Firmware 3.56 Ban Hammer Hits CoD: Black Ops Hackers Hard

Garrett from RipTen: By now everyone should know about the PS3 firmware update 3.56, some more than others. Explained by Sony as a “security update” its effects are being felt by accused modders/hackers. CoD: BlOps hackers are getting hit hardest with a permanent console ban – many of whom have expressed their “innocence” on the Official Ps3 Cod: Black Ops Forums.

[bilbob12345ca]

HAHA take that hackers!

[Dante112]

From ScaryScar6

"I dont know what happened i was just playin it normally. i installed the patch and played for a while and I went to have my shower and when i came back i was permanently banned! Somone please get me unbanned! It might of been my frineds though because i lent him my ps3 a couple of days ago because his ps3 got YLOD…"

lol jeez....

[ReBurn]

lol...this guy needs more honest friends.

A funny one from the forums:

IssY_I : "When i want to play black ops it says my console is banned permanently???
i have payed 150$ for the Ps3 (i bought it yesterday (used) and just came home with a new copy of b-ops! but why is my system banned?"

Infinite-Arch: "Maybe because you hacked........"

bwahahahahaha!

[Michael-Jackson]

excuses... he deserved it.

[Mister_G]

"These drugs aren't mine, I'm just holding them for a friend".

LMFAO!!! Serves them bloody right!!

I see a judge has granted Sony a temporary restraining order on GeoHotz too, things are looking up :D

[GrieverSoul]

Oh yeah!!! Ban hammer for the world!!!

I honestly thought SONY wasnt gonna do it, that it didnt have a way to do it. Im glad I was wrong! Get those A-holes out of my online multiplayer.

[I_find_it_funny]

GOOD.

this news is music to my ears

"enjoy your offline game play."

[Pixelated_Army]

lol good!

[MWong]

"I dont know what happened i was just playin it normally. i installed the patch and played for a while and I went to have my shower and when i came back i was permanently banned! Somone please get me unbanned! It might of been my frineds though because i lent him my ps3 a couple of days ago because his ps3 got YLOD…"

This has got to be the funniest one out of them all. It wasn't me my friend did it.

[Acquiescence]

They can't even accept their perma-bans with grace, they have to try and weasel out of it by dreaming up some appalling excuse that no one with one iota of sense would ever believe.

Anyway, Sony has scored a double whammy today. This for one, and just wait 'til you read what's happened to GeoHotz. Sony won the restraining order

...

he has to give up all his hacking equipment within the next ten days!

XD

[captain-obvious]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

hacking and easy game as black ops is soooo stupid
i mean it just like hacking cooking mama or something
shows you how pathetic some ppl are

[I_find_it_funny]

They went hard, new complaints are popping up all the time

[DORMIN]

PWNED.

Thats why you don't buy consoles used...

[HolyOrangeCows]

"enjoy your offline game play"
Average COD Gamer: "What's that?"

Keep in mind, my fellow gamers. It happens.
Honest gamers will oft get stuck in the cross fire of these raids. Don't be so callous.

[Dee_91]

LMAO !!
please come do this for mw2
i already have a list of modders who tried to derank me because i was whoopin them

[Mahr]

The best comment is the one asking how long it takes for a perma-ban to expire.

It's like the gaming equivalent of the Darwin Awards.

[ProGrasTiNation]

Well your friend needs to buy you a new Ps3 then.lol
Your responsible for your property

[StbI990]

@HolyOrangeCows...And I believe sony is the one to blame? that only gotta show people hacker are nothing but a bunch of fag ruining everything for everyone and not sony's fault.

Next...Gamers again'st hacker, I myself don't see piracy in the next generation, and if that ever reach to happen, expect downloadable only games, screwing who again?...the bunch of us gamers ^.^

[jeseth]

I love how pathetic people sound trying to make up BS excuses and stories.

hahahahah . . .

It's hilarious and sad. With today's technology a lot of excuses don't work anymore, and every excuse here is downright laughable.

hahahah . . .

Good for Sony on this one. Cheaters cheat and this is what they deserve. Its nice to see MS and Sony stepping up to keep their most popular online communities in good shape.

