• Banned PSN Player Sues Sony…Again

    Posted by Mike Yawney on October 27th, 2009 View Comments
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    We'd be pissed too if we were banned!

    Erik Estavillo is heading back to court. You may remember Estavillo is the gamer who tried to sue SCEA last summer for being banned from the Playstation Network. He claimed Sony suppressed his free speech rights and caused him pain and suffering by banning his account on the PlayStation Network after supposedly acting like a jerk off online. The judge threw out the case, but that’s not stopping Estavillo from trying again.

    This time Estavillo is pursuing a civil suit seeking $180,000 in damages; more than three times the amount of his original claim. He still maintains SCEA has caused “pain and suffering” because the PS3 is “the only way the plaintiff can truly socialize since he also suffers from Agoraphobia.” Estavillo is also demanding Sony no longer implement bans of any sort.

    We understand the concept of “if at first you first don’t succeed try and try again. Good luck on that one Estavillo. Then again,

    [Via GamePolitics]

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