I think the ID may have just been hit. I got on my NTSC account and it worked fine. I shut down the PS3 and came back to it around 5 minutes later and tried it on my PAL account to find out that it said the system has been banned. (this was after I activated the ID) I decided to try on my NTSC account as well to double check, and it was the same way. System Banned lol. I got a whole 5 minutes of use out of it. Thanks all the same though. It's great people hand these out like this for everyone.