Player sues Sony after being banned from PlayStation Network

It's pretty difficult to get banned from the PlayStation Network. You have to be a total jerk-faceto get booted off PS3's online community. However, that's what Erik Estavallo managed to do whilst playing Resistance. With access to the game cut off, Estavallo decided to take part in the most appropriate action possible: a lawsuit.Estavallo argues that a ban from the PlayStation Network goes against his First Amendment rights. "The plaintiff was exercising his First Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech in the game's public forum when he was banned from, not only [Resistance], but also banned from playing all other games online via the PlayStation Network," a court document retrieved by GamePolitics reveals. This, in turn, has caused "pain and suffering" because the PS3 is "the only way the plaintiff can truly socialize since he also suffers from Agoraphobia."Estavallo is asking for $55,000 in punitive damages and demands Sony no longer implement bans of any sort. He alleges that "PlayStation 3 is the only system that incorporates this type of wide-ranged ban. As where Nintendo does not ban customers at all. And Microsoft Xbox rarely bans."

Ha, my mate (well, a chum of a chum anyway) got booted off Xbox live the other day actually, need loadsa negative feedback though.

Be quite funny to see Sony swat away this arse though, think this will be the first and last we hear of it though as the "PSN" could surely be argued as being private therefore not "public"....

And Bosch, what's a "Jerk-placeto"

no idea Disco probably some american made it up thinking it was great and actually posted it in the article lol

my mate got his account ban from PSN for sending random people he would meet in a game porn and abusive messages to start arguments

I hope i dont get banned from xbox live, i get lots of negative feedback for my classy pilot skills on GTA IV, people get proper pissed at me tis hilarious

It sounds like Doomhammer

Kay Fabe wrote:

It sounds like Doomhammer

lol. the guy who thinks you delete his posts?

what a twat the rules for being online say you cant be massively offensive.

If he was sparking off some terror shit or proper brutal insults course he is going to get banned, its in the fucking terms of use.

and if its his only way of socialising, why the fuck is he being an offensive twat to people.

and bosch, your mate sounds like a twat lol.

why are people always fucking pricks online lol

Ya cunt

Bit I don't get is the freedom of speech thing...

I know it's free but you need an account, basically meaning your in "sony" space, therefore they enforce their own rules there.

thats the point in the terms.

like you can't sign up for a football teams official forum and then proceed to make some racist remarks.

thing is though there are millions of the twats worldwide, im sure not all have aggoraphobia, infact thats probably just a word to say he is so much of a twat if he went outside ppl would kick the shit out of him

What stops him from using phones, MSN, webcams, telegram, carrier pigeon or day I say it....Xbox live

Surely the terms of aggrophobia don't ban him from that

whats funny is ppl on psnetwork pretending to be girls.

wen i went on ps home (what a lolfest that is ) thers just weird foreigners and ppl going round saying "me suck cock" etc etc

god thers twats everywer