Yesterday, Sony purposefully shut down its own Playstation Network servers to save itself billions in operating costs. This move was shrouded with rumors that Anonymous has yet again resorted to the unpopular DDoS attacks that led to the failed “boycott” of Sony products on April 16th. Sony, as always, has made a meaningless and vague statement about their network status in an attempt to counter any blame.
Despite their own miserable failure with Sony, Anonymous has not even had time to come up with a new strategy. In fact, Anonymous has entirely lost interest in wasting their time on Sony. Playstation 3 owners have reactivated their violent urges which are at a steady boiling point without Call of Duty: Black Ops. The last bastion of truly free press, AnonNews.org, has been under sporadic DDoS attacks that may have originated from “Sonyfags” or the Playstation Network itself.
Now with a scapegoat for all future network outages, Sony is free to mistreat their own user base without discretion. Sony currently has a plan in the works to create paid Playstation “Gold” accounts that will not suffer from network outages which disable completely unrelated services such as Netflix and Skype. This strategy is consistent with Reddit’s current “downtime” that allows only paid Reddit “Gold” accounts the ability to log in.
Free information and net neutrality is dying at the altar of Anonymous, as I have predicted. Public opinion is being manipulated by the global oligarchs who control multi-national corporations like Sony. The people are being whipped into a hate-storm that can only end with mass vannings of the Anonymous collective.
UPDATE: Sony has admitted that the database of personal information on PSN has been compromised. Anonymous sides with the users of PSN in filing a class action lawsuit against the incompetence of Sony!
JOEY you must be retarted, you must not undermean. ANONYMOUS, they are one, they are you and me, they are you neighbours. we are info seakers and control our own lives.
lol this site is run by anonymous, but now i cant even tell you what that means. i feel like this all goes nowhere but it accomplishes it in a way that takes it somewhere it gives some meaning to the overall lack of meaning. does that make sense or no?
yes its does in a way, u must go on?
no it doesnt dumb ass. it makes no sense. im fucking confused. you remember that “i think therefore i am” shit? for a year now i feel more like “i am…i am what?” there are no right answers.
how do you know? are you even the real geo hots and if so, why would you be wasting your time on here chating with random poeple
what have i learned today? i need to stop reading hawking and start reading Vonnegut. thanks kilgore
Start with Cat’s Cradle or Sirens of Titan. Or anything you can get your hands on.
#Pseudonymous the wise
alright whick one of u guys r involved geohots or anonymous
FUCK YOU JOEY IT WAS NOT ME!
this sucks really bad
damn april 24 so fucking long fuck hacker and fuck xbox
FIX THE PROBLEM ALREADY people. if they didnt want to affect the customers they should have thought about that when they started intruding. sony is gay, they are liars and cheats. makkeing us pay for exxxxxtra map macks that they already had made before black opps came out, they just waited 3 months to release them, and now they got another may 3rd or some shit. wtf fuck sony. but still not allowing us to play is dangerous to them, for all the hactivists
Somebody told us that PlayStation Network is FREE. NOT, it is NOT! Why? Because when you buy a PS3 or a Game, you pay for it, you pay to have it “free”.
Another thing that come in place is the INCOMPETENCY: it doesn’t matter that were the hackers or not, the site is down and “the maintenance” wasn’t announced.
An the last thing is FREEDOM: I want to be free to even buy the latest game through Internet – can I ? No, because the big companies now still your money in levels: New Games in the shop, Not so new Games in the paid subscriptions and Old or Stupid games and Access through the “free” Internet subscription (like the PSN). Also the DLS business. I just bought a Need For Speed for my son…and I realized that I have to spend more money if I want the complete game (they fool us that they made these DLC later… but they are only isolated and hidden in the most of the games in order to pay more for the game). This is the World we living in… and we are all participants.
