SCEA updates PSN Terms of Agreement yet again

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has just implemented another update to the PlayStation Network‘s Terms of Service and User Agreement. The first additions arrived back in October and saw the implementation of the service’s version 2.0.

Those changes mostly concern uploading files into the network. This time, the additions merely reinforced the first batch and included the PlayStation Portable in the whole deal.

We believe that this is SCEA’s way of protecting the handheld from “third-party software” or files (homebrew?) that will be uploaded in the PSN as the connection between the PS3 and PSP continues to widen.

One such change reads: “You may not introduce content that could be harmful to SCEA, its licensor, or players such as any code or virus that may damage any property or interfere with the use of the property or PSN”. The striking thing about that statement is that the word “could” was the only one highlighted.

If one is to analyze the repercussions of that word, that means that discretion belongs to SCEA alone in deciding if a certain hosted file is harmful or not. To check the whole changes so that you know if you’re doing something illegal or whatever, click the Read link below.

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has just implemented another update to the PlayStation Network‘s Terms of Service and User Agreement. The first additions arrived back in October and saw the implementation of the service’s version 2.0.

Those changes mostly concern uploading files into the network. This time, the additions merely reinforced the first batch and included the PlayStation Portable in the whole deal.

We believe that this is SCEA’s way of protecting the handheld from “third-party software” or files (homebrew?) that will be uploaded in the PSN as the connection between the PS3 and PSP continues to widen.

One such change reads: “You may not introduce content that could be harmful to SCEA, its licensor, or players such as any code or virus that may damage any property or interfere with the use of the property or PSN”. The striking thing about that statement is that the word “could” was the only one highlighted.

If one is to analyze the repercussions of that word, that means that discretion belongs to SCEA alone in deciding if a certain hosted file is harmful or not. To check the whole changes so that you know if you’re doing something illegal or whatever, click the Read link below.