Sony Says Agree to New PSN Terms or Face Being Banned
September 16th, 2011
We all know that the Sony PlayStation Network was hacked into a while back and hoards of user data was stolen. That theft turned into a class-action suit and Sony wants to be sure that doesn’t happen again. Sony has apparently put a new Terms of Service update on when people log onto their PS3 or the PSN.
The new Terms of Service force two things significant new things on you. First, Sony wants you to agree that you will not be involved in a class-action suit against them. The lawsuit line is one at a time only in PSN-land. Sony also wants you to agree that it gets to pick the arbitrator of the suit if you were to sue them individually.
The wild part is that if you don’t agree to the terms you face being banned from entering PSN. Apparently, you can opt out of agreeing to the new TOS by snail-mailing Sony a letter stating as much. That little tidbit is reportedly hidden in the fine print though and most won’t see it. I wonder what they will do if a kid too young to make a binding decision agrees to the TOS. Do any of you actually read the full TOS before you accept terms?
[via BBC]
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I guess I’m going to be trading in my PS3 for an Xbox 360! I’m done with Sony for good! This has gone too far! I will never buy another Sony product again!
@crazy – you might as well trade it in or sell it for whatever you can get for it. Sony stock is down 50% since this hacking mess began. That speaks volumes. When a company has investors who start displaying a significant lack of trust as evidenced by the diminished trading in their stock, it’s time to look for another source for gaming.
Sony is riding out on a dead horse of a failed system and as reported is not interested truly in securing your information, but rather in protecting themselves when they fail. Clearly with the changes to the EULA to protect them from class action lawsuits indicates their expectation that they will fail and will not be able to secure information. It’s crystal.
And in that, it is also crystal that no investment should be made in Sony and no financial information should be given to them.
Sony is a fools game. As the news today reported, Sony’s stocks have fallen 50% and that means the smart money has left and all that remains are the fools.