With Final Warnings Already Sent to the Alleged Affected
All indications are that Sony may be preparing a very large ban hammer in the coming days for PS3 owners running tools meant to circumvent the device, as well as those performing any other unauthorized use of the console.
This would include the Jailbreak codes released recently by George Hotz and fail0verflow, now at the center of a very nasty legal battle.
A statement released by Sony today suggests a simple account ban on Playstation Network will be in order for those refusing to confirm. But many owners of the console are concerned that could eventually evolve into an outright system lockout to the service:
Notice: Unauthorized circumvention devices for the PlayStation 3 system have been recently released by hackers. These devices permit the use of unauthorized or pirated software. Use of such devices or software violates the terms of the “System Software License Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System” and the “Terms of Services and User Agreement” for the PlayStation Network/Qriocity and its Community Code of Conduct provisions. Violation of the System Software Licence Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System invalidates the consumer guarantee for that system. In addition, copying or playing pirated software is a violation of International Copyright Laws. Consumers using circumvention devices or running unauthorized or pirated software will have access to the PlayStation Network and access to Qriocity services through PlayStation 3 system terminated permanently.
To avoid this, consumers must immediately cease use and remove all circumvention devices and delete all unauthorized or pirated software from their PlayStation 3 systems.
What this means to you
Circumvention devices and game piracy damage our industry and can potentially injure the online experience for you, our loyal PlayStation customers, via hacks and cheats.
Many PlayStation.Blog readers have asked how we intend to deal with these incidents that they have been reading about in the gaming press, and this is our initial response.
By identifying PlayStation 3 systems that breach our guidelines and terminating their ability to connect to PlayStation Network, we are protecting our business and preserving the honest gameplay experiences that you expect and deserve.
Sony has already started identifying users running unauthorized software, and according to a transcript of the E-Mail posted by NeoGAF forumer canova, permanent bans are already starting:
Important: Access to PlayStation ® Network and access to post Qriocity ™ Services
Access to the PlayStation ® Network and access to services on your Qriocity ™ PlayStation ® 3 system is permanently terminated due to illegal or pirated software and unauthorized devices on your PlayStation ® 3 system.This conflicts with the “License of the PlayStation ® 3 System,” and the “Terms” of the PlayStation Network ® / ™ Qriocity and their conduct. In the unlikely event that the termination was incorrect, please contact the Helpdesk.
Sony is going all out to protect not just its legal users, but its own system. All this, as the case against Hotz and fail0verflow evolves. It will be a wild ride, and we’ll bring you any pertinent developments from it.
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Fucking assholes.
Why can’t every one just buy the thing for what it is. They got to go beyond and hack it. It’s meant to be what it is.
@Koolsk8ter
Why the hell do you care what other people do with their own property?
@Koolsk8ter: Disregarding pirating games, which is illegal and shouldn’t be done unless it’s impossible for you to get a copy any other way, you should be allowed to modify your own system however you want to.
Take this metaphor: You buy a large stand to place your TV on top of. You want to have it in your bedroom usually, but you want to bring it into the living room when friends come over. However, you find that the setup is difficult to move around, so you add some wheels to the bottom of the stand so that you can move it easily.
You’re allowed to do this. No one’s going to tell you that you can’t and wheels to the stand, that you have to only buy a product for what it is. That would be insane, right?
Multiplayer games especially older games will be a nightmare if they don’t do this.
Hack and play online=ban is standard practice on console not sure why people think this is new.
@Dr.Eggfang: Agreed, people that hack online so they have an advantage are jerks and should be banned. I’m in the camp, though, who’s worried Sony’s going to eventually lock people out of their actual PS3s if they don’t comply.
You can do whatever you want with your system — doesn’t mean you’ll be allowed to get online with it, and for good reason.
And the ignorance continues. “Bawww, modding = cheating!”
Grow up, wusses.
