LastGreatBlasphemer said:
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I don't see the relevance of this statement. It's supposed to be harder to DDOS Sony? Please elaborate, you've lost me on this one.
Ok Ill elaborate this one.
A website costs money to keep up and running, especially when high traffic is involved.
Yes it costs money to keep a website up and running, but a company like sony runs their own independent servers, so they are not going to charge themselves more to run their own servers just because of failing to meet traffic spikes. Sonys servers cost them the same to own/operate if they are up and running at 100% capacity or completely offline. So being overran by LOIC zombies has no actual bearing financially.
Beyond that... Despite how people think, the internet is not a physical place. Trying to apply logic of the physical world does not always work in the digital. The issue is far more complex than protesters and picket lines, or stay off my lawn. Thats why you cant simply apply physical world charges to the realm of the digital because it is not the same thing.
If we need anything, what we need is something to put a stop to the shenanigans that prompted the formation of lulzsec. Lulzsec didnt just form literally just for the lulz. It formed as a direct consequence of Sony's actions. You treat the cause, not the effect and most of what prompted lulzsec to do what they did all circles back to what Sony tried to pull with the PS3 jailbreak and their detailed chorus line of sphincterocity that followed. Had Sony not been allowed to continue litigation and laughed out of court like the should have been given the already recently concluded jailbreaking precedent, you would have never seen lulzsec at all.
On the rest of the dissection, youve stated your opinion, ive stated mine, it would be repetitive to continue to speak on it.