TjT writes, "From PSO message board ANNOUNCEMENTS:
"The reason is because alot of are customers have been complaining about our double save patch corrupting their files, so we have granted free access to PSO from August 5th till September 9th.
Posted on:11:01 am on Aug. 6, 2003""

[b]UPDATE: This is a hoax. Someone hacked into the sega message board admin account and posted this to fool PSO users, so there is no free time.