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- Sony has filed a patent for an anti-piracy monitoring app on media players and TVs.
- The app would block or degrade the performance of sideloaded apps that allow pirated content.
- This would likely be for Android TV as Sony uses this platform for its smart TVs.
Sony is no stranger to fighting piracy, be it on the PlayStation side of things or in the music and video landscapes. However, the company’s latest anti-piracy measure could target Android TV.
The Japanese giant filed a new patent application to block piracy apps on smart TVs and streaming devices, Torrent Freak reported. Of course, Sony uses the Android TV platform for its smart TVs, suggesting that this anti-piracy measure could indeed come to Google’s platform in a limited fashion.