we get it free doesnt always free and you sir, cannot spell
I’m not an English native and I stayed 30 minutes to understand your reply. I’m an educated man and maybe I have some problems with the English topics, sorry. But like many people I saw, they are more concentrated to my English level, than having a constructive discussion, to see how we can move the society. For me, no mater you are or do, you are not a God, me neither. We are people who need to communicate in order to make something.
there is no good fool, educate yourself
fail i spelled god wrong. there is no god*******
I think we accomplished something today – I only lost some time, trying to understand if you are “better” than the others (companies, etc). NOT, you are NOT. Sorry. Do you really think that the entire posts here do something good, positive? I feeling like I see every day the “zombies” in the metro with their mighty iPhone that “educate” you.
Maybe is because my age (41) …and I’m not so flexible, like you. God, bless you (even if I’m not a believer).
lol i think you probably perceive the world, life, etc. in a very different way than most people. i respect that. i do as well. there is no god though. im sorry. i wish there was
..they say so…that’s why I was fired from my last job: I was different from the others, even if it was in a positive way for the company. 10x for the respect, I like to think that I respect you, even if I tented to criticize you. Maybe will communicate some day, here my day is over.
@me nobody knows what to beleive and nobody can tell you what to beleive, but i will leave you with a quote from thomas jefferson “Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear” or how bout this one “Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
why not target gas companys instead they gauge like crazy
fkn bitches shut up in get a life wat did u do b4 ps3 or u dnt have friends either way gent bent
this is tottally boring geohots, good that your standing up for your self and wont back down, but clearly you didnt have ne thing to do with this shut down, so why bother ever post online about it, unless….I’d support anonymous, if it wasent for groups like these, out PS3 wouldnt be safe ever, atleast we know people are working on tryin to make them more sucure , due to the problems that have occurd in the last 2 weeks, press on geohots, and chokolo! will be free!
Public opinion is being manipulated by the global oligarchs who control multi-national corporations like Sony. The people are being whipped into a hate-storm that can only end with mass vannings of the Anonymous collective.
fuckin ANONIMOUS you are a BIG STUPID AN BIG SHIT YOU BANED PSN FUCKIN CRAZY YOU MHOTER HAVE A BIG BUTTS U YOU ARE A FUCKIN ILUMINATI OR WHAT?
Turrets guy
Sony offered me a job!
Fuck you, this is all your fault to begin with.
Bitch lick my ballzzzzzzzzz im gettin paid, all these other anonymous arent gettin laid im not about to fade its a new age and bitch im the sage. and the motherfucking CEO
Are you serious? Sony should offer you a job thats the only way to balance this bullshit out. I think any one that can hack a place should be given a job in that company’s IT SECURITY to make this into something good. hackers are fuckin smart. Haxkr r hot.
oh and david grohl killed kurt cobain
I just figured it out. George Bush had Bill Hicks killed. Bush is a whiny young republican daddys boy coke head alcoholic who signed over 100 bills in 1 day (he liked signing bills knowing as little about them as possible), because instead of reading them throughout the year he hid them in his desk whilst doing lines with bin laden. Bush didnt like the criticism he was receiving from Hicks, so he cried to daddy and got something done. The Bush family and everyone like them has been a liver cancer to this country for to long. thats why i like seeing obama start to get angry. im angry. my friends are angry.
To the people who are supporting the hackers. What will happen when all good game developers will stop making games cause of piracy? And they will take more advantage of you people who buy their games with their own hard earned cash to get that little bit of entertainment. Can these hackers ever really create anything ? absolutely not. They won’t be able to make no God of war 3 or MGS4 or anything at all. You guys are just looking at the small picture. In the end it will be you who lose out not the Corporations and not the stupid hackers. just wait and see. I just fucking hate the hackers.
Just like how piracy stopped the music industry right? Piracy exists in the music industry; it’s flourishing, the gaming industry will not yield because like below 1% of their userbase pirates a game, if you’re gonna pirate a gaming chances are you are unable to buy games easily, or you weren’t gonna buy it in the first place.
