Hey guys, have any of you ever been banned? If so, for how long?? I just tried to play online, and cant sign into my account, and has been deleted altogether!! Then i get an email from sony saying my account was removed due to terms of use violation!! I lost ALL MY TROPHIES!!!! WTF!!!! Is there any way to get them back??? Will i have to create another account?? Help!! :(


 

Did you deserve it? :)

They're supposed to be for 5 of your PS3s, it's not really wanted by Sony for 1 guy to buy the game and 4 others to play them for free, not really ethical is it? How did you even get caught out? :\

" @Baillie: i dont know lol. I was just chatting on Gametrailers about it, and they said gamesharing is against the terms of usage, but i thought you could share with up to 5 people?? "

" They're supposed to be for 5 of your PS3s, it's not really wanted by Sony for 1 guy to buy the game and 4 others to play them for free, not really ethical is it? How did you even get caught out?   

Lots of people have gameshared, I'd be surprised if Sony started cracking down.  It's not something I'd want to do for a lot of reasons.
 
Never been banned from any of these services, including PSN.

" @navyguy21 said:

" @Baillie: i dont know lol. I was just chatting on Gametrailers about it, and they said gamesharing is against the terms of usage, but i thought you could share with up to 5 people?? "

Clearly you can't... at least not legally.... 
 
@Baillie said:

" They're supposed to be for 5 of your PS3s, it's not really wanted by Sony for 1 guy to buy the game and 4 others to play them for free, not really ethical is it? How did you even get caught out?   

Negative. You can download a game to the same PS3 as many times as you want. Only 5 different consoles can download it. "

@Baillie said:

" They're supposed to be for 5 of your PS3s, it's not really wanted by Sony for 1 guy to buy the game and 4 others to play them for free, not really ethical is it? How did you even get caught out?   

Negative. You can download a game to the same PS3 as many times as you want. Only 5 different consoles can download it. "

oops nevermind, I got my PSN question threads confused.  I've never shared beta codes, and that might be a risky thing.

"   Hey guys, have any of you ever been banned? If so, for how long?? I just tried to play online, and cant sign into my account, and has been deleted altogether!! Then i get an email from sony saying my account was removed due to terms of use violation!! I lost ALL MY TROPHIES!!!! WTF!!!! Is there any way to get them back??? Will i have to create another account?? Help!! :(   "

My new user id is Navyguy211, please add me, i need friends lol

" @navyguy21 said:

"   Hey guys, have any of you ever been banned? If so, for how long?? I just tried to play online, and cant sign into my account, and has been deleted altogether!! Then i get an email from sony saying my account was removed due to terms of use violation!! I lost ALL MY TROPHIES!!!! WTF!!!! Is there any way to get them back??? Will i have to create another account?? Help!! :(   "

  

  ... Don't ask why, just feels like this video fits well. "

" @navyguy21 said:

" @Baillie: i dont know lol. I was just chatting on Gametrailers about it, and they said gamesharing is against the terms of usage, but i thought you could share with up to 5 people?? "

Clearly you can't... at least not legally.... 
 
@Baillie said:

" They're supposed to be for 5 of your PS3s, it's not really wanted by Sony for 1 guy to buy the game and 4 others to play them for free, not really ethical is it? How did you even get caught out?   

Negative. You can download a game to the same PS3 as many times as you want. Only 5 different consoles can download it. "

Actually i do believe your wrong, the 5 download limit is your download limit if you give it out 5 times after the initial you can no longer download it unless you call sony. "

" @SJSchmidt93 said:

" @navyguy21 said:

" @Baillie: i dont know lol. I was just chatting on Gametrailers about it, and they said gamesharing is against the terms of usage, but i thought you could share with up to 5 people?? "

Clearly you can't... at least not legally.... 
 
@Baillie said:

" They're supposed to be for 5 of your PS3s, it's not really wanted by Sony for 1 guy to buy the game and 4 others to play them for free, not really ethical is it? How did you even get caught out?   

Negative. You can download a game to the same PS3 as many times as you want. Only 5 different consoles can download it. "

Actually i do believe your wrong, the 5 download limit is your download limit if you give it out 5 times after the initial you can no longer download it unless you call sony. "

" @WilliamRLBaker said:

Actually i do believe your wrong, the 5 download limit is your download limit if you give it out 5 times after the initial you can no longer download it unless you call sony. "

I'm 95% certain the download limit is unlimited per PS3.  I can try it right now with a PSN game I bought and hated, if you like.  I'd kind of like to make sure myself. "

We'll i've shared a few games over up to the 5 time limit and it wont let me redownload it onto the original ps3 i have it on. "

" @WilliamRLBaker said:

We'll i've shared a few games over up to the 5 time limit and it wont let me redownload it onto the original ps3 i have it on. "

Hmmm interesting.  Is it possible you let 5 or more separate people download the game while you had it uninstalled?  I didn't think uninstalling a game deactivated it though... "

" @navyguy21 said:

"   Hey guys, have any of you ever been banned? If so, for how long?? I just tried to play online, and cant sign into my account, and has been deleted altogether!! Then i get an email from sony saying my account was removed due to terms of use violation!! I lost ALL MY TROPHIES!!!! WTF!!!! Is there any way to get them back??? Will i have to create another account?? Help!! :(   "

  

  ... Don't ask why, just feels like this video fits well. "

I love how people are saying game sharing is wrong. My PSN account is activated on 5 consoles (mine, my uncles, my parents, and 2 of my friends), Sony lets me do it, who cares? Phil Harrison used to tout the feature in the early PS3 days and he's the reason I even know about it.

That sucks, I'd give an angry call to Sony

OK just now I verified the activation system.  I downloaded a PSN game I had bought before 6 additional times on the same PS3, downloading, installing, uninstalling.  I had downloaded that PSN game at least twice on a previous PS3 that had broke and I sent in to Sony as well.  Each time when I went to download I saw the word activating appear for a split second before actually downloading.

" OK just now I verified the activation system.  I downloaded a PSN game I had bought before 6 additional times on the same PS3, downloading, installing, uninstalling.  I had downloaded that PSN game at least twice on a previous PS3 that had broke and I sent in to Sony as well.  Each time when I went to download I saw the word activating appear for a split second before actually downloading. "

According to the Sony FAQ, it's a five-system limit for certain types of content.

but has the game ever been deleted or have you changed the hard drive? maybe test by deleting, downloading, deleting downloading...etc "

" According to the Sony FAQ, it's a five-system limit for certain types of content. "

Isn't the intent of the five system limit to allow people to have their PSN account linked to five systems that they personally own? This seems like a bunch of people trying to convince themselves that piracy is OK as long as they don't "share" games with more than four other people.

The purpose was obviously not to simply share with friends, and even if it was that wouldn't be fair to developers. Just because it is technically possibly doesn't make it right. I'm not saying you need to own the console, though. It seems reasonable that, like taking a disc over to a friend's house, you should be able to retrieve your account and game there temporarily.

Dylan Cuthbert made a couple recent tweets that reflects my thoughts pretty well:
it's nice to see PixelJunk games recommended so much on neogaf threads for people who have just got their slim PS3s!
except the guy who was being recommended the games went and "gameshare"d Monsters, what a git!

dang that sucks, i kind of want to know why u got banned. i have never got banned from anything.

MB: That is what I would call "Hitting the nail on the head".
If you share you're game with another person you run the risk of getting suspended ore banned. C'est la vie duder's.