Sony's latest [failed] anti-piracy tactic

[NotStan]

dsister said:

Nanaki said:

 

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.

I never said your gamertag was banned when you pirated. I thought you were just locked out of your hard drive.

I think it disables the console's ability to go online, thus if you get hit with the banhammer your console is bricked and will never be able to go online. So it's pretty much a mine for an unsuspecting consumer that might purchase it without knowing that online is permanently disabled on the console. I think people are able to play the games offline and pirated ones in particular, it's just live that's disabled.