I can see this causing a lot of legal trouble for Sony, who are either going to have to shut this all down pretty quickly, or impose some tough age restrictions on the Playroom and adult content.
When people are broadcasting themselves having sex and other's are watching the Playroom streams, which country's legal age of consent has jurisdiction and decides whether or not they're broadcasting underage pornography?
For example, if a Playstation 4 owner in the UK had sex with his 16 year old girlfriend on Playroom, but that was viewed by someone in America, would he be breaking US laws despite not breaking UK laws, or would only the US Playstation 4 owner be guilty of possessing or viewing child pornography?
On the other hand, since Sony is a Japanese company and this is a Japanese console, is this all governed by Japan's age of consent of just 13, and have the potential to get a lot of Western doors in the US and UK kicked in and have a lot of Western PS4s seized by the police because their owners had stumbled into a Playroom featuring the sex antics of a 13 year old Japanese girl?
How long is it going to be before some angry parent sues Sony for easily allowing their son or daughter to accidentally view under-age porn, or for supplying their household with unsolicited and unwanted child porn? After all, I'm pretty sure that nowhere on the PS4's packaging does it warn purchasers that it can be used to view live sex shows, so at the very least Sony could be sued for irresponsible advertising or not warning parents of the pornographic capabilities of the games console they bough their children for Christmas.