-Still laughing at pathetic cheaters and liars.

[zag]

The real funny thing is.

This Wankerkoko.

Has released CFW using the 3.56 code base and anyone who updates to this firmware will be equally screwed when the firmware probably bans them from the game servers for good.

GT5 hooks into servers while it starts up the game, yet how many people using back ups of GT5 and wouldn't know this or don't understand what is happening to them behind the scenes.

[TheDeadMetalhead]

Heh. Reminds me of all the people complaining on the Bungie forums when they got banned for cheating on Halo Reach. It's so fun to watch them try to lie.

[BrianC6234]

ReBurn - Maybe that guy was telling the truth. He says he just bought his PS3 used for $150. A good idea now would be make sure you arent buying a banned PS3 if you buy one used. The last owner might have installed something on it that the update saw and it was banned. If this is what happened it's his problem. He should demand his money back.

[zgoldenlionz]

LOL this is the best news i heard all day! cheaters deserve what they get. im sure a few people have been unjustly banned and im sure that will get ironed out, too bad theres all these wankers trying to play the victim card. its just pathetic.

[jaredhart]

My fav:

__EtMazizi__:

I was playin Black Ops and seached for a game of search and destroy, i just prestiged 4 da 4th time and entered a modded lobby. Ileft straight away when i relised wat it waz next thing i no i banned and reset.Has this r something similair happened to u???

[Max Power]

This one is mine...
_____________________________ ____________________________
CaStR0_21 - How long am I banned for?

"This console has been permanently banned from the Black Ops servers....."

Does this mean forever? Or will I be unbanned after awhile?
_____________________________ ____________________________

[Close_Second]

I agree with the banning but what if the console is on sold to an unsuspecting buyer?

Will people who have hacked their PS3 own up when they offer it up fo sale? I would hate to buy one to find it can't play on-line!

[I_find_it_funny]

______________________________ _____________
Really, treyarch is weird, theyre the ones that got owned, they cant accept their game is a fail and got hacked and started banning people legit accounts......
_____________________________ ______________

nobocy cares about your accounts.. you're getting your CONSOLE banned son, move on

[Baka-akaB]

@Close_Second

Just like with everything used , you check the console offline and online .

And even if it still connected to psn , i doubt , as seen with the psp custom firwmares , that the name and version wouldnt show in the sys info of the ps3 .

[jeeves86]

@ Close Second

A good buyer will always insist on a contract for anything over a few hundred bucks. If the seller won't agree to a) let the buyer check the console b) agree to the terms of a contract (i.e.: the console hasn't been banned, etc), then it isn't worth buying.

If the seller lied about the condition, they're legally obliged to refund the money, as it's what's been agreed to in the contract.

[Snakefist30]

lmao my favorite..

scaryscar6:

I dont know what happened i was just playin it normally. i installed the patch and played for a while and I went to have my shower and when i came back i was permanently banned! Somone please get me unbanned! It might of been my frineds though because i lent him my ps3 a couple of days ago because his ps3 got YLOD…

…first he plays the innocence card….then he blames it on his “friend”….

CLASSIC!

[siyrobbo]

lets hope the hackers are gone for good and there are no workarounds

[theonlylolking]

Even if some are not hackers treyarch still did them a favor and not have them play black ops.

[Blaze929]

This has nothing to do with the firmware, this is just Treyarch doing what they should have been doing since release: banning cheaters/"exploiters" ; from the Black Ops server. They been doing it on the 360.

But nothing to do with Sony/PSN bans or FW 3.56

[davekaos]

Blaze dunno why you got disagreed because you are right!

its nothing to do with CFW treyarch have banned all those people doing the 10th prestige hack which BTW can be done without CFW.

If you read through my comments you will know im pro sony so i am not trolling in anyway shape or form, I am just stating FACT and not random BS that these journalists put up.

Probably best they did some reseach next time

[duplissi]

oh come on we dont read articles or do any proper research here on n4g!

come to n4g and only comment on the title!

[SCThor]

Exactly, this has more to do with people using the DNS trick for playing without update the PS3.

Nothing to do with OFW 3.56.

[UnwanteDreamz]

Agreed but sounds like the article failed which is nothing new to N4G.

