Why, Anonymous, Why?

R834 finds the PS3 hacking scenario annoying, but the fact that Anonymous is targeting Playstation.com with DDoS attacks is making him wonder: Why are they doing it? and Who is really losing, Sony or the customers?

[GrieverSoul]

"Why, Anonymous, Why?"

Answer: Attention!! They want attention!!
Their pursuit for freedom of speech is making them look like fanatics. They remind me of some sort of terrorist group (and after that video...). Either it goes their way or it doenst go anyway.

These guys seriously need to get their head checked.

[TotalPS3Fanboy]

GeoHot: "When you take something from someone else without permission, you are not stealing. No. You're only LIBERATING the thing that you are taking. For example, you have ENSLAVED your password to your mind, however, RIGHTOUS hackers have the DIVINE RIGHT to LIBRATE that password from your RICH mind and give it to the POOR people of the INTERNET, the PIRATES."

Hackers: "In the name of the Divine Basement Dwellers, I claim Sony's Intellectual Property for the Pirates of the Internet, as set forth in the Manifest Destiny of the Hacker Mind."

[Derekvinyard13]

you guys can talk shit about them all you want but there not going to stop. they recently destroyed the church that hates gay people.( think its south baptist) they released all there documents. sony better have some real good tech guys because this isnt going to end. @ Griev- i thought it was attention to untill they took down the website and AT@T a while back. intresting stuff tho, looking to see what happens when sony fires back

[sdtarm]

The should grow the fuck up and get a life

[Oxymoron028]

Derekvinyard, it's the West Borrow Baptist Church, and no they haven't been destroyed. Anonymous just inconvenienced them. Nothing more.

[fantasygamer]

@ Derekvinyard13

I applaud them for attacking that disgusting church of crazy people. BUT! this is a different matter this is a entertainment company and what they are doing is hurting the consumers.

Also PSN is a free service for people who buy there games and follow the rules. hackers and thieves should be banned.

[morganfell]

As shuri on Neogaf stated:

"From the depth of mom's basement I stab at thee!!"

And another good thought that was posted in the same thread,

"Why does stuff like "we have the right to" so often come from people who don't actually produce anything?"

[evrfighter]

They also brought down that law firm that bullies torrenters into settling out of court. I believe the UK prime minister denounced that law firm after anon got through with them.

[Active Reload]

I can see how this can be annoying especially with the method(s) Sony uses to handle the situation. It could be a double whammy for some people--ones that play online--seeing as though 1. Sony takes PSN down for maintence 2. Sony starts with the update/patches for the security threats. If you don't play games online then you'll probably be lucky only getting hit with #2....

[Oner]

I posted this the other day about GeoNot...funny how it also applies here as well ~

[HolyOrangeCows]

From West Burrow for hate and Scientology for brainwashing, to Sony for protecting their intellectual properties?

Someone has not only forgotten, but also lost sight of what's important.

@Oner
Futurama, Kidnapster :)

[Koblec]

Sony is simply too huge a company for a butt-hurt group of basement dwellers to take down. Anonymous can only do so much.

[zag]

An interesting fact.

Anon claim to be about freedom.

Yet don't want to give any of their own personal details out about themselves.

So they really aren't about freedom at all.

This will just get SOny to bring in the police etc and round up these people they'll also be put under the terroit group banner.

these people can say/do what they think, yet once they are placed in that basket, all their bank account will be frozen and and while you think you can run while on the net, you can't really run in the real world.

[I_find_it_funny]

cos he's a butthurt idiot thinking he's fighting for something

how dare he talk about Sony customers when he's the one who's downloading free games

[Moentjers]

someone should hack his creditcard and liberate his money to the world !

idiots.

[RedDragan]

Anon are not in this for the people, they have never done anything for me.

I wouldn't be suprised if one day another group is born with the sole aim of exposing the bank accounts of all Anon members, as well as their home addresses and names.

It could happen, alot of genuine people are getting annoyed with the Anon group. They may yet have to reap what they sow.

[sikbeta]

All this douche-hackers always tend to act like communists who think Intellectual Property doesn't mean anything!? Grow the F**K UP!!

[DragonKnight]

Does Anon have a website they use? Wouldn't it be ironic if Sony organized a DDoS against them if they do? Lol. I'd do it if I were Sony just for the lulz.

[FarEastOrient]

This does not make sense! Attack Sony but not organizations like Gadhafi, Ivory Coast, Syria, Burma, and etc. Freedom of Speech, these guys are hypocrites for attacking a company protecting IP while the world is going through changes.

[hazardman]

WTF, really. They have a pirate hacker code..hahahahaahahaaha...hahaa hahahahaahaha!!!!
Lmao!!

[paintsville]

Wow. This thing is really getting out of control. It's pretty simple really. If he broke the law then there grounds for Sony's actions. If not then Sony should back off. If hackers are attacking Sony's sites and distributing personal information about their employess that's against the law and they should be stopped. The law is the law period.

[gamingdroid]

"An interesting fact.

Anon claim to be about freedom.

Yet don't want to give any of their own personal details out about themselves."

