Sony and PlayStation.com Brought Down By Anonymous Attack, More to Follow...
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Everyone who's bashing Anonymous, what are they supposed to do? Do a fast unto death at Freedom park? Or sit at home and get bullied by assholes at Sony like most of you are used to?
People buy shit from sony, these people disrupt services, people blame sony, Sony realizes its mistake. Thats the plan probably, atleast before you guys took to bashing the poor guys.
People buy shit from sony, these people disrupt services, people blame sony, Sony realizes its mistake. Thats the plan probably, atleast before you guys took to bashing the poor guys.
While I wouldn't presume to know anyone's intentions in this matter, I do understand the frustration on both sides of the line.
For what it's worth, I understand Sony's position on the matter. They are trying very hard to protect the integrity of their product and it's subsequent and immediate vendors & publishers. This hack gives the general public the ability to take away a lot of business from the people that put in a lot of time and effort to make these games. Going after the people that actually pirate these games is not an easy task because of the sheer volume of them. Instead, companies like Sony often try to attack the supersource of the problem. That is where the problem begins. Do you have the right to go after a keymaker even though he was not directly involved in the crime of theft at your house? That is the big question. Like with anything else, his services can be used for both good and bad, but can we as a society penalise him for providing the service that he offers? The simple answer is that we cannot, unless we know beyond all reasonable doubt that his intentions were wrong.
That is the exact same case here. Geohot gave people the access to a tool / hack that enables them to do both good & bad. The PS3 is a really powerful machine and it's use in the home entertainment category are limitless. His hack can really do wonders for the open source community in developing great apps (paid / free) going forward. Unfortunately though, his hack, like everything else in the world, can do and is doing a lot of damage in the hands of the wrong people. At this point the only people that are guilty are the ones who are actually pirating, distributing and using the games without actually purchasing them. Current legislation does not make it easy for any one company to go after an ocean of people who are actualy pirating these games. As such, companies like Sony are trying to change the way in which law is enforced. While we can all understand their position, if companies like Sony are allowed to impose what you can and cannot do on a product that you have purchased, then the legal system as we know it will no longer exist and the imposition on our rights as consumers will be devastating.
I'll leave you to ponder on the implications of such a decision.
As far as Geohot is concerned, I think it will eventually boil down to his intentions. If Sony can prove that his intentions were to stir up piracy in the world of PS3 gaming, then he will most likely be convicted. If not, I doubt they will be able to nail him on the grounds of hacking into a Sony PS3 that he fully owns. At best they can deny him any warranty, but beyond that I doubt anything else will stick.
For what it's worth, I understand Sony's position on the matter. They are trying very hard to protect the integrity of their product and it's subsequent and immediate vendors & publishers. This hack gives the general public the ability to take away a lot of business from the people that put in a lot of time and effort to make these games. Going after the people that actually pirate these games is not an easy task because of the sheer volume of them. Instead, companies like Sony often try to attack the supersource of the problem. That is where the problem begins. Do you have the right to go after a keymaker even though he was not directly involved in the crime of theft at your house? That is the big question. Like with anything else, his services can be used for both good and bad, but can we as a society penalise him for providing the service that he offers? The simple answer is that we cannot, unless we know beyond all reasonable doubt that his intentions were wrong.
That is the exact same case here. Geohot gave people the access to a tool / hack that enables them to do both good & bad. The PS3 is a really powerful machine and it's use in the home entertainment category are limitless. His hack can really do wonders for the open source community in developing great apps (paid / free) going forward. Unfortunately though, his hack, like everything else in the world, can do and is doing a lot of damage in the hands of the wrong people. At this point the only people that are guilty are the ones who are actually pirating, distributing and using the games without actually purchasing them. Current legislation does not make it easy for any one company to go after an ocean of people who are actualy pirating these games. As such, companies like Sony are trying to change the way in which law is enforced. While we can all understand their position, if companies like Sony are allowed to impose what you can and cannot do on a product that you have purchased, then the legal system as we know it will no longer exist and the imposition on our rights as consumers will be devastating.
I'll leave you to ponder on the implications of such a decision.
As far as Geohot is concerned, I think it will eventually boil down to his intentions. If Sony can prove that his intentions were to stir up piracy in the world of PS3 gaming, then he will most likely be convicted. If not, I doubt they will be able to nail him on the grounds of hacking into a Sony PS3 that he fully owns. At best they can deny him any warranty, but beyond that I doubt anything else will stick.
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