Anonymous Attacks PlayStation Network, Sony Says Service Will Be in Maintenance

sharing purchased downloads is like stealing.The only privacy we have is from other gamers and that our personal info wont be sold to spammers.Playstation however has the right to protect themselves from such thefts those people should feel lucky no criminal charges have been pressed.Play station has only grounded them from playing online for a set number of days I find this resonable and less then a slap on the hand.Anonymous defends criminals i guess so what does that say about them.PSN handle LOC-_-

Annonymous is not defending a criminal, they are attacking a corporate entity that overstepped their boundaries in filing suit against george hotz for enabling homebrew on his own ps3 and showing others how to do so. His work may have potentially opened the door for hackers and pirates, but thus was not his intention. Just as the government's laws while not intended to step on our freedoms do so everyday. For you to call him a criminal when sony removed a feature that many purchased their playstations solely for is just ironic. Sony should have been sued for this long ago as they removed an advertised and purchased feature from a product that we rightly own. Hotz was fully within his rights to alter his own legally acquired property. I may not agree with Annonymous's method or the fact I can't play online atm, but I fully support them that something needs to be done about Sony corporation.

^ Definitely hit the nail on the head there, man.

sorry but sony must pay for their actions we dont forgive or forget Expect us.

@annonymous junior, if ur gonna get at Sony then mess with tha corporation not us ppl who jus enjoy online gaming u as* holes, get a life

you call yourself an Anon but yet you are getting yourself involved in something that has nothing to do with Anonymous. have you ever thought about your actions as a whole group before doing it. the consequences are usually severe when Anonymous gets involved. I'm not taking a side but let Sony deal with people their own way. Don't get involved in conflicts anymore.

The fact of the matter is that what Anon did is self-riteous and hypocritical... protect this george guy? quite frankly i dont realy care... if he opened the door for hackers than FUG HIM... but to take down the one part of SONY that it DOESNT CHARGE THE PUBLIC TO USE is rediculous. they may have tweeked sony but all they've really accomplished is hurting the public who just wants to play online. Its hypocritical... they arent heros.

Though I understand what he was trying to do I don't fully agree with his methods, it's not really hurting Sony though it is messing with them it's more so hurting the public who use online gaming daily. -__-

Yes alot of gamers are ticked off that the multi-player is down. But haven't you guys thought that the hacker deserves it. Afterall he is ruining gaming now for the rest of us. But Anonymous has no right getting involved in something that shouldn't concern them. I bet alot of the Anonymous people have a PS3 of their own, probably the rest could have a Xbox 360. I am friends with an Anon named Wiggles, he's really nice. But Anonymous should think about what their actions are doing before they do it. oh and they should also think about the consequences as well.

They have a grudge with sony, yeah we get it, but attacking PSN is affecting thousands of people! Just STOP what your doing and leave sony alone!!

Give them what they want i wanna play COD

ight, its fked up that beacuse of a few mfs that millionz of ppl hav to suffer, ALREADY 5 DAYS WTF!!

when it goes bak on, if anyone wanna add me, my acct TUPAC_TOM_4-LIFE

This was a good idea. I got a good friend who loves playstation. He needed a break. rofl!!!! xD jk

SONY is losing customers this is bad!!! O.O I already know a bunch of people selling their playstation 3

i think that anonymous are being fair they only want sony ps3 to restore the ps3 back to the last version and if sony decline the threat they will be hit worse because anonymous do not forgive and do not forget.

These hackers have got to be idiots of the biggest scale.
You can't expect to run home brew software on a consol the you bought to run paid for games or on a free public / gaming network.
If you think you have the right to run your own software then it would have to be on your own network with a consol that's not designed to run copy right games or games paid for by credit cards or bank details. There would be to many people running software to still that kind of data.
Sony have have every right to stop this. The consol they provide is strictly for prepaid games with secure features to buy more games and play on their gaming network. This is what you buy into when purchasing their consol.
You can't justify any reason for hacking that consol and it's security features.

Anon reminds me of the nazis, the folowers are so blinded.

If u wana mod ur ps3, its perfectly fine, sony wont stop you. however, if u use it on their network, u get in trouble. u dont have to except the terms a conditions nubs. U also didnt need to accept the update to remove other OS.