I will repeat what I said when somebody else made the same comment you did:

"Free speech is unrelated to privacy. In fact, free speech means you can say "things" without being persecuted so why would you need their information?"

[Gothdom]

By doing what they're doing, if Anonymous' informations about their members would come out, psn users could create a class-action lawsuit on them.

Also, by "attacking" the judge, they're basically creating their own grave. It is a criminal offense.. And it might tighten the grip the US will have on software rights.

I think these actions will only result in aggravating their own case.

[thats_just_prime]

Wow n4g has got to be the largest collection on ingorant hypocrites on the web. Every single person on here has illegally down at least one song in there live. bet over 90% have illegally downlaod or watch a movie online and it common play for people to brag about how mean games they play illeaglly on emulators. you fangirls a f'ing pathetic and the one that need to get a life. You think $ony give a shit about you ? Get real and you are maddly in love with a piece of plast with a few wire in. Bet more then one or twon of you take them to bed and try to have sex with it.
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$ony are also hypocrites. They are all pissed off ate geohotsz. For "stealin" from them. and bte he didnt steal anything the law is if you buy something you own and can do what ever you want with it. When $ony steal all the time they stoled rumble tech. Leaving the ps3 with not rumbele control till $ony was fond guilty in a court of law and had to pay the rightful owners of that tech millions. $ony also shipped the ps2 out knowing it never worked (remember DRE ) and again it $ony was fond guilty in a court of law.

So $ony done more to hurt it customers then Anonymous could ever hope to

[Thatguy-310]

Is anyone else having trouble logging on to psn?

Is it because of the hacking war going on ? =/

[Elvfam511]

I am...
@Dboyc310

It might be....

"PlayStation Network Connection Issues April 4, 2011

You may experience intermittent connection issues with the PlayStation Network. We are aware of the issue and are attempting to correct this as soon as possible. If you are having issues connecting online, try connecting at a later time. We apologize of any inconvenience.
Dring this time you may:

Not be able to access the PlayStation®Store
Have difficulty signing in to the PlayStation®Network
Not be able to play online games
See a maintenance page when attempting to access the PlayStation®Network

Note: When you log into the PlayStation Network, a message may appear which states, "the PlayStation Network has been suspended". This does not mean that your account has been suspended; it simply means the PlayStation Network has been taken offline. Please wait until the maintenance window has passed before attempting to connect to the PlayStation Network again. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. "

[Thatguy-310]

This is the reason why hackers really Grind My Gears !!!!!! First they plague some of the games I play online and now their actions are prohibiting from playing ,streaming etc. All together !! >=|
Hopefully Sony teaches them the same lesson their teaching GeoHot
Why won't people learn from others mistakes?

[Scrupuless]

You guys really don't see the big picture do you, in this day in age we are in the middle of defining informatoin technology, and the right of people to access and build upon that knoweldge. This becomes increasingly difficult when the major corporations of the world decide to put a vice grip on tech and tech based info. We the people make and design this technology, sure in this example the proprietary code in question was deveolped by sony employees, it was none the less a human feat, that sony as a corparation "owns". Whilst this may be a standard for today, i would hope in the future that we could see beyond our and their selfish needs. Sony is only protecting there profitabilty and thus survivability in todays social econimic environment, free the informatoin technology and humanity will benefit. Albeit this particular example is not so much going to benefit the world as a whole, but in principle i believe it to be morally correct. A more extreme and relatable example would be pharmcutical corparatoins and all the the greed they demonstarte through not sharing their life saving medications with us, instead if you cannot afford your mediatoin you suffer. Principly these are the same issue,technicle information must be liberated, , corporations and governments have a right to hand the power and knowledge, we have been strong armed into give them, back to us. Human ingenuity is the mother of progress, not free enterprise and certainly not the blood sucking corporations of the world, ya dig!

[RedDragan]

Matthew, lets get one thing straight.

If you and your fellow Anon members got their way then their would be no money in medication and that would mean no medication at all.

Cease your operations because you are scum!

[UnwanteDreamz]

Red Dragon is right. Who produces the code the devices etc..? Not hackers they only manipulate another persons hard work. Sony is a large corporation but what about the small time guy in his basment working on a piece of software or an application that he has created? Shouldn't this person have his work protected? What about these large corp? Without them who would fund the intelligent minds of creators?

Your logic has flaws. In a perfect world everything would be free, but who would work to make these things and what would be their compensation?

[Jezuz]

NO, they aren't attention whores. Just doing what they do, so when Anon brought down the girl throwing puppies into a river ? It was all for attention?

[zag]

Anon wouldn't have done shit.

People would have brought that bit of info to the police law etc.

Anon are just going to piss off every single person who wishes to use the PSN etc.

That is besides the point of pissing off a multi billion dollar company, that can happily pay for PD to chase down these people.

You can hide from your birth cert, bank accounts, houses, loans, taxes, jobs.

People though Sony would never find Graf who got busted with in 2 weeks of posting stuff.

These Anon people only assume they can get pinged.

[RankFTW]

There's a difference between somebody casually murdering puppies and someone protecing their IP.

[madara0sama]

The anons that brought down that girl differs from these basement dwellers. There are billions of anon do not forget that fact. I for one can't wait till Sony catches these idiots and put them in jail. Who honestly supports these hackers but stupid kids that want free games. Might as well attack Walmart instead.

