Now SONY is swinging the "mighty" banhammer. Some users are banned, some are only warned. But who warns SONY?
Their semi-legal tactics against the enduser are a joke. We again remember their rootkits on Audio Media and USB Sticks.

Just for your interest, we quote a guy from SONY:

Thomas Hesse, President of Sony's Global Digital Business, literally says: "Most people, I think, don't even know
what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

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So we could take this for an example and say: "Most people inside SONY don't even know what security is, so why should
they care about it?"

If SONY cares about their customers, why are they treating them like totally douchebags ? Of course the quote does not
reflect the view of the company itself, but HELL, this was not from a Jon Doe inside SONY, it was from a Department's
President !

The PSN is a core feature of the PlayStation3, like OtherOS was. So why do they ban the PSN of users who LEGALLY run
homebrew (not backups!) on their consoles? Just because they do not like it?

It is a fact that reversing a system is legal in most countries all over the world, and if someone who really only wants to run
his own code (no, not backups!), which he legally signed and coded without any SONY libraries or documentation, would
sue SONY, they would may lose.

Reverse engineering is also allowed for analysing purposes. E.g. is a software/hardware implementing/running, rootkits,
spyware, malicious code, security flaws, transferring privacy data and so on.

Imagine if this wouldn't be legal, any antivirus software would brake the law ! The companies of antivurus software are
reverse engineering virus code, that is NOT copyrighted by them !
So why are those companies allowed to RE and even PUBLISH their findings to the public but not people like fail0verflow
etc.?

By studying the PSN since it's launch we know it's vulnerabilities pretty good right now and unbanning consoles might be as easy as banning consoles. It is an infinite circle of "who-is-better".

- The Anonymous Data Protection Officers

New terms are out meaning you are no longer aloud to run unsigned software..etc. They are PSN account banning not console banning so you can just make a new psn if you got banned

well what can you do.

Oh I really do because everyone here reporting their bans say its their psn only they've already made new ones and can play online..

From what I have been reading it could be possible.

Oh. Talking about changing the consoleid?

No its completely different..sadly I can't remember where I read it from. Ill try and find it later.

Oh. Talking about changing the consoleid?

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Not giving source for now :p

With that we may be able to unban. =D