I know that with the recent 1.0.2 update, the broadcast function no longer worked (previously on June 28th, they had disabled the ability to share screen shots and saved videos). Players were still able to broadcast the game since the last live stream I saw was around mid-July.
After the 1.0.2 update last week, I saw the complaints on 2ちゃん about the various changes and checked (I don’t use the SHARE functions but I just like to check things for myself). You could still save videos and screen shots (just not in Free Mode) but trying to use the Broadcast function in the regular part of the game showed a message that said you cannot use this for this application.
Thus my immediate thought was this was related to the patch (due to changes made with Free Mode) and something initiated by D3 Publisher.
Then while looking through PlayStation Live last night, I saw one player broadcasting the game. My first thought was that someone just deleted the application data and played the original release version of the game w/o updating it. So I checked and sure enough, the broadcast function is available again (and another player was broadcasting the game on USTREAM).
So it looks like this functionality is controlled by Sony and NOT D3 Publisher where it was indeed pressure from Sony (thus the Free Mode changes) such that they put a total block on sharing (including broadcasting) and re-enabled that (maybe after finally verifying the changes to the Free Mode portion they objected to). For players not being able to utilize a built-in function like streaming the game, it would not bode well for the game in general (thus why I previously mentioned this franchise being toast).
P.S. my friend says she wants to try playing this on PlayStation Live (to USTREAM or Twitch) so I lent her the game.