[lelo2play]

I don't agree with hacking... but I believe a PS3 owner has the right to do what the hell he wants with it. He bought it, so it's his to do what ever he wants. If he want's to install custom firmware then it's his problem. It's the same as buying a PC that comes with Windows OS, and you want to install another OS but can't because the pc manufacturer strictly prohibits it. Sony should just back the fuck off... and try to improve the PS3 security with better patches. Apple had the same problem... and what resulted from that is that it made jailbreaking a phone totally legal.

BTW ... from the article...

"When games aren't even that expensive, why not just buy legally? Please?"

Where I live a new console game at the store costs 65€-70€. If you say that's not expensive for a game, then you must be a rich man. I normally buy them from UK's ebay for 30-35£... and I still find them expensive.

Software companies should seriously try to sell games cheaper. The way this is going, the next console generation are going to have games at 100€ (this generation already has special edition games at 100€+ ).

[xxBiG_BoSSxx]

owning something does not give you free reign to do whatever you want with it if that action affects others. owning your own home does not permit you to erect a fifty foot wall around its perimeter. or smear it with feces. it would diminish property value, thus affecting the value of your neighbors property. installing cfw is not the problem. its sharing the directions to do so that is.

if information should be free then so should everything. but that makes no sense. i think information, much like respect or money should be earned. hackers aren't born jailbraking anything other than the womb. they work at it. people who haven't should not be given the information to hack or install cfw because those people will more than likely not run homebrew apps and just pirate games and eff up the play experience of others cause they are looking for the easiest path.

also, accounting for inflation games are actually much cheaper than they should be. disc based games have consistently been in the $50-$60 range since 1995, and cartridge games were costing $80 in the 1980's.

[zag]

So you buy car.

That gives me the right to steal it and you don't give a fuck about it.

great stuff love it.

[Nivalis]

"Sony should just back the fuck off... and try to improve the PS3 security with better patches."

They have done so, hence why pirates and cfw users can't currently use PSN, and you'll note too that they're not actually attacking anyone who jailbreaks their machine, they actually sent out a polite email to everyone with a detected device/cfw, asking them to update or face losing access to psn.

The only people they're going after, are the main people that allowed piracy to become a problem, don't make it in to some major war where Sony are out to sue every last living soul with cfw installed, because they're not.

I fail to see how them wanting to protect their customers from hackers and cheaters, and protect their business by attempting to stop piracy, and taking to court those that caused the problem, applies to the average joe who just installed a cfw.

[ravinash]

So that means I have the right to buy a car and then remove the brakes so it will go faster.

What ever you buy you can do what you want with it within REASON.
Fact is you can take a hammer to your PS3 if you want, but if you take the property rights of the code that is running on the PC and then give or sell the items out to others, then that is stealing.

Its very simple, so stop trying to justify it by saying your brought it. because you didn't...you brought the software and agreed to their conditions when you started to use it.

[an0nym0us]

I only hack ps3 games to distribute it on the internet for everyone to download for free.

[Morbius420]

that makes you part of the problem and also an ass.

[ravinash]

..and in so doing making sure the developers get no more money as so close and then no one will have games.
Yeah, nice one!

[zeal0us]

They are only doing what THEY believe is right.

[hakis86]

I guess we can call this a classic case of pouring petrol on the blazing fire.

[iamtehpwn]

Anon is legion.

[Octo1]

Well written article that makes a lot of sense. Sadly only a few people will actually get it :S

[kenpachi]

We are anonymous

We are worthless

We are virgins

We are to pu$$y to show our real names

We will not forget that you prevented us from Pirating game

We mad.

[electricshadow]

I lol'd. +bubs for making me laugh.

[thekiddfran]

haha brilliant!

[Pwee]

lol, funny cause its truee!

[chaos-lockheart]

not just pirate games, ruining the whole online experience, for people want to play the game.

[PirateThom]

It's annoying me, but not because of Sony because some low lifes are stopping me from accessing it.

[trounbyfire]

is it down right now

[princeofthabay]

yea

[El-Fenemeno1213]

"Do you guys remember that recent PS3 update with all those great new features? No, me neither, because all of the recent updates are security patches!"

^^^^^^^^^^

[trounbyfire]

point is what

we got clouds saves and new crap is coming

they didn't drop everything to make sec. updates thing were already being worked on

[Ares84]

Clearly you are a moron if you can't figure that out but let me help you.

Sony must focus all of it's efforts on making the PS3 more secure instead of new features and functionality because....guess....guess...fu cking hackers.

Now, you know as well. Congratulations!

[El-Fenemeno1213]

point is if this bullshit continues there might be a lack of new features because of money being used on security. In the end the consumers are suffering cause of it.

C'mon every time I see an update I think to myself it must be more fucking security measures. Yea -_-, i don't want it to stay that way

[BubbleSniper]

his point--->

--->because hackers keep @ it on Sony

so instead of puttin new features an givin us a lil somethin extra... hackers make SONY focus nstead on security measures...

they gotta protect they own ass before anything or wont be any features to handout!

capiche?!

