{"id":236206,"date":"2026-04-30T02:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/sony-says-game-license-verification-is-a-one-time-online-check"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:20:40","slug":"sony-says-game-license-verification-is-a-one-time-online-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/sony-says-game-license-verification-is-a-one-time-online-check","title":{"rendered":"Sony Says Game License Verification Is a \u201cOne-Time Online Check\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dR_MPkTlrN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Following reports of recurring DRM checks, Sony clarifies that digital games only require a single online verification to confirm ownership in a new statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports of recurring DRM checks, Sony clarifies that digital games only require a single online verification to confirm ownership in a new statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}