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.

  • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    No. Read it again. I bought an Oculus Go. And at the time (2018?) I did not know it was bought by Facebook.

    • WhirlybirdEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      You not knowing doesn’t mean it already wasn’t a Facebook device. They bought oculus 4 years earlier.