[BubbleSniper]

i see your new edit with...

ofcourse they dint drop everythin to make it more secure...

they still gonna roll features out, but will be less

basically it disrupt the flow of feature wed get anyhow!

there no right to this any way you look at it unless it just STOPS

[PirateThom]

Pretty sure I got cloud storage with the last one.

[El-Fenemeno1213]

Plus did. Not everyone. So if that continues they will essentially have to charge us to gain new features. Seems fair =D /s

P.S. i got plus to and i still care

[hesido]

@El-Fenemono:
You have to understand why cloud saves are a paid service, it takes real resources to build it into the game os, store the info and make that info safe, and Sony needs to offload the costs of PSN from somewhere, and make Plus subscription a worthy investment. However, some games could come with cloud save feature even for users without Plus.

That said, if cross game chat if it ever comes will be a plus feature, it will be worthless.

[SnakeMustDie]

Didn't Sony released a patch for Cloud Storage weeks ago?

[EpsilonTeam]

It is the first time i swear from the bottom of my heart. FUCK YOU geocunt FUCK YOU anonymous and any other pirate out there. Phew now i can finish with my toilet.

[ChristianGamer]

Lol. This site is so biased. This bad language is tolerated when the offender is doing it in SONY's defence or honour.

[Bear_Grylls]

Go to hell.

[awesomeperson]

@ Bear

+1

Chrissy please shut up.

[Istanbull]

then what are u doing on this site u faggot

[JamieLeeC93]

Shut the fuck up. :)

[Hanuman]

Now, Now children..settle down. We shouldn't go and fight amongst each other in these times of war.

@Christiangamer; Ever since Jesus said "Judas!, you f'in d*ck!" when he heard he got betrayed and God cried out "shit!" when he realized he created Country music, I believe it's ok to swear in public. _0/

[jmare]

Maybe they should just change their name to iTerrorist. It amazes me that they don't grasp the irony of a group calling itself Anonymous fighting for the free flow of information.

[trounbyfire]

screw them they do nothing anyway. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE , annoy people?

all i am saying it that we are not some government site or credit card site that has to follow rules we have people that can hack as well.

WRONG GROUP or people

[Loner]

Does the term "troll" come to mind.Thats what they want to do to you and the people here fall for it all too easily.Just look at the previous comments.A bunch of people genuinely butthurt over this
Too funny

@ redDevil87

Nope.But i can see how non pro PS3 opinions might make people think that given the demographic of the site is about 90 percent PS3 fans

[redDevil87]

I bet the term "troll" is on your mind 24/7

"nope" lies. All you do is come onto this site and troll. Admit it, your addicted to trolling.

[FFXI101]

He does trolling all the time. He has no friends or girlfriend in real life.

That's what he did everyday, troll.

[SSKILLZ]

Don't they have something better 2 Do ... Like sucking GeoHots man-Gina

[wray77]

Perhaps you should be asking why Sony needs IP addresses?

[jmare]

While that may have been a step too far on Sony's part, the fact remains it was done in response to trade secrets being leaked and everyone who viewed those videos is in possession of Sony's confidential information. You're getting pissed over what amounts to a burglar getting the shit kicked out of him when the owners catch him stealing.

[Silly gameAr]

I just figured they already had my IP address considering I have a PSN account.

[PirateThom]

To prove enough people in California downloaded the software/accessed the site to keep the case in California, they were only allowed the Californian IP addresses and aren't doing anything else with them.

[earbus]

They will get over it i suggest you do to come for a game on 360 earbus welcomes you .

[princeofthabay]

pretty sure 360 has it's own hacking problems atm

[nskrishna2]

Lolololololol...
I can't believe you said that...
troll of the year..
Hahahahaha...
Man i'll give you a bub for making me laugh this hard...even when you're an obvious troll

[jrbeerman11]

maybe...maybe not.

Not impossible for someone to ask PS3 users to come play on 360 while PSN is down?

He could be trolling though, just not as obvious as you may have thought.

[nskrishna2]

hm..maybe you're right...

I didn't think of it that way

[Ares84]

I'm sorry but they are blocking my freedom of viewing that site. So how does this work now?? it's ok for them to enforce their shit on everyone but when Sony is doing it to protect their own property it's not ok???

Hackers are the lowest of the low. I imagine they are all in their late teens early 20's. Full of acne in mommy's basement. Probably push 200+LBS each and only seen a woman in a video. So because they don't have a life that means they should make life misrable for others too. Well I'm not going to be misrable if they take down sony.com or playstation.com but if they fuck up PSN I will be pissed as hell.

[DarkSpawnClone]

yeah true..in a way there hurting us as well from trying to stop us from going on sonys sites it's like double standards there going off about freedom of speech(which is BS) but at the same time there making us lose our freedom's to play hack free online games, access sony site's ect,this is reall bogus and don't even get me started on the idiots that think because we don't want the ps3 hacked that makes all of us fanboys -_-, i don't know how many people on this site play games on PC if you do then you know why i don't want hackers on PSN some games are hacked to hell and unplayable because of it we don't want this on PSN hell i would'nt wish that on XBL.

