Current PSN outage: Don't abuse or we lose this thread.
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We already did (back when they worked - you've copied the link redirect text and not the link for each). They're sensationalist tripe.
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- jjaisli
According to Sony, http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110415_e.html they've sold just over 50,000,000 PS3s worldwide. However, just to clarify, the 77 million figure has nothing to do with the number of consoles sold. That's the number of PSN accounts which were compromised. Consider that some people have multiple accounts or there are multiple accounts per family. And there are others, believe it or not, who never sign up for the PSN and never take their PS3 online. There's no direct correlation between the number of PS3s sold and the number of users compromised.
I'm not happy about it either. So of more importance to me than the Playstation Plus access is the year of free identity theft protection Sony is offering. While this doesn't absolve them of any liability for what happened or may not prevent any current illicit activity taking place right now, it's certainly a step in the right direction and I think it was a smart move to offer this. Strange that you missed this link: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/05/sony-to-offer-psn-users-free-identity-theft-protection-for-one-y/
If you've been following this thread, than you've no doubt already seen that point A is patently false, point B is misleading and not factually accurate either. And point C is at least debatable.
As for the whole thing being a big conspiracy by big Japanese corporations and the Japanese government, I won't even comment.
I was trying my hand at being overly sensationalism, too.
To be honest, I've lost track of why the PSN is down at this point.
People were mad at Sony because Sony disabled the OtherOS feature.
People were mad at Sony because Sony tried to stop Geohot from broadcasting some sort of universal PS3 security passcode key all over the internet.
People were mad at Sony because Sony put rootkits on CDs.
People were mad at Sony because someone they know owned a Sony product (tv/walkman/camera/whatever) that stopped working 1 month after the warranty expired.
People were mad at Sony because they saw a movie that wasn't that good, and wasted all that money for the full movie theater ticket prices and bought popcorn and everything. Sony was mentioned somewhere in the credits, and the pop was flat, too.
One day, a bunch of these mad people got together and decided to bombard the Sony PSN servers with half-open connection requests and the like to the point where the servers stopped working.
A lot of people who weren't involved with the bombardment wanted to play their video games online and couldn't because the PSN servers stopped working (see above), so they got mad at the people who were more mad at Sony than they.
The first group of people stopped their attack on the PSN servers out of the kindness of their hearts and went on to harassing Sony's executives, allowing everyone to enjoy their online gaming again.
A couple of weeks later, somebody sent some funky custom requests to the databases on Sony's PSN servers (and apparently some other servers related to online gaming) and the servers responded by telling this person everything it knew. Since 'everything it knew' includes all of Sony's customers personal information and credit card number hashes more people got mad at Sony (and/or people got more mad at Sony).
Sony doesn't want just anyone to be able to go into their servers and access everyone else's data so they took their servers off the internet and they are still trying to fix it so that doesn't happen anymore.
Watching free porn on your TV is just one of the three or so reasons people were mad about the first point.
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And there is still the anti-Sony rhetoric going on...
People - if you truly hate Sony that much then cast your vote the "right" way...take your business elsewhere! Purchase another product! If anything, your claims/allegations/complaints possibly help Sony if you subscribe to the "no press is bad press" school of thought.
People - if you truly hate Sony that much then cast your vote the "right" way...take your business elsewhere! Purchase another product! If anything, your claims/allegations/complaints possibly help Sony if you subscribe to the "no press is bad press" school of thought.
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All of Sony is still down, even today. Grr I want to play my Everquest...
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Oh I see PSN is still down. Or I'm guessing from the angry long posts 
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Patience is a virtue that seems like only about 1% of gamers can obtain
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Very true. I think 3 weeks without even online matchmaking being restored is enough to try anyone's patience a little. Some people like to preach to others, which I don't think helps. That's just the world I suppose, there's always some high and mighty #$%$ out there.
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I didnt miss the link, I just didnt see it viable as It's an often misconception that fraudsters drain a CC account in the same year that the data was stolen, More that they ( Apparently ) wait for a number of years before starting to milk the account for all its worth.
I haven't really exactly read through 70+ pages of this so I can't comment lol
A conspiracy theory is always interesting, Though unlikely.
Currently, We are all speculating as to why they got taken down so quickly and "Easily" and of course IF the corresponding reports are true that out of date software and unencrypted data were being implemented, then this is a huge punch in the guts to all of Sony's customers worldwide.
Agree'd, I'm not angry about PSN going down, In fact It's given me more time to get some of my Steam Achievements done on AVP 2010 and learn about bump mapping in order to modify the skins to be more... creepy? ( I'm still learning Pfft )
Anyway, Only thing thats ticking me off in all honesty is The length of downtime preventing my bobs from making me some hard cash aswell as enjoying some long races on multiplayer, Like when I hosted a RM 4 hour race on Nurburgring Nordschleife, I missed them race sessions I ran where the race would start at dusk, go through the night and back to dawn where the race would finish.
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Isn't there a trophy for that?
Scaff
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Start the LOLocaust. Out an Anon for cash and prizes.
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I would have hoped by now they would have given us some type of timeline. However, I think by them saying nothing, nothing will happen this weekend. Depending on where you are, there is less than 24 hours till the weekend. It isn't looking too good.
