Sony’s ToS Warning Hits Home
An important announcement from Home Manager, CydoniaX, has been issued against users of Home regarding the social platform’s terms of service. Many participants have been requesting personal information from their fellow Home users in exchange for rare items. And while it seems harmless enough at face value, CydoniaX has strong words for those participate in this behavior.
“Dear PlayStation Home Community Members:
As many of you are already aware, there are members of our community who are requesting your PSN identification and password to grant select items in Home.
We would like to remind you that the Home staff will never ask you for your password, or any other personal information in Home. The members of the community doing so are participating in activities that violate our terms of service. This is wrong, illegal, and most definitely NOT OK, and we will be handling these offenses accordingly.
Please be assured that we know who has done what. We know that many of you who participated in this are also some of our most dedicated and enthusiastic Home users and might not have been fully aware of the ramifications of your actions. That said, appropriate actions will be taken against individuals violating our terms of use.”
CydoniaX was also quick to emphasize the reason this behavior is being cracked down upon and closely scrutinized, and it doesn’t have to do with content sharing so much as exploitation of personal information and PSN accounts.
“…giving out your account information is never a good idea. This is a consistent reminder about best practices for protecting the security of your PSN account.
I am referring to specific actions taken by specific individuals recently that involve granting items to people by using their account info. I am not talking about gamesharing.”
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14 Responses to “Sony’s ToS Warning Hits Home”
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July 16th, 2009 at 10:44 AM
But why the star trek picture?
July 16th, 2009 at 10:46 AM
why not the star trek picture?
July 16th, 2009 at 11:37 AM
why the star trek picture?
July 16th, 2009 at 11:38 AM
shenanigans will not be tolerated in Home, seems fair to me.
game on
July 16th, 2009 at 12:02 PM
They need to make strict examples of this issue. At least 12 month bans if they are not going to completely ban these practices. Unless you get some word of mouth buzz in Home then all the threats of dealing with the issue will fall on deaf ears. And most of the users that do this have an attitude of I am not of legal age to engage in a legal contract so you can’t do anything… If that happens then Sony will have lost all control and should shut down the public/open aspect and just have apartments/spaces. The Central Plaza is not needed to make for a great experience in Home that is better than NXE/XBL!!!
I bet that the Star Trek outfits were at the center of the issue since there was a lot of flaming going on in the forums that because Star Trek was a US phenomena it should have been included in the US region instead of the EU only… But no matter how many times you tell a 13 year old that it is a legal matter for the management with licensing and other aspects they refuse to abide by those decisions…
July 16th, 2009 at 12:06 PM
But why not the Star Trek picture?
July 16th, 2009 at 12:21 PM
why the star trek picture?
July 16th, 2009 at 1:03 PM
star trek?
July 16th, 2009 at 1:35 PM
But why not the Star Trek picture?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:15 PM
lifetime bans from Home atleast, I dont care if they make anew account, atleast they get the point that stealing accounts is wrong. I had an 11 year old friend on PSN that would ask for my info allmost everytime I got a new game, Id just tell to get a job. I guess one day somebody he’d was annoying got pissed and reported him for harrassment and being underage for having a PSN account. So guess he’s banned until he’s 14 from PSN. Maybe the kids parents should fead through terms agreement when signing up for PSN. But that was the least of there problems, that little perv had more nude pics on his PSN than a sex offender. I dont remember what I was doing at 11 but I wasnt looking at junk like that and my parents didnt let me run free on any device hooked up to the adult/child molester friendly internet. I now online gaming is important a big reason 4 PS3 sales, but all Im says is ur goinbg buy these thing 4 ur kid them better than ur kids so that u can montior what they are doing. Like they can play systm offline but have restricted online play. I dont know something cause 4 being an 11 year old he had my perverted 15 or sixteen year old train of thought.
July 16th, 2009 at 7:23 PM
What is this Star Trek?
July 16th, 2009 at 7:39 PM
But why the YLOD? Oh, yeah. I still have it. Not enjoying anything PS3 related, other than this site, right now. Sucks to be me, I guess.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I’ve been asked a number of times for my PSN info or to upload my save files to a website. Usually when I wear my gold japan beta shirt. It’s getting old. I just tell them to go F themselves.
July 17th, 2009 at 11:40 AM
i couldn’t begin to describe the amount of messages I get asking about game sharing. From my various site participation, to many people assume I would be stupid enough to share my account with them just because they belong to that site too.
sorry … I dont think handing out my cc info is a good idea, doesnt matter how bad you want that new game.