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There won't be anything to stop you uploading porn to your private space in PlayStation Home, according to Sony, but you obviously won't be able to wave it around in public. It was Phil Harrison wot said it, speaking to semi-official blog ThreeSpeech following this month's GDC announcements - including that of the virtual "Home" universe - in an interview that quickly drew him into a discussion about, well, "moderation". "It's absolutely deliberate that there is no physical impact between characters, between avatars," he explained, adding that you will be able to do things like shake hands. "But no, we're not going to have 'those' kind of animations that I'm imagining that you're thinking about." Not content with that, the ThreeSpeech blogger made his point more explicitly, asking whether it'd be possible to upload pornography to your private space, and whether Sony would do anything about the people who "invite people you don't necessarily know" to come and watch it with you. Amazing. "Well I'm disappointed that you would use those as the first questions," Harrison responded. "I think Home should be used for a much wider and more beneficial scope than that, but I think that people can express their creativity inside Home in a wide variety of ways and it's not necessarily for us to dictate what that should be. However, if somebody feels uncomfortable about an encounter on Home, it's very easy for them to ban that person from their friends list." So now you know.
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I fail to see why the new sherriff would do anything to stop porn anyway. Perverts are just another source of $$$.



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They're really walking into a minefield with this one...



stewacide said: They're really walking into a minefield with this one...
Yeah, just remember all the bull from porn on the PSP? Now it will be "Playstation a virtual haven for perverts and pedophiles"



Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?

ssj12 said: Player specific decoders are nothing more than specialized GPUs. Gran Turismo is the trust driving simulator of them all. 

"Why do they call it the xbox 360? Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away" 

Now it will be "Playstation a virtual haven for perverts and pedophiles"
i guess thats the kind of audience they are trying to reach, bacholors siting in their moms basement who are very lonely.



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The Wii gots its "porn scare" a bit ago, the DS got its "stalker scare." Apparently it's the new thing to do to accuse videogame consoles of...



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BenKenobi88 said: The Wii gots its "porn scare" a bit ago, the DS got its "stalker scare." Apparently it's the new thing to do to accuse videogame consoles of...
yea, everyone always wants everything to be corrupt, and due to the currupt society we live in, everything ussually can and is twisted to be used for pedaphile reasons.



A delayed game is good someday, a bad game is bad forever.

I don't see what the big deal is. Every home with a wii or ps3 connected to the internet already has broadband internet service with atleast one computer. They already have access to a much better way of getting porn that with either system. Who the F cares? If little Johnny is in his room watching a donkey show on his ps3/wii, he probably has already done it on the family computer and would either way. Parents need to be parents and spend time with their kids. Let them know what is good fun and bad fun. For crying out loud I am so sick of these idiot media people who will do anything for ratings and try to ruin a good thing. PS3's home service sounds pretty nice, I really like the idea that they are not putting any restrictions in the content. I wish Nintendo would follow suit and dump the damn friend code per game system. It should be like the pc world where you can just join a server based game with anyone and they see your name. That is by far a more entertaining experience.



I think it's stupid and juvenile, but I agree they will get in trouble for it. We have too much of a nanny society in this country. Jack Thompson will be all over this.



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