Sony deserves it. Really, I was excited for "Playstation Home" when it was first announced because their original idea was to pretty much give users access to a free "Second Life" type experience through their console, where the users could do pretty much whatever they wanted, wherever they wanted. Needless to say someone then looked at "Second Life" and said "well, except for the naked people in the sky" (that was close to an exact quote). Then someone realized "well hey, if we let people create all their own stuff like Second Life, and don't charge premiums for storage space we're missing out on a potential goldmine. It's actually just easier if we let users create nothing and then sell all the clothes, furniture, and add ons ourselves and pocket the money. For a while they held onto video streaming but then as people make it clear "Oh cool, I'll stream my porno collection in my online suite for anyone that wants to see some truly demented stuff" they decided to pretty much kill the idea of video/audio sharing as well.... and to be honest
I've never logged into Playstation Home as a result.
The fact is that people are going to express themselves, and that means sexually, and sexual expression can get fairly warped. It's part of the human condition, and really people need to get use to it. Anyone who doesn't think any communications tool isn't going to be turned to communicating perverse material is fooling themselves. Really the oddest part of this is a company as paranoid as Sony never thought that a webcam attached to their consoles wouldn't be used for the same things webcams are used for on computers (and indeed some advertising campaigns have even revolved around the implied erotic uses).
Personally I still maintain the internet should be about freedom, and corporations, government censorship, and everything else can basically go pound sand somewhere. My basic attitude is that if you don't like it, create your own little virtual bubble somewhere and stay in it, and let everyone else have their fun. If your a parent, put your children into that "online bubble" and actually be a parent in policing it.
The thing that kind of gets me here is that I have no real interest in tracking down Playstation webcam porn (I mean I'm an adult, I can get as much porn as I want... and truthfully the fascination/urgency with porn for me passed long ago), but at the same time I kind of feel that if this is really want people to do with their time, go for it. Just label yourself appropriately, I mean you don't want to have some girl filming herself being triple penetrated show up as a file pretending to be footage from an "E" rated educational game for example. The people who do that (ie use the internet to expose themselves to children) are a separate situation, but again a lot of that comes down to parents not doing their jobs and screening material.