[PimpHandHappy]

hahaha

thats awesome
i hate cheats and i love when they get butt hurt

[jaredhart]

Banhammer time!

[davekaos]

Just so people know!

The ps3's are not banned they are just blacklisted from blackops ONLY. They can still play other games.

Also this has nothing to do with CFW people have been using, If these so called journalists did some research they would realise the only people getting banned are the ones who did the 10th prestige hack which can also be done without CFW installed!

EDIT

Disagree's for being right! maybe if i post something wrong i will get some agree's??

[JD_Shadow]

No, you're right. Completely right.

However, it seems we PS3 gamers HAVE to be at war with Geohotz because God forbid someone ever found a way to jailbreak the unbreakable PS3. Like I said before, the whole cat-n-mouse game that Sony is doing about that has something more to it than just thwarting cheaters and pirates. It seems they don't want you playing any games on their systems that they won't make any money off of, either! Why do you think they are so against even legit, legal homebrew games?

And, again, you seem to forget what site you're commenting on!

[huzzaahh]

@darkpower

Companies like to make profits, you idiot. Of course Sony wants to make money off of their games. Without profit, Sony would go bankrupt and there wouldn't be anymore Playstation. Companies like Sony have to keep the best interests of their consumers AND their investors in mind.

I can't believe how stupid people can be.

[UnwanteDreamz]

@Darkpower

"It seems they don't want you playing any games on their systems that they won't make any money off of, either! Why do you think they are so against even legit, legal homebrew games?"

Where were all those awesome homebrew games when we had Linux? There were a couple of emulators but nothing special only for PS3. Why are you pretending that this isn't the fault of hackers who used Linux to bypass Security? Had they stuck to developing home brew on the Linux side this would not be an issue.

Whatever man no matter what Sony does you people will martr the hackers

[DeadIIIRed]

@UnwanteDreams there are no homebrews and these hackers know it. It just makes for a good excuse to cover their true intentions of pirating and to a lesser extent, cheating.

[JD_Shadow]

@UnwanteDreamz

Did they have any former way to get their legal games to run on the PS3? If they did, I would LOVE to see that. I stand by my opinion. Are people going to use it to cheat and pirate? Of course. Does that mean that ALL people who ever use(d) CFW are cheats and pirates before they even do anything WITH CFW? Stop trying to see the forest from the trees. This is not the black and white issue you're making it out to be.

@huzzaahh
If you don't get banned for calling me an idiot and stupid after N4G banned me once for calling someone else an idiot a while back (and your post being lost in the process won't be a big loss since you completely missed the whole point, anyway), then there is definitely a double standard on this site.

Not to mention that, still, everyone keeps believing that this story has anything to do with the CFW to begin with. This was about a completely different thing.

[AKA]

the title is wrong the update does no ban jailbraked ps3
but those cheaters that, hack and cheat in COD BO.
SONY Has won notting and im glad they are stooping glichers.

and stopping geog.. w/e that guy name is means notting they are few much better ps3 hack than the one this guy did, plus i bet he could work undercover but not clain his hack.

SONY is stupid and is making all hackers mad, poor NGP ...

[ironmonkey]

lol that sucks, you'd have to wait for the modders to come out with a mod firmware before you can play anything. i remember psp took forever for some firmwares to come out to play new games. honestly not worth the hack. the console feels to expensive to be hacking.

[showtimefolks]

nes/snes/sega and n64 games

i know people on craiglist have their ads to say they can do it

if anyone is gonna do that they need 2 systems one for offline other for online

what's the max we can do on our hard drive? can i use a sata 7400rpm 1TB

or is 500gb the highest i can do

[Highlife]

What you want to hack to.... GTFO

[eggbert]

spending $300 on a PS3 just to emulate games that He can already emulate on PC/Phone.

makes a lot of sense...

[smashman98]

hey as long as he's not using a hacked one online i dont see what the big deal is. and yes showtime you can do all that

[saladthieves]

Laughing Out Loud!

[Soldierone]

HAHAHA Look at them all cry! Ive been waiting, now sit back and enjoy the laughs and creative excuses they come up with.

