Quote Originally Posted by Iceglow View Post
No if it's to do with Anonymous it'll be over the George Hotz case.
That case was settled out of court a week or two ago so if they are hacking the PSN over it now then they'd be complete idiots.

in other words, Sony acted like dicks to people who haven't done anything but might have seen the information on how to do it and basically said they were going to sue the outta them all
They never said that at all actually. They claimed they wanted the info to determine which state would have jurisdiction over the case. Not that it wasn't still very sketchy and immoral as far as I'm concerned.

Either way, it came down to the whole idea that Sony basically said you don't actually own your PS3, they do. You're kinda renting it
Make no mistake in thinking it's only Sony that feels this way. You may own the hardware, but every console manufacturer pulls the same software licensing crap (hell, for that matter, every software company pulls it. Do you think you own the OS on that computer you're using? Because Microsoft/Apple would disagree with you. Unless you use Linux, in which case rock on) with the actual software running on the console, and all of them pretty much have the attitude of "you have no right to do anything with the software unless we let you." Thing is, most companies never saw a need to take anyone to court over it. When it's a few individuals cracking their system for their own use and not really causing much of a problem it's not so bad. But basically cracking the PS3's security wide open so anyone could do anything they wanted with it (including, but certainly not limited to, hacking any game out there with impunity) kind of changed that, and while suing over it may have caused Sony even more problems, it's a little hard to blame them for trying to do something to control it. Even though putting that genie back in the bottle is likely impossible and only exacerbates the ill will towards them in the hacking community.