PSP downloads won't be free for long

It turns out that Wipeout Pure's
free content downloads were just a test case. In 2006, Sony plans to move to pay-per-downloads, according to comments made by SCE's European vice president Phil Harrison in Edge magazine. This will be made possible by a digital rights management system (similar to iTunes) that Sony is in the process of constructing. What concerns us is that new features that in that past would have been included in firmware upgrades (e.g. the web browser) might end up costing us extra.