[BattleAxe]

ROFL you little bastards!!!

[xAlmostPro]

and thats what these little 12-15 year old gimps get! hacking COD thinking they're leet because they copy & pasted some code haah, this is awesome! now some cod4 bans and such please

[RBLAZE1988]

lol this made my day already...it's only 9 am haha. Eat shit hackers. Learn to behave like a normal freakin citizen of society.

[Philoctetes]

Glad they're permabanning these people. I don't play COD, but I'm looking forward to Killzone next month, and I don't want that game ruined by cheaters.

[RBLAZE1988]

agreed...though I think it would be a lot harder than hacking COD cause killzone uses dedicated servers so Guerilla Games would see right away and ban them.

[MarcusFenixITA]

yes, get these fools ... they destroyed my whole Account in MW2. I don't care if they hack their PS3 but they're not allowed to hack my PS3. Hacking can be fun but don't cause trouble on other system. Do what you want but leave me out.

[CrzyFooL]

Good. Innocent MY ASS.

I remember when all the Halo: Reach hackers said the same thing.

[Invadersims]

and every one of them was lying.

[anasurimbor]

Good.

[Kreyg]

GOOD. I hate hackers. Why can't people just play the game the way it was meant to be played?!

[duplissi]

GOOD. I hate cheaters. Why can't people just play the game the way it was meant to be played?!

fixed... see there is a difference. i will hack everything i own but i am no pirate or cheater.....

[Kreyg]

You make a very good point there. Touché sir, touché.

[Graey]

Because people are fucked up. You ever ask why we need cops. Why are their criminals in jail...why do people cheat, steal, rape, pillage, plunder haha...plunder. But seriously though its just naturally inherent in people to do shit they aren't supposed to be doing.

If they put the cheats in and called them perks or something..ppl wouldn't give 2 sh!ts...but you say oh no don't cheat and ppl come out the wood work.

[duplissi]

ah no problem :)

[jocomat9]

hahah who else likes this

[redsquad]

I don't like it, I LOVE IT!

[ReBurn]

Good. Boot the cheaters.

[Rage_S90]

looooool this is awesome reminds me of bungie you have to give treyarch some credit for this *claps hands*

[blackmamba707]

PS3 version should be called Block Ops

[redsquad]

"Bu.. bu.. bu... It's my RIGHT to cheat without consequences!"

Whinge & bleat all you want losers, nobody's listening.

[Eamon]

lol nobody said it's their "right" to cheat without consequences.

But it looks like now the multiplayer of COD:BO will be less annoying for players. I never got Black Ops so I don't really care much.

[darkdoom3000]

haha, love reading the "innocent" posts.

[Jac5al]

There is hacks for Black Ops?

[Simco876]

Being banned from Call of Duty??? Your lucky then... you don't have to play that shotty game anymore.

[LightofDarkness]

Yeah, sadly they've already cracked 3.56 as well. This will go on eternally...

[khushand]

it doesn't matter if its cracked all Sony wants to do is stop the cheaters from playing on psn.

[LightofDarkness]

But that's the problem, they haven't. They've banned the accounts, but all they have to do is crack 3.56, create a new psn ID, log back in and continue ruining things for everyone. They'll give themselves a platinum trophy and prestige themselves too for good measure.

[Cenobia]

@LightofDarkness

The message says "this console", so I am assuming it bans the mac address. I don't think a new PSN ID will cut it.

I'm not sure if a hack can change a mac address.

I wonder if this is done on a game by game basis, or if these people have been banned from PSN completely.

[khushand]

@Lightofdarkness

They permanently banned the console so they would have to go buy another console and risk hacking that and that might get banned as well. my friends console is banned and now its just a glorified blue ray player he can go buy another one but that's another 300 dollars I told him not to cheat and this was in modern combat 2.

[Dark_Vendetta]

@LoD
I don't think they banned the accounts from the servers but the console IDs, and I don't think they can simply exchange the old one as it would not allow them to connect to the PSN. But I could be wrong :)

[Rhythmattic]

@LightofDarkness

The Article states its a permanent console ban, not just a PSN ID Ban...

Which is it ?

