Anonymous Halts Sony Attacks Affecting PSN Users
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I say go for it Anon, a lot of people get to upper positions in these companies and believe that they are untouchable. Show them that in the real world putting your "penis in the hive" is a bad idea.
Although, I will maintain that the attack was premature and should've waited to see the actual outcome of the trial in question. If they waited now it would be cool, but kinda impossible as it would look like they're bitching out.
"Failing to plan is planning to fail" kinda fits anon right now.
Although, I will maintain that the attack was premature and should've waited to see the actual outcome of the trial in question. If they waited now it would be cool, but kinda impossible as it would look like they're bitching out.
"Failing to plan is planning to fail" kinda fits anon right now.
Soooooo George Washington, Joan D'Arc and Oliver Cromwell where all terrorists?Sarge034 said:
Damn well I guess I have to hate them all now.
Anonymous apologising for something!?!?!?
Excuse me why I go and keep an eye out for Death, War, Pestilence and Famine.
Ask the average Irishman what they think of Oliver Cromwell and they'll most likely tell you that not only was he a "terrorist," he was a genocidal fuck-wad.Joe Deadman said:
As for Joan of Arc, she has an insanity defense -- as does everyone else who claims that God speaks directly to them.
See there. Yet more common ground betwixt us: a mutual appreciation of a good laugh out loud.Emergent said:
And don't take your inability to outsmart me on legal matters as any negative reflection on yourself. No more than the fact that Manny Pacquiao will knock you out in :30 of the first round if you were foolish enough to get in a ring with him would reflect negatively on you. He's a pro, you're a rank amateur. That you'd end up on your back was simply a foregone conclusion.
Because Sony's been a huge douchenozzle lately. The GeoHot thing has caused Sony to turn into digital Nazi's.arc1991 said:
Microsoft doesn't care if people hack their products. Just looking on this site you'll be able to seehow many people have hacked the Kinect to do other things.
Do the Kinect hacks allow you to play pirated games? If they don't, then you've got an apple in one of your hands and an orange in the other. And I'm willing to bet that if a Kinect hack could advance the possibility of playing pirated games, as does Georgie Boy's PS3 hack, Microsoft would be quick to do something to nix that possibility.VanityGirl said:
Wasn't it Microsoft that took steps to block unlicensed peripherals from the 360?
And he we reach our problem. The most well known PS3 hacker doesn't pirate games. He doesn't condone piracy either. GeoHotz attacks could lead to piracy, but that does not mean that everyone will use it to pirate game. If GeoHotz said, "Hey guys, I'm going to do this so you all can pirate gamas" then it would be a different story.JDKJ said:
*shrug*
Hotz can claim he doesn't pirate games. He can also claim he doesn't condone piracy. Good for him. But he's still left with the fact that 5,700 unique IP addresses in the State of California alone visited his website and downloaded his file with information and instructions on how to hack a PS3 and enable it to both run Linux and play pirated games. He can swear on a six-foot high stack of Bibles that he published his hack file only to allow others to run Linux but no sane person's gonna buy the possibility that there were all of 5,700 persons in the State of California alone who were interested in running Linux on their PS3s. And no sane person's gonna buy the possibility that ol' Georgie Boy didn't know that the vast majority of those 5,700 persons in California who were downloading his hack file were doing so in order to hack their PS3s in order to play pirated games rather than to run Linux. That story simply isn't credible. Hotz doesn't have to -- and no one should really expect him to -- admit that he knew full well that what he was doing was furthering piracy. But the fact still remains that there are 5,700 reasons to conclude that he was furthering piracy. And if the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that he was furthering piracy, then -- to put it in fancy legal terms -- he's fucked.VanityGirl said:
And he's fucked in a very real sense because he'll be liable for contributory infringement (i.e., facilitating the infringement by others of a copyrighted work), the minimum penalty for which is $250 per instance of infringement and, if we charitably subtract from the 5,700 downloaders 1,000 downloaders on the assumption that those 1,000 downloaders were in fact persons who were interested in running Linux and not interested in pirating games, and then multiple the remaining 4,700 downloaders by the $250 minimum penalty, on the assumption that those downloaders were interested in playing pirated games and had no interest in running Linux and did in fact use the download to play pirated games, ol' Georgie Boy's looking at more than $1,000,000 in penalties. Ouch! And that calculation is based on the possible infringers in California alone, it doesn't include possible infringers in the other 49 states. But I'm sure that if Georgie Boy looks under his sofa cushions, he'll find more than enough loose change to cover his multi-million dollar penalties.