Our site has been a little shy on covering the PlayStation 3 hacking dilemma of the past month. Now, Sony has released their official statement.

 Notice: Unauthorized circumvention devices for the PlayStation 3 system have been recently released by hackers. These devices permit the use of unauthorized or pirated software. Use of such devices or software violates the terms of the “System Software License Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System” and the “Terms of Services and User Agreement” for the PlayStation Network/Qriocity and its Community Code of Conduct provisions. Violation of the System Software Licence Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System invalidates the consumer guarantee for that system. In addition, copying or playing pirated software is a violation of International Copyright Laws. Consumers using circumvention devices or running unauthorized or pirated software will have access to the PlayStation Network and access to Qriocity services through PlayStation 3 system terminated permanently.

To avoid this, consumers must immediately cease use and remove all circumvention devices and delete all unauthorized or pirated software from their PlayStation 3 systems. 

To be  honest, I couldn’t agree more. Sure Sony taking the guy who made it and released on YouTube to court might be a tad silly. After all, once something is out there on the web, it’s really hard to single handily target one person and solve the situation. The information is out there and I don’t think prosecuting one person will really detour others. Instead, I would use that money (after all, those corporate lawyers are not cheap) for better purposes. But to ban somebody for life from PSN? Extremely fair. I don’t personally agree with the idea of jailbreaking your PS3 or any other device, just to get free content but as stated, I don’t believe lawyers will solve anything either so I think this is a good step for Sony.