Hopefully is a Console ban... and if it is... imagine how many extra PS3's will be sold. I'm sure alot of extra 360's were bought for this very reason.

Edit: Seems a few of you beat me to it. ^

[aaronisbla]

its also only for Black Ops, meaning it has nothing to do with sony and more to do with Treyarch banning people. Article is a bit misleading

[RBLAZE1988]

@ light of darkness, yea what you said might be true but how long do you think that they'll continue to do that. Let's say sony comes out with a patch every week. Do you think that hackers will go through all that trouble more than 3 times? Plus I think that it said that the console is banned so they'd have to get a new console. Remember that Sony has the money to go on releasing patches like this but is it really worth some guys time to jump through hoops to keep on cheating?

[Olvipoika]

justice served^^ its no good to cry when shiit is already their trousers^^

[audiojet]

Glad to hear it. Sony will have to do a little more though to combat this sh*t.

[duplissi]

sony didnt do shit, it was all treyarch.... and it only pertains to black ops

[DlocDaBudSmoka]

ha ha. u get what u give. in this case, heartache, n headaches.

[lugia 4000]

Black ops? Tat the best you got? The game sucks!

[TheMrMadzen]

Well it's kinda good since most of the hackers hack this game

[maverick1191]

lmao all the kids now crying bu bu bu my gold guns *cries* mom do something its there own fault admit it and move on

well played sony

whats the point in hacking just to get a good badge or golden guns its pathetic

[Darkseeker]

Of course, some of them are probably innocent, since the way to catch the hackers is probably in the firmware itself and is obviously not perfect.

Hell will freeze over before someone can make a security patch that can detect a hacker with 100% certainty.

[Biggest]

Yeah they were innocent. They cheated by accident. And their brother's girlfriend's cousing sold them the hacked PS3 but never told them. That's how it went.

[duplissi]

omg... ive said it a thousand times... hacking=/=cheating hacking=/=piracy... sure yeah people will hack to do that but its not the hacker who does it its the cheater/pirate who is doing this.

[Razor4901]

@duplissi You realise that your justification of all this is meaningless? The point is Without those innocent hackers the cheaters/pirates (since you think that the majority of hackers aren't pirating, rofl at that.) wouldn't be here at all. None of this would have happened. So The hackers are the root of the problem, remove them = remove the problem

[Prcko]

When i want to play black ops it says my console is banned permanently???i have payed 150$ for the Ps3 (i bought it yesterday (used) and just came home with a new copy of b-ops! but why is my system banned?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAAHAH
Well deserved IMO!!!!

[Prototype]

Why cheat in CoD anyways? People suck that bad to cheat in a game thats impossible to NOT suck at?

[Baka-akaB]

It's amazing indeed ... the game is so noob friendly that it almost entirely aim for you , but still ... people would cheat even at solitaire so ...

[TheMrMadzen]

FUCKING AWESOME SONY!
Keep up the good work

[Death2494]

Sony: "Ahh, I love the smell of banned consoles in the morning"
Remember when Microsoft did this just before MW2 launched?

[fredfenster]

Nice :)

[ZombieAssassin]

THAT'S GRRRRRREAT! Now hopefully they ban all the hackers/modders on MW2 and that'll prolly be damn near all of them.

Is this a console ban or just a ban from playing CoDBO?

[Spartacus5405]

And cod4 too
It's a classic still with a strong community

[no_more_heroes]

It's a console ban for Black Ops online ONLY, i.e. they can't access the online multiplayer on that console. They'd have to get a new console if they want to play Black Ops online again, but they can still play everything else online on that same console.

[Evolve]

Alright, what we need now is have a screen shot of the banned message . please can anyone provide us with it.

[jaredhart]

would be awesome.

[PS3n360]

You didn't go to the article obviously. There is a screenshot of the ban message half way down.

[BrianG]

He posted his comment when the article first was approved. There was no screen at the time.

As you can see, by reading the article, even looking at the top, the article was updated after posting to include that screen.

[PS3n360]

OIC well i will insert foot in mouth in 3...2...1...

[MGRogue2017]

I can almost hear all of the 12 year old Black Ops players across the world complaining about being banned.. lol

[jay2]

Great news. I feel so sorry for the people who'll grab a pre owned console and experance the ban though, come on, you know it's going to happen left, right and centre.

