Edited sentence: A warning was given requesting people to stop the protest and leave the premises.After the allotted warning time, characters were randomly teleported to other planets.Around August 2004, Sony became aware that some players had found a way to forge large amounts of in game currency (credits).May players received "drive by" donations from the players who had generated the forged credits.Sony decided to ban all of them as well, as there was no way to determine if they received the credits knowing they were forged or not.The controversy arose because the in game trading system allows players to simply give other players something for free without the receivers interaction.They decided to ban all of these players.This exploded into a mass in game protest on the Intrepid server at Theed.This spawned many complaints on the various forums