TBH if you were a real pro at this you would set up a proxy server so that your hacking shenanigans don't trace back to you in a FBI investigation. Using internet cafe's under an alias works too lol

You need to pump your brakes ratamaq. This isn't identity theft in any form of the phrase. Good of you to throw it around like buzzwords in a corporate sales meeting though. If anything, the CEO is in violation for sharing his account info as well. Sony and CCP could easily just ban both people and wash their hands of it. What they actually do though, is up to them and your wall of text means nothing.

Finally, let me clearly say that I don't think this is 'metagaming' at all. This is 100% over the line but is not illegal.

So essentially, what we are saying is that if I setup a honeypot PSN and roleplay an oversharing nerd with sad brains and my infos get 'fished,' I can put a dude in prison?

Okay. Now we're really metagaming here!

lolwut?

Meta game is within the game. The PSN account is out of the game so therefore is not meta game.

WTF is meta game anyway. It just sounds like an excuse to act like a total ****.

That's like saying it isn't breaking & entering if all you do is delete someone's Final Fantasy savegames while you're in.

lets put it another way. You tell someone where you live and thoughtlessly leave your keys on your chair. Do you think it is illegal if the person then proceeds to use your key to enter your house without permission.

Or how about when cops set up a sting car, leave the door unlocked, and a mobile phone on display. Do you think taking taking the phone or the car is legal just because the car door was unlocked.

Generally granting "permission" can be the difference between legal and illegal.

As to the matter of going to jail it is probably unlikely unless you have been doing it a lot or committing other offences. However, just because it might be considered a relatively minor crime doesn't make it any less a crime.

PS. I was never the one to raise the issue of jail only that gaining access to a PSN account without permission particularly for your express benefit is still a crime.

Answered your own question. It also is often used by CCP to wash their hands of many things, regardless of relevancy. Sort of a intellectual property version of signed paper waivers. Works good for support tickets/petitions, may lose steam if someone brings the local laws into play.

Virtual Crime generally gets a free pass but cyber bullying does not. Good luck trying to find any lines.

That's like saying it isn't breaking & entering if all you do is delete someone's Final Fantasy savegames while you're in.

someone being careless with their PSN password or info that leads to said password is not in any circumstances equivalent to a B&E.

Please make more bad rl comparisons.

My apologies for completely undermining your argument.

Wait, so I can't do illegal stuff on the internet?
Better hide my internet blackjack and internet hookers

Neither of these issues are similar to what you said happened at all. Both of the above examples include property being stolen. In your OP, the only violation is of account sharing or at worse, fishing for account info. The above will lead to prosecution, your OP scenario is extremely shaky since no money or property was actually taken.

All that will happen is Sony/CCP will shut down accounts.