[jrbeerman11]

darkspawnclone I am with you 100% even bought crysis 2 on ps3 instead of PC for that exact reason. I really dont want ps3 or xbox live for that matter to turn into the pc scene.

not that pc scene is broken, but some games really get hacked hard. Every time u play game online you wonder who is using aimbot or cheats.

[redDevil87]

Because they're attention whores. They need to grow the hell up. They always talk about how how they're doing it "for the little guy".

Well i'm one of the little guys and PSN is down because of them. How is that helping me? I want to play Socom, check the store etc. They clearly don't give a fuck about anything apart from causing problems.

[FFXI101]

They clearly don't, F**k them and F**K Geof@g.

[andron]

Great job puckers. Now do something that doesn't interfere with my hobby. Ok?...

[Yo Mama]

People, stop posting articles about this group and they'll go away. They're just attention whoring kids from 4chan. All they do is start a DOS attack at whoever they're mad at, then once it's fixed, they move on. That's the extent of their "power". My nine year old nephew could start a DOS attack. They should be feared about as much as a bothersome sand gnat at the beach or a case of "bubble guts" after eating Mexican food.

[cjflora]

Agreed. Pings are not hacks.

[DrillaKid]

Some misplaced sense of justice; these guys obviously havent read the court reports - all i hear is "hacking isnt illegal" and so on. But Sony arent suing that loser for hacking, theyre suing him for distributing codes thereby recklessy facilitating piracy.

They should get some real jobs programming software and see how they feel when some hacker steals one of their "brillaint" software ideas - they'd turn their argument around then.

[Prcko]

that anoymus guy is some idiot from basement who just want that everything is free on this world!!!
Well m8 you need to learn to live,IF YOU FUUCC WANT PLAY GAMES PAY FOR THEM,OR DON'T PLAY IT FFS!!!

Oh i am hungry,i don't have place to stay,i don't have car,i am lazy idiot who don't wanna work,HEY LET'S ROB A BANK,yeah that's a solution - Hackers are the same -,-

go to hell!!!

[waltyftm]

Bunch of WANKERS.

[OcelotRigz]

Because they have nothing better to be doing, sad bastards.

[telekineticmantis]

This new generation is out to destroy the industry. While I'm trying to get my family and friends into gaming people continue to make it hard for them to like it with all these hacks and piracy resulting in company shutdowns... Why? is a great question, and without anything that supports a meritable worthy reason, I'm gonna have to think it's attention because no reason I've heard of is worthy.

[helghast102]

Underage legion tosspots

[Eamon]

It's quite funny reading the above comments.

[Elyxir-pSx]

You didn't Know? clueless Comments are allowed on N4G.

[SlyFoxC]

People need to stop feeding the egos of this stupid group of misfits...

if you give them attention they will just keep doing it...

if you want sony to add new stuff, im going to guess that making them do more work than needed is not very much help...

but you can help us all by jumping in front of a moving bus, and yes i will laugh at you and say, "I do not forget, i do not forgive, and i really do not give a shit about you!"

[gamingisnotacrime]

the quicker security agencies will get on their asses

[Lamarthedancer]

"Do you guys remember that recent PS3 update with all those great new features? No, me neither, because all of the recent updates are security patches!"

So true....good point though

[SeraphimBlade]

People Sony has pissed off: a small group of hackers and the obscure "Other OS" users

People Anonymous has pissed off: Damn near everyone who just wants to play freaking video games

I guess that means anon is winning?

[VelvetHammer]

So is this why i keep getttin kicked off of psn now? For real? Your motive is to attack Sony but in all reality us hard working ppl who have jobs and want to come home relax and chill while playing us some games online. Your taking that away from me now? No wonder so many countries hate us americans we got nothing but glorified punks just taking everything that isnt there's. Idk who these guys are and i dont care to know but in seriousness there ruining my gaming now!

[DarkSpawnClone]

PSN is up and running now :) just signed in.

[Lindsey]

Que thunderous choir from the heavens

[DarkSpawnClone]

maybe some thing like this ? XD "thunderous choir"

[OMEGAXS1]

"hard working ppl who have jobs and want to come home relax and chill while playing us some games online." That's whats up.

[omi25p]

does R834 always talk about himself in 3rd person?

[R834]

That's how N4G submissions work, don't they? :S

In the submissions introduction, it tells you to change the information about article into third person for the.

I don't talk about myself in third person in my articles - that would just be weird.

[omi25p]

never seen that rule before.

[xtremegamerage]

Maybe he likes TPS.

[AntiHeroComplex]

i think its great that they are doing it. It shows the true faces of hackers and what they stand for. Hopefully courts will stop giving criminals free passes and start jailing them.

[an0nym0us]

Why cause i don't care, i just don't fucking care sue me.

[Haseo106]

Why? Well very easy to understand.
Because they are:

Trashes of our society
Dumb-asses
Pathetic

[TheComedian]

CURSE YOU /b/!!! Somewhere,somehow...I know you are responsible for this one as well...

[olLANDSHARKlo]

Time to get rid of my PS3 and buy more stuff for my 360, these guys aren't gonna stop till they have destroyed Sony.