I could not agree more about the cheating modding being a serious problem but modding your system to have stuff like Linux on it or to have it per say your own media server or what not should not be illegal! Now where I will bitch here is anyone who gets locked out of their system for putting a much larger hard drive in their system…reports have been saying some systems are correct me if I am wrong being bricked because people who upgraded their hard drives on their PS3 slims. I ask what is wrong with upsizing your hard drive???
As long as I can still see pirated movies on it, I don’t care.
Oops wait, I didn’t mean to sound like I pirated the games.
@frfrf
But you still pirated a movie, one’s not better than the other.
So what, is the issue about online cheaters or people upgrading their hard drive space through unauthorized methods? If this is about pirating games and movies, well gosh they should have seen that one coming since the time of the VHS players coming with the RECORD button option. Sony is making a mountain out of an ant hill.
@ChaoticFox
Yeah fuck us for not not wanting online games to be a bigger festering shithole than most of them already are because some dude just wants another console he can plays roms and Doom on! It’s easier to hook a PC up to a TV than it has been in years and it can do anything you want the archaic hardware in a hacked PS3 to do….oh except play pirated PS3 games of course.
No, Sonical. Go ahead and desire a cheater-free online experience. Who doesn’t? I never told anybody to fuck off for that (or anything else).
But fuck you for being an ignorant stereotyping douchebag. That’s all you.
ChaoticFox, shut the fuck up.
Aw, thank you for your relevant and productive contribution!
@Sonical: Do not talk if you don’t know what you’re talking about. I would never want to give up my game or system hacks. Why? Because my system is better and funner now.
I don’t have a PS3, but I have hacked my Wii, and I know that PS3s can do much more when hacked than a Wii can do, but even so I have much more fun with my Wii now than when I first got it. For example, for NSMBW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDJB_k2JEcw
(Also, I can’t even play regular Brawl anymore without thinking “Brawl+ is so much better than this!” XD)
As a “convenience” example, my Wii’s hacked to play DVDs so that I don’t have to go to the minor trouble of switching around all the input cords in order to watch DVDs when I have my Wii hooked up. It also lets me play region-locked DVDs, so it means that imports that won’t play on my DVD player will play on my Wii.
Modding is different than pirating or cheating. Understand that.
i really dont care about cheaters. its their console, so they should be able to do whatever the crap they want to do. its when they mess with the rest of us that really ticks me off. Example? mario kart wii. it used to be fun trying to earn the top spot on the leaderboards, always trying to beat previous times. heck, i was even on the top ten for shy guy beach at one point. now the entire list is filled with times like 0:00.08 or something really annoying and stupid. same goes for sonic 4. it just sucks away the fun of trying to get a really good time. its like trying to save money to buy ice cream, only to find that somebody else has already bought the entire store!
@Skai Cyan
Yes… one is most definitely less wrong than the other.
Peasants! Enjoy the bans!!!
“Peasants! Enjoy the bans!!!”
-_- Thank you for proving your trolldom, Sonical.
http://3.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/70/42/f64f645ad8b66182afd9f168a4efcbde.jpg
This sums things up rather nicely. lol
Nothing like that has happened yet, just another excuse from the scene, I wonder when they plan on hoping the scene moniker and just being transparent that they are all about piracy “if you like the software buy it” yeah right they know exactly what they are doing.
I can’t believe you bring up ignorance and then post a shitty fear mongering mspaint webcomic.
@Unknownlight
Explain to me in detail why it isn’t peasant like? Jumping through a bunch of hoops to do shit on 2004-2005 era hardware seems pretty peasant like to me. Do you really expect random PS3 games to have things like the hacks for Brawl and NSMBWii, bwahaha have fun living that dream pal. The only hacks you can expect are “god mode in deathmatch” “godmode in deathmatch works with patch 2.4″, maybe a editor for LittleBigPlanet oh wait it already has that and much more because Sony is completely open to this unlike the d-bags at Nintendo and Microsoft. Maybe someone will patch Sonic 4 to not be shit, don’t see that happening because not a single fuck has been given about hacking it on the Wii……….expect for leaderboards that is!