UncleSporky
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People don't want online checks.
It seems really simple if they want to be fully pro-consumer. Every disc has a unique tag, you put the disc in, you choose to install, if you do so, it requires you to be online, it gets the tag, and that game is worthless until you choose to remove it from your profile, and Sony releases the tag back into the used market. This leaves the possibility of someone installing games, and selling them to someone who never intends to take their console online, but I don't think that's such a regular or concerning situation that it would stop it being viable.
An online check is fine when it's
a) not once every 24 hours on a system-wide level - this is only when booting games that have been fully installed
b) completely optional, since you can go back to normal disc operation with no online check
In fact the way I described it would allow for 100% normal operation the way systems currently do. If nobody does full installs, it's just disc play/trade/reselling as usual.
Because that would require an online check, like the Xbox One.
Optionally, which is the key difference. And no, it's not like the Xbox One, since it's on a per-game basis and only for those where you have done a full install for disc-less play.