Meta introduces new anti-piracy measures for Meta Quest 2
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Meta introduces a new API that performs hardware and application checks, targeting piracy among other things.

Meta sneakily introduced “Platform Integrity Attestation API” which basically calls home to see whether the user has a valid license to play.

This means that to run apps user has to have online connection to perform an integrity test. Whether it’s only a test on launch or continues call home like Denuvo-like DRMs is not yet clear. This could also mean that modified headsets could fail to pass this test essentially closing down the device for modifications that could damage “platform integrity”. Not all details are clear yet but this doesn’t look good.

Currently it’s optional and up to app developers to enable it.

  • Dr. MooseOPEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    Honestly I’m not as optimistic as you are. Official API gives implicit permission for DRM. Right now if an APP did this it would be review bombed and suffer backslash. With official API it’ll slowly normalizes DRM and suddenly everything requires online.

    Quest is getting more closed with every release - remember when Facebook login was not required? The whole dev ecosystem is getting more complex with every update. This seems like an up-coming trend especially now that Quests main competition will be an extremely closed ecosystem of Apple. This will give Quest permision to basically lock down more.

    My bet is that a year in most of the apps will have this DRM though I’d love to be proven wrong. I love my Quest 2 and only use it to draw/sculpt when I travel and that would basically kill the device for me so I might be a bit over protective of my hobby here but it really sucks when you buy a thing and somebody else tells you how to use it.

    • @EatMyDick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Only the nerds care. There is DRM on every damn platform or there except gog and nobody cares because it works fine and they aren’t the users who just want to steal.

      You hear about a shitty DRM implementation like once a year. This is all just noise from pirates.

      • Chaotic EntropyEnglish
        10•1 year ago

        This is such a “why does privacy matter when I have nothing to hide” argument.

      • @scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        “Noise from pirates” is bullshit. Pirates generally tend to have a better experience with their media than legal users.

      • ThrowawayOnLemmyEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        They’re plenty of people who complain about it when it doesn’t work, but they don’t know why it doesn’t work, they’re just annoyed it doesn’t.