This is honestly too bad for those who enjoy the online gaming scene. This pretty much takes it from a game to a job. You could argue that it already was a job before ;) but these addicts (that is what they are) will be getting paid for it. Of course we don't need to go into how this basically destroys the in game economy and game play. I think this is a bad movie on Sony's part. Yeah this is already going on in the underground markets, and sony is just getting a slice of the pie. In the end I think they'll loose more gamers then they keep.
They are doing this on seperate servers. Even so, it appears to not be going over well with many players.
I dont see it that way, I see this as capitalism in action, imagine even playing a game can make somebody a buck. So what if some guy wants to spend doezens of hours a week to make a few buck, its his loss.