It turns out that Wipeout Pure's
free content downloads were just a test case. In 2006, Sony plans to move to pay-per-downloads, according to comments
made by SCE's European vice president Phil Harrison in Edge magazine. This will be made possible by a digital
rights management system (similar to iTunes) that Sony is in the process of constructing. What concerns us is that new
features that in that past would have been included in firmware upgrades (e.g. the web browser) might end up costing us
extra.
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