[AntiHeroComplex]

wow what an intelligent comment. What a cool story, have you considered writing a book about it?

/s

[olLANDSHARKlo]

Oh boy, let me guess you don't have a 360, only a PS3? Sorry about your luck. It's great being a gamer and not a fanboy.

[TheComedian]

Say goodbye to your bubble for being an obvious troll.You have a PS3?Suuuuuuure...

[AntiHeroComplex]

no i game on PC and PS3... you know the 2 superior platforms. Where you dont have to pay for internet twice like an idiot.

[kasasensei]

lmao

[gcolley]

PC and PS3... you know the 2 elitist platforms.

[WitWolfy]

@antihero dude if you cant afford the hobby take on knitting. It costs you next to nothing too

[Nicaragua]

Well they previously targetted Scientology and the West Borrow Baptist Church and last time i checked both those organisations are still up and running.

Kinda shits on your theory of doom for Sony.

[BABY-JEDI]

@ Phibalnation
I think your PS3 is really a black shoe box LoL
Ps get real. ; )

[boss_killa]

This isn't even going to dent Sony.

Sony will come down with full force and these hackers will regret ever messing with Sony. And it's not just Sony they will have to deal with, as I'm sure the authorities will be working closely with Sony to stop these guys.

Anon will probably help get some stupid ass laws passed that further infringe on people's rights and liberties all because they want to pirate games. Brilliant. /s

[SpaceGhost]

This group can seriously get the fuck out, all they are doing is backing a cause thats even more stupid then what the west burrows curch belives in. The only thing that hackers and exploiters accomplish is getting stricter limitations on products and increase cost for the consumer which is YOU and ME. They are so fucking pathetic that I would rather spend the rest of my life with the West Burrows church then one day with these Parasites and their fucking ``just`` attacks.

[dkgshiz]

Yawn...well that was pretty annoying. PSN being down for 2+ hours. In the end this stunt was nothing more then a annoyance that didn't do shit.

[9thWonder]

I approve of this it just hurts us hackers only do things to benefit themselves and no one else im tired of the BS that they are doing cause in the end i just want to play games and i cant do that if everyone is pirating games or messing with the online aspects of some games or the fact that they are just making thigs bad for other gamers in the world and for what??? stupid petty things

[Psychotica]

Do you know what periods and commas are for? That's one big run on sentence...

[blackburn5]

It's funny when these people do this type of $hit and people desperately find pathetic reasons to defend them. You messed with everyone's PSN to teah SONY a lesson. And somehow this is defended by the internet idiots. I mean really do these guys want me to thank them or something? No problem, come to my house and I will wrap my arms around you and 'thank you' @ PHIBALNATION Sony is a giant multi billion dollar corporation that spans the globe. If you think that a few hackers will 'destroy' them then your deluded and need to get a catscan for your head right away.

[Richard_Hammond]

These guys are just a bunch of attention whores

[gcolley]

sony pulled a lot of dodgy tricks with their lawyers. maybe that is why

of course fanboys will disagree, but they are in a fantasy land where all lawyers aren't scum. this site makes me laugh

[Orionsangel]

People need to stop comparing their car to owning a game system. Your car isn't run by a service or online for that matter. When you buy a car. You own it and you alone. No one else is using your car but you, but other people are using your PS3 in terms of the service on the Internet.

So while you may just wanna add personal things to your PS3 and be able to use particular devices and services. It's not up to you to decide. You bought the system to play games and enjoy whatever Sony offers you.

Any major modification on the PS3 not warranted by Sony will effect the service, as not everyone has good intentions. There's assholes out there that wanna cheat and fuck around with the service. Hackers are opening the door to that. Why is that so hard to understand?

[guitar_nerd_23]

To be honest attacking Sony right now is a bit like going to Japan for some looting as theyre a public company and and the countrys in crisis, what are they trying to prove really? That they're extremely ignorant and childish?

[DanSolo]

While I personally agreed with the whole Anon vs Scientology thing as the fact that society is dumb enough to allow that cult shit to go on speaks volumes to how utterly retarded our way of life has become...

I disagree with the whole "divine right" shit about being allowed to hack things ect ect....
I don't have a problem with hackers, it is just like anything else.... it is about personal responsibility, some will just aim to get the most out of devices, others will abuse their skills to fuck with people and to steal.

Two men can learn to shoot a gun;
One man devotes his life and his skills to protecting people....
The other uses his skill to rob and kill people and act like he has a "divine right" to do what he wants because he can....
And you will always get the people who demonise guns and the people who use them, rather than using some common sense to realise that it is just an inanimate object and that it is the mentality of the person using it that is good or bad.... hacking, like many other things, is no different, it is what the person uses it for that determines if it is good or bad. But if you brand ALL hackers as bad, then they are more likely to defend the idiots amongst them, rather than policing the idiots among them.

But it is somewhat disturbing that some hackers are starting to equate the "anon vs scientology thing and the anon vs sony thing" as the same....
That reeks of self-justification with a hint of Napoleon complex mixed in there.... hopefully the hackers who do not abuse their skills will slap some sense into the ones who are making them all look bad!
And hopefully some of the people who talk shit about they should be killed for doing it ect ect will grow up and stop talking shit and start actually thinking....

