The PlayStation Network service moves from Sony Computer Entertainment to the new Sony Network Entertainment America on April 1st. SNEA also oversees Sony's Bravia brand, as well as the Sony Dash hardware and their Blu-ray players.
What does this mean for you, gamer? There's going to be a new terms agreement for service come April 1st that you'll have to agree to. Qriocity has these terms listed now, says Gamasutra. When you accept, your PSN wallets will be transfered over. Those users who choose to decline the new terms and conditions will have their PSN accounts closed and their wallets refunded.
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11:00 AM on 03.25.2011 | 
IS THIS A THING?!
Also, where's Journey?
Seriously add the condition "your soul" to essentially any TOS or EULA at and they would make the devil blush.
Last time April 1st other os was taken by a fake sounding firmware 3.21
I wish they'd just choose April second so people never questioned the validity of official sony biz.
*granted I know people received emails of both said updates and Sony did post on their blog aswell, still just wish they didn't use April 1st of all days.
Someone help me out here.
I would assume this is REAL but really, who the hell cares. I will hit accept and live on with my life.
I also kind of agree with J03yyz as I recieved the email as well and it looks really poor to come from Sony.
a) Sony can brick completely your console with no reason what-so-ever,
and
b) while users have ridiculously long list of dos & don'ts(mostly don'ts), it is clearly stated in the last paragraph that all gamers can suck Sonys dick since they clearly can't do anything(,
it's wrong on so many levels. it just boggles my mind that Sony actually was able to make both warranty and any liability completely irrelevant.
To my knowledge, refund is for wallet funds only. Games are non-refundable.
They have worked in terms which claim to grant them the right to temporarily or permenantly disable your hardware and remove all of your paid content.
That's not just unethical boys and girls, that's illegal.
you better read those terms since from April 1st you won't own your ps3 anymore and if sony will fuck up your ps3(firmware updates 1000s other problems caused by Sony) you won't be able to do anything. you can't even do anything agains hackers aside from reporting them(so basically gamers can't demand additional patches to fix online).
if gamers again won't stand up against sony this time(like in the past few weeks when they constantly were breaking consumer rights) it will be pretty much over. those terms even state that you can't do shit when you still have warranty! WTF?!
Hell if it keeps the hackers and stupid people off of PSN I'm all for it LOL
From what I hear it's easy for hacked PS3's to get free downloads from the PSN store under it's current setup.
3.6 has been hacked already but it's not to the extent earlier versions were. They may even drop a new FW before you accept the terms to make sure your PS3 is legit.
nope those terms clearly state that Sony can disable BOTH software(psn) and HARDWARE(ps3) whenever they want. not to mention you either agree to those terms or your account is deleted.
After actually bothering to read that I confirmed on top of being a troll you are apparently illiterate as well, no where in there does it say any of that.
There just re inforcing the basic rules, don't act like a jackass online or hack anything and its all good.
Even the they just terminate you from the psn. There isn't a killswitch that destroys your hardware.
"permanent or temporary disablement of any system or device through which you receive Sony Online Services"
That not only covers hardware, it covers non-PS3 hardware.
Those BASTARDS! What do they think they're doing by not affecting me in any way?!
This really isn't any different from any other ToS agreement in the long run. Hackers gonna hack, and normal players gonna play.
The world keeps on spinning.
Also, ONLINE
I don't know whether this is a good thing or not. I often hear Sony's various departments do not work together as well as they should. That's why you end up with fucking stupid ideas like the Playstation Phone.
I want PSN to service my PS3 and PSP, and to be as dedicated for those platforms as it can be. I don't want my PS3 and PSP getting a worse or more expensive service as SNEA makes changes to the business, because they want to roll PSN out on Bravias and telephones...