Comments on: Sony gets a slap on the wrist for the 2011 Playstation Network hack

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By: James is a hucklebuck

James is a hucklebuck — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:48:11 +0000

This is so dumb that sony wouldn’t just come to a settlement to avoid media hype. They already have a crap rep and it just gets worse. I don’t know anyone who supports any sony products at all everyone I know owns SAMSUNG LG or Panasonic items in their homes cars or even accessories. Sony needs to shape up they should start with releasing some real ps vita games because everyone I know who bought a vita returned it to buy a tablet or something else

By: eighthdayregret

eighthdayregret — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:43:11 +0000

Agreed. Alot of the people who hack their consoles aren’t trying to be dishonest about it. They just love their little gadgets and want to get the most out of it as possible.
And, of course, the PSN may not always be an option for PSP owners, so those of us who’ve spent a whole crap-load of money on digital releases and DLC want a way to be able to not lose something we’ve paid for.
When the PSN went down and I had to reformat my memory stick, I couldn’t use ANY of the stuff I’d paid for until I learned how useful it was to back up your EBOOTs, licenses, and act.dat and that you really didn’t need the PSN or MediaGo at all once you’d installed your media.
I just kind of wish that Sony knew how much we love these little devices, how little ill will we have toward them, how much we really do want their gadgets to succeed, and the lengths we’re willing to go to get as much out of them as possible.
Everything that’s been done, whether some may disagree or not, boils down to that.
It’s the same reason why all these emulators and ROMs for past gaming systems exist at all: these things are part of our lives (and for some, more important than Sony or anyone could ever realize) and we don’t want to lose them.
All they’d really have to do is look at Prometheus Online or something of the sort with the right set of eyes, and they’d realize that there are alot of people out there who believe in their products more than Sony themselves seem to and are doing everything they can to keep people interested, despite Sony’s best efforts to force us to just call the whole thing a loss and give up.

If Sony fought half as hard for the quality the PSP and Vita deserve, instead of worrying about all this other bullsh*t, both of the systems would have been, and still would be, doing amazingly well.

I mean, they’re so focused on the PS3 and screwing over hackers that they’ve totally forgotten that the PSP has outsold the PS3, even though it’s got virtually no online multiplayer, and receives about 1/100th of the support from developers that the PS3 does.

By: James Way

James Way — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:04:51 +0000

Goood….Gooooood…..Ive been looking into investing in them and if you hit the bottom of the barrel, you can only go up. I don’t see them ever going Sega’s way as they are not just video games, and they are are not just cameras, and they are not just tv or stereos or any one thing, so they’ll bounce back up sooner or later. It’s like Pfizer right back in the 1000s with celebrex and even now with lipitor and a few others. It’s still around.

By: McLoven

McLoven — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:01:58 +0000

lol

By: gunblade

gunblade — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:12:01 +0000

so sum was from spain thats nice

By: gunblade

gunblade — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:09:33 +0000

hopefully or else alot of everyday sony user might get arrested for like downloading n using save games from the internet or sumthing i mean they did have isssues with cheating last i heard …. so on sony end i noticed alot of vita stuff is getting real cheap a back up battery thing cost like almost fity dallers nows its like twenty sumthing even the systhem are getting prety cheap n heard that sony sold like the us building or sumthing so was wandering if sony needed the money or sumthing…

By: Acid_Snake

Acid_Snake — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:49:57 +0000

I agree 100% on this, when apple or nintendo f*cks up, nobody cares, when sony f*cks up people get all assed about it and use it as an excuse to download pirated games on their psps/ps3s. I do hate the fact that sony spends so much money on ridiculous security for the vita but doesn’t for psn, but sony’s not the only company to do stupid things, and it’s actually one of the few companies that give out free stuff as a way of saying “sorry”. When a ps3 gets the ylod, ps3 users start hating on sony, I mean, really? I’ve been in xbox360 forums and most people have had at least 5 xboxs, all having the rrod, and they didn’t seem to care. As for otherOS, yes I hate that they removed it, but nobody used it, it was a feature nobody cared about that was making sony loose money, same as ps2 support, those who really want to play ps2 games on the ps3 will get a BC ps3, those who don’t care will get a normal ps3, at least sony gave us that opportunity, I’ve never seen microsoft allowing us to install another OS

By: Rijndael

Rijndael — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:25:19 +0000

I didn’t knew the crackers were arrested, thanks for the link.
And if the bank where i have my money gets robbed, id want my money back since im paying for it, i wouldnt really care for what happen to the bank itself, but obviously, i wouldnt trust them again.
If someone robs my house, and the police tell me its my fault and i need to pay a fine because my door was easy to open, id want to punch them on the face.
Anyways, our points of sight are very different and this is going nowhere, i respect yours but i dont agree.

By: wololo

wololo — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:20:01 +0000

Err, the hackers have been arrested a while ago, at least some of them ( http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/3-alleged-playstation-network-hackers-arrested-in-spain/25498 ). So this is not about that, this is about punishing *all* the people responsible for this issue.
Think about it another way. If you were putting your money into a bank, and that bank got robbed, wouldn’t you be expecting some form of penalty to be sent to the bank (in addition to the robbers being arrested, *of course*) if it was proven that they had made an obvious mistake, such as leaving a window open?

By: Rijndael

Rijndael — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:06:15 +0000

Honestly, you think what they are doing is fine?
Im not protecting sony, i heard they had all the passwords on a txt file and thats fucked up.
But again, is stupid to punish the victim, even if you say they are not the victim here, a cracker took their security down and stole private info, they lost millions for it.
Another thing is, something like that happened to microsoft a while ago… they did something about it? NO
Again, this is just stupid, the uk government should spend the time looking for the crackers instead of doing this kind of things.

By: wololo

wololo — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:18:22 +0000

Well, hopefully Sony makes a strong difference between customers who hack their own console, and thieves who break into Sony’s network…

By: eighthdayregret

eighthdayregret — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:50:15 +0000

I think everyone should actually be a little relived that Sony only got what amounts to a slap on the wrist.
Think about it this way: if they’d been sentenced to a gawdawful amount, who do you think they’d start coming after?

The more heat Sony gets for what happened due to people hacking their consoles, the more heat Sony’s gonna put ON THE PEOPLE HACKING THEIR CONSOLES.

Be glad the penalty wasn’t stiffer…
Not that Sony won’t blow this completely outta proportion.

By: wololo

wololo — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:43:10 +0000

First, your metaphor is way out of proportion.

Second, the victim here is not Sony, the victims are the 77 million customers that got their information stolen. Part of the price you pay when you use the Playstation Network involves security. A company can’t promise they will never get hacked, but there is an implicit guarantee that Sony will do “their best” to protect your information (a bit like a doctor guarantees they will do their best to treat you when you are sick, but cannot guarantee they will actually fix you).
That definition of “doing their best” is protected by the law in some countries (e.g. the Data act I mention above for the UK), and experts estimate that Sony didn’t do “their best” at the time to protect their customers’ information, hence the fine.

By: Rijndael

Rijndael — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:05:30 +0000

So if a motherfucker rapes my daughter the government will take her to jail cause she didnt prevent it?

The uk government should put efforts to caught the hackers instead of doing this kind of shit.

And im not a fanboy, i dont give a fuck about companies, but punish the victim is not just unfair, is stupid.