[Ace_Man_6]

I 100% agree with this article!

[bigmurph]

These hackers are a bunch of immature idiots just looking for attention!! Sony are not suffering from this its the people who uses their services that will suffer as a result of these stupid kids who are STEALING from SONY. GROW UP RETARDS!!

[DelbertGrady]

Why so serious?

[jrbeerman11]

Love how these hackers can find justification in everything they do. Fooling themselves into thinking what they are doing is not only not wrong, but righteous.

You dont have to be a PS3 fanboy to think these guys are idiots. Not only stealing sony's intellectual property and distributing it, but then getting angry at the consequences. so far they are light consequences at that.

I compare this to someone who unlocks a truckload of games being sent to a distribution center for gamestops, bestbuys, targets etc. If they liberate this truck of a game shipment and randomly ship these games to people who they know/ request on internet, what happens to them?

What they are doing is this same thing only electronically and in a much larger scale. What they are doing is giving everyone ALL games on PS3 for free. essentially stealing from not only sony, but all game makers and publishers that try and make and provide games for us. On top of that, cheaters that go online take away from the consumer that actually spent money on the game, so essentially stealing from buyers and sellers.

At least oldschool thieves and crooks that stole physical property, didnt fool themselves into thinking they were actual morally superior to those they stole from. Well most anyways.

[Ares84]

Other than the mythical Robin Hood to which these idiot morons compare themselves too. They are anothing alike. They are just plain scumbags who not only attack Sony but by doing so the gamers as well. I hope they do relize this.

[SnakeShady]

Psn works just fine for me, fuck GeoNot and his boyfriends.

[DarkSavior]

First of it's Westborough. Second real poor people dont have Internet. Nevermind a ps3. If they do then stfu and buy some food. Why does anyone think their entitled to anything free ?

[Ares84]

These guys are a joke. They attack Sony of all people calling them greedy. Hey idiots, have you ever looked at MS??? Have you ever looked at Activision or EA??? Where were you guys when EA charged us $2.99/car for NFS??? Where were you guys when Activision is charging us $15 for a map pack??? Where were you guys when Bobby Kotic is pissing all over every gamer and makes it clear that he just wants our money and as much of it as possible. Why aren't those people attacked instead of Sony???? Sony is the one who gave us Playstation and tons of games that always pushed the bar and was inovative. Not many companies gave us as much in terms of games as Sony did. Why you idiots believe that you must get things for free??? Nothing is free, everything must be paid because someone worked on it. Sony is greedy??? They give us free stuff all the time. PSN is free to use as well as opposed to other online services and Sony is the greedy one??

Also, what information has Sony blocked again??? The information on how to hack the PS3 to oblivion???? Well shit, I hope that they do that because all you pice of shit lowlife motherfuckers do when you hack your PS3 is ruin online games for us gamers. You fuckface hackers total fucked up COD and it was unplayable for months. Is this what you are fighting for??? Is this your "free speach" that you are referring too??? So how about my freedom of being able to enjoy a hack free online game??? How about my freedom of viewing sony.com and playstation.com??? How about my freedom to sign onto PSN without the fear that some asshole hacker will steal my information from it??? How about my freedom of being comfortable to go online without the fear of hackers taking my information???? How about these freedoms???

You guys are a joke, you aren't fighting for freedom of speach, you are just terrorrists. You keep people from enjoying things they spent their hard earned money on. Fuck you all at Anonymous. I really hope that the FBI will get you all and also hope that you will be jailed for at least 10 years and get raped in the ass 2-3x a day!! The world would be a much better place without you scumbags!

[boss_killa]

Well said.

Let's see these guys hack their way out of a cell.

[Xof]

I get the feeling that no one here knows what "Anonymous" is.

Here's a hint: it's not really Anonymous--it's anonymous.

[hazardman]

No Sony sites work for me, but some people say its working for them. I'm in Boston, is this a regional thing or all over the world?.. I know Im a noob..lol

[Lindsey]

This is hurting both the company and customers. They shouldn't have attacked a company that has over a 100 million fans. BIG MISTAKE!

[Crazyglues]

I mean wow, come on Anonymous your not hurting Sony when you bring down PSN - your just getting me and a whole lot of angry gamers -Really upset.

If you want to hurt Sony why not grab all those dynamic themes and put theme up for free, why not grab Rainbow Six Digital download and give that to every one since it's only on the euro servers..

I mean this route is not really hurting Sony at all, it's just hurting gamers... who just want to play there PS3 without getting in the way of the war..

So doing it this way is just Stupid, Not only does Sony want your head on a silver platter but so does it's consumers...

and that just makes the whole thing an EPIC FAIL..

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[spinbot_lv1]

Stupid anonymous!this is hurting all the gamers community.This is the price for what? for a loser like geohot? for a non existent right to hack IP of a multinational? Who cares!!! I'm not with you! GTFO!

[Killzone3___]

both are wrong , sony sells games and consoles really expensive and give us less freedom in the console which we bought it so it's ours and hackers agree of what i say but they still effict people....