[Arkrite]

Wouldn't it be nice if sony added a little program that stated the console was banned from online play when switched on,
leaving all the arsehole hackers with an unsellable ps3,
you all deserve it you cheating f*#ks

[mrmikew2018]

Yea I just read off VG247 that Sony got a temporary restraining order on George Hotz. This is going to be interesting to see how this all turns out.

[NickTheHitman]

I believe that Black Ops was a test for the future. Sony will start initiating the banhammer on other games and rid the PS3 of hackers.

[Mister_G]

Hope so :)

[Close_Second]

If they ban the console what happens, since its not a hardware hack, if the console is sold to an unsuspecting buyer who finds they can't use it for on-line play?

[Carlos_Irwin_Estevez]

the second hand market collapses lol oh what a shame......its just like the 360 now.

[SpinalRemains138]

unsuspecting? Buying the console second hand consitutes "suspecting"

There are no unsuspecting buyers in the digital age of black market purchases.

Tough shit if you tried to save a few bucks and got burned.

[AssassinHD]

I am with spinal remains. Used hardware is generally sold "as is", and if you get burned then either return it if possible or suck it up if you can't.

[SLAYMANIO_ULTIMATE_1]

Soon or later...

[denero1]

uhhh so wait someones lying 3.56 banhammer there isnt even a cfw for 3.56 so you have to be banning legit users? also if these are cheaters then that would mean they didn't need cfw to cheat on the game which means you cant blame hackers for people cheating >.>

[Grimhammer00]

Yeah, 3.56 was hacked an hr after the update was live.
But, it was a Sony Trojan horse....it really just was a way to send back the Mac address of the ps3 as well as hidden identifiers.

Very smart of Sony. I love it!

[VenomProject]

FEEL THE ANGUISH, HACKER SCUM.

I'm glad Sony's fighting back, as all companies should. Hacking is a cancer to gaming.

[dorron]

It is disturbing how all of you assume they hacked their consoles even if the article doesn't mention if there was proof of it and Sony/Activision show the proof.

Have you considered the possibility of them being innocent?

If real life justice was like the posts in this thread we should all be frightened...Oh wait! it is...

[Baka-akaB]

No i havent considered it at all .

The only innocent folks would be people dumb enough to buy a used console without checking it first .

Even without the coming of hacks jailbreak etc , it would be common sense to check for any kind of failure .

And actually in real life , "i bought it on the street without knowing it was stolen" doesnt really work well neither .

[SpinalRemains138]

Innocent? no way.

Someone who purchases their console properly from the store and has not cheated at Black Ops will NEVER get caught in the crosshairs of SONY. The only way you get banned is if you purchased a back-alley PS3, or you cheated. Don't feel bad for them. They're cheaters.

[edwineverready]

This made my day. OOOH yours hacker tears are sweet. mmmmmmhhh

[Sharingan_no_Kakashi]

New psp.. banning hackers... Sony is on a roll :)

[Vip3r]

All the more reason to trade Black Ops in and get a decent FPS game. Such as BFBC2. :)

[denero1]

are these guys slow hackers and cheaters not the same dumb -_-

[ecstaticpunk]

I'm glad they're handing out bans like confetti, expect to hear a lot of "I've just brought the console" and "The other OS", I'm really happy these f*ck nuts are whining like a bunch of losers, now they know how honest gamers feel when they've been cheated on.

[Donthizz]

show no mercy!

[Skynetone]

is it safe to play MW2 know, are is it a lost cause, i think its easier to ban on b-ops with video footage evidence, but what about MW2

[Invadersims]

This is what you get for hacking the game. Just play for god's sake.

[Grimhammer00]

I'm in stitches! The rage of cfw users is music to my ears.
Take it a step further and "leak" the ip addresses of these fools so some other hackers can cannibalize each other!

[Grimhammer00]

Are we sure it's just blops? I hope it's all of these fuks!

[Ethereal]

Good, although I doubt this has anything to do with the firmware update but Sony may be doing the same thing shortly. As for the hackers in Black Ops, play the game right like the rest of us or get your console banned. Serves them right.