Education Time:
In fact the hackers just want more features on their PS3. The PS3 has been out for years and it can’t do half the things the XBox 360 can, hell, there are much more better games on the Xbox 360, such as: Dodonpachi, Mushihimesama, Death Smiles or any CAVE shmup, EVERY RPG worth mentioning this gen regardless of them being shafted on the 360 and that is just the Japanese advantages, I won’t even begin on the better multiplatform western games such as Mass Effect1. The 360 has cross game chat, you can install games on the hard drive,in game custom sound track(I believe), you have Xbox live party chat, the dashboard interface undergoes regular changes (or at least more regularly than the XMB), I can go on. Hell thanks to the hackers MY PSP has in game custom soundtrack, my PSP can install full games, my PSP’s interface can change.
Sadly I’m not even a 360 fanboy I’ve had PS1, PS2 and 2 PSPs(still working to this day), 3 PS3′s (2 of them can’t read Blurays, so low failure rate my ass as far as I’m concerned PS3 has a 66% failure rate), never owned 1 XBox or 360. In fact, attacking the hackers is dumb, this is how you can tell you’re getting the shaft…head…the whole 9, this has never happened to XBox live.
Also how is Piracy even an a rebuttal for game quality dwindling? DS has great sales hardware and software, it had piracy from day 1; EVEN 3DS HAD DAY 1 PIRACY and that is selling faster than IQ207 smart pills. PSP failed because they focused on hardware over software and in the end stopped supporting the hardware. Same with the PS3, in fact the only reason Sony has not gone under as a gaming company is because of 3 things: Developer curiosity, free online gaming, and Japan’s Xenophobic attitude towards game consoles.
You know what is the worst part about all of this for people in my situation ( in countries where there is duty/ import tax on electronics but not computers) that was a loop hole for me to get my PS3′s at a reasonable price, I spent 500 on 2 launch PS3′s (due to sony not covering repairs in my region), and 1000 dollars on a 2010 Phat model. All of this because geohot made a 3.21 spoofer, that required soldering; if someone is gonna solder to hack your hardware that requires some serious dedication something a common user would lack for a 300-600 dollar console, which could’ve easily been patched and found, just like they are doing with CFW users such as myself.
TL;DR
Hackers haven’t done anything wrong. Hackers are hackers, pirates are pirates (and practically everyone pirates music). Sony needs to support their devices better. Don’t use piracy as a scapegoat for bad games.
and ON TOPIC: Anonymous is fail.
A veery well worded, clear and concise argument =]. I fully agree with everything you say apart from the remark about ‘Anonymous is fail’, this was just a badly organized attack which failed. Anonymous is tying to help but sometimes it just doesn’t think very hard about it first =\
The argument that piracy exists in music so it is ok that it exists in Video Games is terrible at best. You pirate a song, theoretically the artist loses 0.99, not a big deal. But the artist still can make money off of perhaps the pirate actually buying the full album, or the pirate going to the concert of the artist. There is still a market for the artist. When pirating a game there is no additional payoff, a pirate isn’t going to buy a game after pirating it, a pirate is not going to go to a concert. After a game is pirated, it is game over. That is 50-60$ in lost revenue, well more than that if they play it on the corporate servers.
Comparing Gaming piracy to Music piracy is terrible at best.
We are looking at the small picture??? Lol! A msg from a real gamer to you: I Woul rather no more games at all than to become a slave for big corporations. Merely a shadow eaten by the. World, living a life without yourself. Maybe you need games so blindly desperate like this because that is the only sparkle of life you may get. Only time you can be a “hero” or make a difference is inside this scripted universe – a game. “every men dies. Not every men lives” – braveheart. Don’t take as an insult, but think about it… Think in this situation as a game, if you preffer
and you are the man character in a world of a society that forgot how to live a long time ago. Fragiles by their lack of will, they become mere puppets to the hands of greedy corps losing their soul and their very own identity. Or if you rather, plain and simple, history, ancient Rome: tiranny forgotten by people because the tirants would give “bread and circus”.
you sir, are a pessimist.
