Sony Brings In The BAN HAMMER!

[gingeee85]

From Official Playstation Blog:

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.


A E-mail Users Are Recieving:

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.
(e-mail taken from member at psx-scene)


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[DKShadow]

I'm very, VERY happy to see this happen. Go get'em, Sony!

[imahobo]

I am also very happy to hear about this.

I have moved this to GPN so its on the front page, +Rep for posting it ;)

[MT-92]

ive just been on Mw2 and this guy was hacking then he made everyone on my team float in the middle of the map and made his name start flashing red in the middle of the screen so i left and when i was on my home screen and it tells you everyones stats like 'such a person has so many kills' it said platinum-gstar in the house in multy colours... he hasent hacked my ps3 has he? ha i dont no much about stuff like this :\

[Simmy_82]

I dont think he will have MT-92 probs just hacked his own to make it appear like that on everyones screen.

Its about time they cracked down on these guys properly!!

[DjDhiraj1]

Good riddance, was waiting when this would happen. People hacking left, right and centre on anything and everything...going from 10 plats to 50 in matter of a day.
I am still not sure how sony would find this out tho, as Geohot hack made jailbreak look legit, if Sony was trying to look at it. Be interesting to see it...i know a couple of JB users and would keep an eye on them whether they get banned or not.

[gingeee85]

sony logs everything you do when you switch on your ps3, to what has run, downloaded and stuff, so when people are launching there back up managers it logs on sony servers = mr ban hammer coming to get you, i know a couple of people who have a jail broken console (doesnt interest me) and they both have been banned

[Radiosity]

Good riddance to them. Unfortunately it doesn't mean we'll be seeing a drop in the number of annoying system updates we're forced to download because of the idiotic activities of the few though. An hour to download an update (on a 20Mbps connection, nice servers there Sony) that doesn't bring anything new and doesn't affect me personally every month or two, what fun.

[johnmcc46]

its great to see Sony finally addressing this, thats what people deserve for hacking their consoles.

[Navvy7]

To echo everybody elses sentiments, hooray, finally a decent course of action to protect the system we hold dear. And to the banned hackers, f*ck em maybe they'll have to venture outside now and get a real life.

[jay6199]

good to see there actually doing what they said they could do 2 years ago, although i don't like the whole ifthere is a mistake bit at the end, seems like they will back down if you hassle them to me but we will see.

[Leec1991]

About time, all you need to do is look at any call of duty leaderboard and its packed with cheats.

[bonobo4]

Absolutely brilliant! Maybe I'll be able to enjoy games online now!