First reported by Eurogamer, FromSoftware dataminer and modder Lance McDonald has revealed on Bluesky that his 60fps hack for Bloodborne has been DMCA'd by Sony.
It remains possible to remove Bloodborne's original 30fps cap via the ShadPS4 emulator on PC, but the decision remains a heavy-handed attempt at intimidating the modding and emulation community. «On February 21st, 2021, I created and released a patch for Bloodborne which makes the game run at 60fps,» McDonald wrote on Bluesky. «Today I received a DMCA takedown notification on behalf of Sony Interactive Entertainment asking that I remove links to the patch I posted on the internet, so now I've done so.» The patch in question removes Bloodborne's 30fps cap on original hardware.
As discussed in a May 2020 Digital Foundry interview with McDonald, this doesn't produce particularly desirable results on the base PS4, but the PS4 Pro is capable of running Bloodborne at 720p 60fps using its «Boost Mode.» McDonald characterized his work as a proof of concept whose general release he was holding back in anticipation of an official PS5 update to Bloodborne from Sony.
Such an update still hasn't materialized five years later, and McDonald made his own workaround available for download in 2021.
The legal basis for the mod's removal strikes me as highly questionable: The consumer right to modify software for noncommercial use has a strong precedent.