Realistic I would say
he calls himself a real game then immediately goes on to state how he wont be a slave to corporations or a shadow. your nothing your consciousness is a quantum reaction of energy particles your perceptions are lies your life is meaningless
Only people that need to get laid around here is the Anons, with too much time on thier hands, fucking around with what other hard working people paid for…. [edited]
AnonNews is down. Looks like more Internet terrorist are stepping in.
My full support to anonymous!!!! You guys got tears in my eyes!!! Good to know that there is still people out there who are not blind fool and actually have guts to do stuff!! Congratulations ANONYMOUS ! hope these comments from slaves of the system don’t put you down! You guys are indeed the sparkle in the darkness, the hope in such a putrid world. Thanks for being a voice for us all!
You are fucking clueless
Dumbass.
No shit, Sony DID shut down PSN on 04/20.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/22/update-on-playstation-network-qriocity-services/
OP, I added you to my blogroll of anti-anonymous blogs. Hope you don’t mind.
This is sweet, but so very misguided
Lol i hear ya now the little nerds can see what its like to get laid. LOL
shut the fuck up i like to see u get laid chesse ur a fag go fuck ur mom
PSN WILL NOT BE ON EVER EVER AGAIN. SO NOW YOU STUPID LITTLE SHITS CAN NOW GET LAID. LMFAO
SO IF YOU WANT TO CAUSE HARM TO SONY WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO USERS, YOU ALL SHOULD HACK THE PLAYSTATION STORE AND LET ALL FREE, IT WILL BE OK
SI TANTO QUIEREN CAUSARLE DAÑO A SONY SIN PERJUDICAR A LOS USUARIOS DEBERIAN DE HACKEAR LA PLAYSTATION STORE Y DEJAR TODO GRATIS, ESO A LOS USUARIOS NO NOS MELESTARIA JEJE
anonimous envidioso puerco
anonimous envidioso puerco como no eres famoso pues haces eso me imagino q eres sendo bobo de frente pero alo lejos te echas guille sangano
When the PSN is up, we will strike.. but not against PSN, playing online is 2 much fun
anonimous me hackea la polla
You guys just wait
black ops is fucking fun
I wholeheartedly fucking agree!!!
Anonymous can suck my dick.
It seems like its an attack. they didnt just shut down psn they shut down everquest, dc universe, everything. The fact that its been down for more than 24 hours going on 2 days with no announcement does not give me hope. Sony does not “surprise” their customers with ANYTHING good or bad. If playstation comes back online with a new security update you’ll know its an attack. Especially if theres no announcement pertaining to it afterward.All of this pending on the event that they dont lie to us, i.e. heres you new dlc! lol
Sorry anonymous, but when you’re gonna go around pulling your V For Vendetta bullshit on everyone, expect to be blamed for it all, as you scumbags deserve. Wipe away your Doritos crumbs and enjoy some sunlight, basement dwellers.
[...] Anonymous appears to be denying participation in any attack on PSN. A representative of the group posted an editorial to a news aggregation site saying it had no time to devise a new strategy against Sony and “entirely lost [...]
hell yeh fuck black ops , bad company 2 come on people fight for something worth fighting for !
i fight for the United States of America… but im not in Afghanistan right now so how bout you let me have my fucking black ops back
Well only an idiot would say there saving money as a result of shutting down there own servers.
They lose money when nobody can buy anything.DUH.
If it were a matter of saving money,why not do it on a weekly basis?
Just so you know anonymous has claimed responsibility.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_DJwSAg2gM&feature=related
By the way its old,old news that sony was intending to charge people to play online so your not announcing anything that people already knew.
You want to pick a fight.What about those big bank and goverments that have an agenda against the Union movement?
