{"id":47349,"date":"2012-11-14T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T08:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=47349"},"modified":"2012-11-14T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T08:59:03","slug":"sony-laying-down-the-banhammer-on-ps3-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/47349-sony-laying-down-the-banhammer-on-ps3-hackers","title":{"rendered":"Sony laying down the banhammer on PS3 hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em><\/strong>Sony has said that it will permanently ban PS3 hackers, and has offered offenders one last way out before it’s too late.<\/p>\n

The PS3 lv0 boot loader key leak and the ability for hacked consoles to play online alongside legitimate users<\/a> has caused concern for Sony, and the company issued a statement saying that the permanent ban is its current agenda to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n

Sony\u2019s announcement also comes as a last warning for users who have hacked PS3 consoles, as the statement recommends a chance to remove the firmware or hacking elements.<\/p>\n

“To avoid permanent termination, consumers must immediately cease using and delete all unauthorized or pirated software from their PlayStation 3 systems.”<\/p>\n

In late October, Sony was also finally cleared of the class action lawsuit<\/a> against the company over the 2011 PlayStation Network hack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: Playstation.com <\/a><\/h5>\n

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Playstation 3 hackers face a permanent ban if they do not comply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":44033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1450,405,7726,15399,7723,7724,7725,71],"class_list":["post-47349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-banhammer","tag-hacking","tag-permanent-ban","tag-ps3","tag-ps3-hack","tag-ps3-hackers","tag-ps3-online-ban","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47350,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47349\/revisions\/47350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}