[Batmau5]

Awesome, well done Sony.

[PSWarlord]

Does this banning mean that all hackers will eventually will get P***ed off with having to buy new consoles or is it just a soon too broken security measure too hold off a little bit bit longer before it HACKED agsin!I FUCKING HATE HACKERS AND CHEATERS!Get a real job or give up gaming coz your onviously shit

[Sarobi]

theres already like 50 million bypasses released for it.. most of these guys are still on geohotz firmware

[bofuknjanglez]

yeah thats great and all with the restraining order but i think its too little to late i mean you guys dont think for one minute these so called "hackers" havn't wiped there hard drives and deleteted alot of sensitive information from there pc's by now???....on i side note i hope somehow sony hands these punks a big ol' can of whoop ass legal style :)

[Led-Zeppelin]

OWNED.

[GrumpyVeteran]

Inevitable.

Well done to Sony I suppose.

But it won't stop the people who just pirate games but don't use hacks on them.

[Hitman0769]

great they deserve this!

[kagon01]

"prEston124:

Today i got my account back finally an It wont let let me play online idk why it says prem ban i didnt do anything man i miss black ops well looks like i have to get a 360."

Who needs you? lmao!

Well, it seems PSN will be clean and tidy from filth for now...

[Scottyabanks]

Maybe I'll actually go out and buy Black Ops now. All the hacking and modding from the previous iterations of Call of Duty deterred me from getting it.

[ZILLA]

Fck these hackers,ban them for life.thank you!!

[jootca]

Yes!!!!!

[Dellis]

PSN needs to be a paid service, lets see how many of

the happy people here about this would be happy to

pay for Sony to stop and secure their network.

PSN PREMIUM has to happen.

[fooltheman]

what's plus then?

[Baka-akaB]

that's a silly argument anyway . The ps3 version is worse now , but every cod have been cheated to death on every platform , the 360 included .

You can pay all you want for XBl , it's still widespread

[STGuy1040]

I disagree. Cheating still happens on XBL and that's a pay service.

[SnakeMustDie]

IT'S HAMMER TIME!!!

[teething]

amen

[ftwrthtx]

Karma's a bitch. Deal with it. :-)

[Spitfire_Riggz]

HAHAHA the best part is they were so proud "oh were so kewl we broke sonys stupid 3.56 firmware in 5 minutes!!" Little did they know they were messing with the japanese ninja that is sony.. MUAHAHAHA probably installed some kind of piracy scanner in there own PS3!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[rataranian]

That's funny. COD games have been banned on my console since after 2. =\

[SuperbVillain]

muahahahah ban them all ahahhaha lets go on a banning spree!!! ahahahahahhahahahaha yesssss!!! ok done :) time to go look for more killzone and psp2 news :)

[Nightshadow]

Hahahah this made my day. It's funny how all the excuses are generally the same.

"I was going to the shops to buy milk to warm up for my grandmother,and when I got home I wanted to relax and play some PS3 but it says 'permanently banned'. I don't know why? Is it because I like to help the elderly or was it because of my major donation to find a cure for cancer? I sometimes let my grandmother play PS3, maybe it was her? Please help".

[MARNEY]

justice ;-)

[manitobawpg]

Is it possible for a false ban? or is it thorougly investigated

I havent popped black ops in for awhile due to playing gt5 and recently purchased the ps move(for kz3, socom 4).
btw ps move is so fun

either way i'm not worried but just wanted to check if someone was false banned. (p.s bought my console new from crummy walmart lol)

[XIIIWARRIOR41]

LMFAO!!!! THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED!!!! I CAN'T STAND FUCKING CHEATERS. I'M SO HAPPY SONY DID THIS. I RECENTLY STOPPED PLAYING ANY MULTIPLAYER GAMES BECAUSE OF CHEATERS. NOW SONY HAS RESTORED MY FAITH, THANK-YOU SONY!!!

[bunfighterii]

I'd like if they implemented these bans on Modern Warfare 2. Blops had hardly any hackers in comparison. You can't play MW2 without playing against a hacker now.

