATION®Network account, and other content may require you to have additional game content that may be sold separately. For example, you may need to purchase a full game in order to use the character that you purchased on the PLAYSTATION®Network for the game. Please review the use restrictions associated with the content you purchased. The content may be played up on to 5 activated PLAYSTATION®3 system units at any one time. PLAYSTATION®3 system units may be deactivated so that you can change which PLAYSTATION®3 system units are activated at any time.

there's a problem with this. The moment you delete yr "friend's" profile from your PS3, the games wont launch, giving you some copyright error.

Hmm I might try this...

So your gonna buy the stuff and then let me download?

Interesting Observation.

I'm on 1.51, and I downloaded Castlevania: SotN, and it won't let me install it. I'm using the sharing trick, and my friend bought the game. Mortal Kombat 2 and Gauntlet work fine, but Castlevania fails to install. I download it 100%, then it just fails the installation portion.

The game was just added to the store this week, so could they have denied installation access to users with lower firmware?

It's odd because, I thought it would atleast install and show up under the games but fail to launch, but it doesn't even install!

My friend bought it on the US store. It seems to me that you need the latest update, 1.81 to even install it. .

Mishkin wrote:

there's a problem with this. The moment you delete yr "friend's" profile from your PS3, the games wont launch, giving you some copyright error.

There is a way to remedy this:
Under the account with the purchased game, go to 'account management' and use 'activate system'.
This gives your PS3 the authorization to use the shared content, without the parent profile, and you can then remove the parent profile (the one with the initial purchase).

Last edited by zeychin (2007-07-27 18:01:47)