Welcome to another edition of A Sense of Perspective With Old Manus! Today, we'll be discussing the recent closure of PSN by Sony, the culprits, and the winners and losers in this whole sorry affair.

Firstly, this wasn't Anonymous, but at the same time, could well have involved somebody who frequents /b/ and /v/. A group of homebrew crackers made a bit of custom firmware that essentially managed to bypass any credit card authentication process when buying media from PSN (the words getting bandied about are 'like a developer's console'), so these people would just put in a bunch of fake CC numbers, and harvest the movies and games.

Sony realise this, and decide that the best course of action to stop this horrendous misuse of their servers by a few dozen buff bods was to shut down the thing entirely, and block millions of their users. The long wait is due to them sitting around director's offices passing the buck around until Kenny the copy boy is sacked, and thinking of a way to totally rejig the system.

So really, it's Sony's fault for having the main apparatus of their network system relying on local firmware which can be manipulated by anyone with half a brain. Nice of you all to jump to blaming a load of fifteen year old hentai collectors though.

Next week, we'll discuss Swansea's promotion to the Premier League, Carlos Tevez/Anthony Keidis - seperated at birth?, and just why five razorblades cannot possibly give a less irritating shave, no matter what Gilette says.