[tosh61]

This posting isn't news. I came to N4G for news. What happened to fall of 2006? When N4G was good? The 10 "Hot" articles right now are almost all about Anonymous. There are needs to be one, the first article.

I'm tired of this messy opinionated website now. The old N4G was better. There needs to be a new set of standards for this website. No more opinion articles, no more rumors, only confirmed news.

[R834]

I know some people may find opinion articles and rumour articles annoying, but I have to say: I certainly didn't expect to see my article at the top of N4G today.

Being from an extremely small site, I didn't expect the article to even make through the approval stage. I mean, who would want to listen to me, a random guy writing for a previously unheard of site?

For whatever reason, this article has become extremely popular. Sorry if you didn't like it.

[leonlion]

Can't they see they're ruining ps3 for everyone?

[Shnazzyone]

Article Quote, "The real losers in all this are the loyal PS3 gaming community."

He's right but not theway he thinks. Obviously the Sony gaming community does not understand what legal precedent is. Sony is absolutely a deserving target right now. Do the Sony gamers understand that if sony is able to charge a gamer for modifying their console, the ramifications that that causes. It's not so much about the simple idea that piracy is bad. This is about having the freedom to do what you want with the technology you buy. If you are smart enough to take the technology you own and make it do more, shouldn't you be able to do it?

Sony doesn't want you to have that freedom. They want to everything in their power to make sure those to experiment with their hardware become criminals. That is why the anonymous movement is targeting them. If the Sony community doesn't get that then it just proves that they are consumer zombies with no minds of their own.

[blakstarz]

As smart as these guys are for pulling off such a feat, they should get off their lazy asses and create their own gaming console that they envision instead of fucking with something they didn't help create.

[TheMutator]

you want freedom? kill yourself

[K1LLSburyPWNboy]

OMG!! I just did some research and I found out Geohot is Bill Gates evil genius bastard son. He's trying to get back on Bill's good side by attacking Sony along with is minions like this. No we finally understand.

[K1LLSburyPWNboy]

We have to stop this madness like Leonidas stopped it in SPARTA!!

[arcticarsenal]

Reading these comments from all you Playstation fans is disgusting. Not only do you not have a brain, you misunderstand where Anonymous is coming from. Do some research as to why they are doing what they are doing instead of ,"ZOMG STOOPID HAXORZ, SONY FTW"

By taking down Geohot, it wasn't a big deal considering he was breaching there EULA, but by attempting to view and obtain the IP address of all those who attempted to hack there PS3's, they crossed the line. Sony's in for a battle with Anonymous, and a rightly deserved one at that.

If this was Microsoft getting DDOS'd and taken down, I'm sure all you PS3 fanboys would attempt to get ahold of the LOIC and help Anonymous out.

[fastNslowww]

Priceless...can't wait for a SWAT team to rade these basement dwelling cocks sucking pindicks.

Ego-fucking-tistical faggots.

yeah..you guys are saviours...creating order and balance in this insane world of ours, thanks god I don't know where your fucking lab or retards live, I'd peal your skins with your moms cocks and feed them to your dads while raping your dogs.

[nilamo]

BUBUUBUUB teh big bad anon attacked teh sony.. Seriously grow up, I doubt even sony cares as much as you do about all this.

[nilamo]

It's quite sad how sony fanboys are so distraught by all of this. I didn't hear them complain when anon attacked all those websites in response to the whole wikileaks affair.

[mixelon]

Maybe they agreed with those attacks? It's not as if they're similar circumstances at all.

[nilamo]

Let me get this straight. A site that publishes national secrets on the internet that affects EVERYONE and is a matter of life and death for some is considered a good deed while a little lone hacker that publishes secret code of an entertainment company is considered bad??

[fastNslowww]

Regarding sony...who cares, This applies to their work in general no matter the subject under attack.

Sony care enough to do what they've done thus far.

it's quite sad you don't see the bigger picture and yeah, you care enough to have replied.

Now shut up and say something creative...

[Mister_G]

Bored now.

Can we please just go back to talking about games???

Even pointless multi-platform pixel by pixel comparisons are better than this rubbish.

[jaizenmonillas]

Sony and Playstation website working fine for me.

[andreasx]

soooo, these hackers are trying to do something good, BUT in the end they are only ruining for everyone else... if you ask me these guys really need to get their heads checked for any concussions.

[mixelon]

This never lasts long fortunately.

This whole issue must have the higher-ups in Anon a bit pissed off.. On one hand they can't assert any sort of leadership/hierarchy so they can't be legally liable or branded as a criminal organisation.. But by the same token, the movers and shakers can't tell any other random kid who wants to use the anon moniker to stop running riot and undermining everything *some* people there have worked for and stood up against.

This sort of shit could really be their undoing. Makes "anonymous" totally useless as a group banner as it's ideologically and morally completely schizophrenic.

[mixelon]

Actually now I think more about it this stuff could more likely help anon.. I mean if all their 'members' flail around in subgroups with different goals it works as a smokescreen for the people who do the big jobs.

It’s a pretty interesting social group. Its hard not to agree with *some* of the things they do occasionally, but a lot of the time i really don't. This being one of them.

[xtremegamerage]

ffs my toes are sore. Anon! enough already.