[GoldPS3]

Hahahaha the comments on the BO forums is hilarious. What a bunch of cry babies. Play the game fair now on.

[jeeves86]

Actually, they won't be playing fair from now on - unless Mommy and Daddy want to shell out for another console.

[jeeves86]

I'd like to see this implemented in other games. Sony should have a Department of Banhammer with undercover operatives. We can dream, right?

[Soldierone]

I paid 600 dollars for a launch console, 300 for a slim, and hundreds of dollars in all my games! I spend so much money on Sony and I deserve to play online without cheaters....oh wait, no need to complain here :P

[Edito]

Im sorry for the innocents but don’t blame sony or activision.

BLAME THE HACKERs and i hope they keep it like this...

[Apone]

This is to funny :) Epic quotes!

[lilmetal]

I hope all these bans are actually hackers...

[Spitfire_Riggz]

yeah dammit. Me trolling there forums have found out its only black ops bans...

[Bolts]

Lol banning cheaters from the BO servers does nothing. You're just doing them a favor so they can work on the KZ3 hack.

Until Sony actually have the balls to ban hackers from the PSN then nothing will change.

[XeNoStRatoS]

Aint it a perma ban from PSN as well? Hope so for the future!

[skywalkeruk]

This is what happens if you cheat guys but I do feel sorry for anyone who has legitimately not cheated and been banned it must be frustrating to prove yourself not guilty. Let's clean up Black Ops, no point cheating man it's like bringing a gun to a fist fight.... COWARDLY!!!

[XeNoStRatoS]

Awesome, hope it will last at least a couple of days. And hope that George Hotz will be sued soon with an amount of cash he will never be able to earn.

[Captain Tuttle]

It's just from one game right? They should ban them from everything.

[Shield]

The best ban messages are from parents or kids pretending to be their parents who post about their child getting banned.

LMAO...priceless!

[JoelEH]

About time. Now it's gonna be a cat a mouse game like the 360, but it's worth it for everyone.

[MeNoRasta]

Getting banned from a free online service .... thats a par.

[divideby0]

applause.... good for those.. perma bans....

bunch of whiny cry babies.. play with fire you are toast now...
go cheat offline you LOSERS

I have friends playing black ops, who didnt hack and they are playing fine..

[Tigan]

Does the patch only work for Black Ops hakcers/modders or will it work with MW2 too? I would like to see the hacks on MW2 banned too. There's nothing more frustrating than a hacker interfering with your achievements or killstreaks rewards. F*cking fags!

[tdinc]

Play with Fire you're going to get burned,. FRE FIRE FIRE!!!!!
hackers teh suk0r

[Lazy_Gamer]

They deserve it. They know it too. Not to mention that they hacked a game that already feels like a hacked game on the PS3.

[CanadianTurtle]

Sony, you have made my day, you really have. Ah man, I gotta go to those forums and check these crybabies out.

[XIIIWARRIOR41]

I agree Canadian. Gotta check out those suckers LMFAO!

[the new king 74]

Dummies! LOL

[Sarevok]

STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[CrzyFooL]

Breakin' the law, breakin' the law!!

[EVO-OM3GA]

So they are only banned from playing call of duty bo, also some of them probably aren't really hackers they may have just been in a hack lobby by choice or by accident

[hehateme9999]

lmao!!!!!! GREAT NEWS !!! well atleast they can enjoy their "home brew super nintendo games" lolololol looks like the ps3 hardware is going to skyrocket

[phatfreddy1978]

I am glad that these cheating FUCKS are getting what they deserve and I hope to see more and more dumbshit hackers get banned.
Well played SONY well played.

[LegendZelda]

Good. I hate playing with all the cheaters online

[maximuz]

Bet some the people here who are hating on geohot is using their hacked iphone to reply. Freaking hilarious!!!!

[SpinalRemains138]

LMAO!!
It might of been my friends.

Do these ppl actually think they're being clever?
-Banned! Now go play another game. Stop buying back alley Ps3s, then bitching about bein banned. Stop blaming your friends. STOP CHEATING!

These little pricks not only lie, but they're playing the sympathy card! They actually cheat, then want the electronic authorities to feel bad for them? GTFOH