Sony Threatens to Terminate Service of PS3 Jailbreakers
Found on Wired on Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Sony said Wednesday it would permanently block PlayStation 3 owners from the PlayStation Network if they are using jailbroken consoles.
The demands came six weeks after the first full-fledged PS3 hack was released. The hack was designed to allow PlayStation 3 owners the ability to play home-brewed games, but can be tweaked to allow the console to play pirated games.
Jailbreaking your cellphone is legal, so how should this be different? That aside, being banned from the PSN isn't much of a threat, considering that you're free to play other games. Sony can lock you out, but they cannot stop you from using your PlayStation. It's like excommunication: it scares the diligent churchgoer, but makes the rest of the world laugh.