Sony's latest [failed] anti-piracy tactic

[Nanaki]

dsister said:

Dasau said:

Wrong.  Banned people gamertags still allow them to play offline on their harddrive.

They ban them from Xbox Live... and if you are caught pirating they block you from your hard drive(Haven't heard of them doing this since MW2 came out but whatever).

So what exactly is your point?

 

You are wrong here. If you are banned for piracy, your console cannot go to Live. But your GT is OK, if you use different machine, you can use same GT as normal. HDD is not blocked, you just cannot transfer GT and saves to another console. In 8955, banned consoles cannot use "install" function, but apart of this, HDD was normal. So you must play from disc in that time. But in 9199 (spring update), install function was back even for banned consoles.