one the article is from 2011 so who knows if they have baned anyone since

two sony can brick any of there devices

http://www.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/terms-of-service/

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It's completely unethical. Where does it say in the NDA: 'we have the right to render your purchase useless.' Punish them by all means but this is dropping a bomb on a knife fight.

"SNEI may also take steps on behalf of its device platform partners to disable permanently or temporarily any device on which you receive PSN First Party Services and through use of which you violate the Community Code of Conduct. "

doesnt that just mean they block your Services for that device? not that they kill your consol, but that it doesnt work for PSN first Party services.

anyway... these people broke their NDA's.. don't go testing games and then break NDA's.. they signed them so they knew this could happen

^ this is how I feel about this.

Im also worried hackers can duplicate it.

That's from one of the commentors, so it's hardly a good source for this; people spout all sorts of bull-crap and misinformation in the comments.

Proper confirmation from a reliable article/source would be nice.

yeah I can see why you guys reside in your own thread, this sort of info feels like it's on purpose and we've already got two users screeching "This is gonna be megaton huuuuuuuuuuge, so huggggge" as if they were ever invested in MS to begin with and just feels like a reason to call doom or MS pure evil.

It's like this site can never ever have good MS news without someone trying to bring it down to the depths of hell.

The point isn't even that big of a deal since in the end like stated it was the leakers fault and they were dealt with and should be either way.

Who knows what it means.. Sony is all mighty..  there is a Sony van driving up to my house... I think they are gonna break my legs...

ok how about from sonys ToS

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Yes its all just doom-mongering.....

Why cant we all just be happy about this "good" news.

I dont really see it as being good news that MS choose to brick someones consols...

I didnt even know that was possible, and I dont consider the fact that is, good news.

Maybe they are at fault, and that kinda makes it okay..... still doesnt make it good news.