You witnessed the largest union busting in history when auto makers said they were broke and the workers need to make concessions.JOKE.
These so called hackers do nothing about this.
they’re saving alot of money. ALOT. playing on PSN is free, do you think they maintain the huge network and all of the servers for free? it probably hemorrhages money for sony to keep the PS3 network up. with only a few days downtime, it however, will not prevent users from buying games and ps3s, benfiting their company. maybe in the case of xbox it would make them lose money to have their network shut down, but with a free network like PSN, having it shut down for a few days saves a huge amount of money.
lol dave, if you listen to the video anonymous have not claimed responsility. “this is why anons all over the world are currently attacking sony, and not its PSN login servers” (1:34)
Not sure if stupid or really stupid…
1. In that video THE INDIVIDUAL who made it said that Anonymous wasn’t attacking PSN.
2. One individual cannot represent Anonymous, speaking under the name of Anonymous doesn’t mean a single Anon speaks for all Anons.
3. Have you actually paused to think (ever?) that Sony might be doing this to save money AND discredit their two most recent enemies: Anonymous and hackers like GeoHot?
Just curious =]
ember your dumb to if you think sony wants to save a buck. did you ever think sony doesn’t give two shits about anonymous, they are making WAY to much many to care. if this attack was done ‘anonymous’ly it was fool-hearted and ill-conceived. if these hackers are as good as they and sony claim they are i want to see this hacking done on a new scale. im glad the psn is down though, video games have become baby-sitters for lazy parents. maybe a kid that would normally be playing black ops today will instead pick up a richard dawkins book or watch some bill hicks…something informative
Loving the name and loving the grammar there buddy.
I am merely playing the devils advocate and theorizing, its something I enjoy. You seem to enjoy reveling in your own self superiority and your view of inferiority in other people. If you want to seem superior, you’re going to have to concentrate more on your grammar and your terminology. Many of the terms you used in that paragraph were out of place and others made little to no sense.
This is likely to just be a problem on Sony’s end but to of set the blame against a recent enemy they blame Anonymous. However I like to theorise more interesting possibilities to amuse myself. I enjoy debates =]
You’re final point is a good one though, ‘The God Delusion’ would be far more educational than camping in Black Ops… Hell, reading the instructions for the washing machine would be more constructive as well =D
rofl maybe fool hearted and ill conceived werent the best adv but fuck it i gotta b in english and i missed 13 days:)
ember add me on psn and i can talk about dawkins and hawking and hicks and sagan and jefferson and you can correct my english and we can mock the singularity of ignorance that is the playstation network
attention all PS3 users i think i have figured out the reason y playstation network is shut down i think xbox is behind it do to the fact xbox 360 is in competition wit PS3 n PS3 has alot more users than xbox wat about this xbox is the cause of the network outage by xbox hacking into sony so it would crash n then it would look like hackers who have hacked sony before that way ppl would move over to xbox 360 since it is the game system at the moment were it has online tell me if this makes sense or if u agree
you are retarted microshaft would do no such thing to allow sony to make money
you have ds shortbus psn fag dick licker. sony shut down the servers so they could install software that will record everything you do or think while on the ps3. while they were doing that (it was on 420) a worker at sony tripped over the cord of the psn mainframe. its like when your power goes out and when your tv comes back on, on the guide it says To Be Announced on all the channels. its just rebooting. everyone get over it, you can live without the shitty ps3 version of black ops playing against little kids and stoners.
i dont get it… how do they save billions by dropping the servers on the release date for portal and new games like socom and MK? surely they lose out big time on that market…. plus its easter school holidays. kids are buying games and using the network flatout.
no… i think they will loose quite a bit of money from this.
anonhitler… first of all your name isent edgy its just lame and offensive. secondly are you saying that children who use the playstation network enjoy rectal fornication or are they ciguretes…. or are you just a pathetic fucking nerd… oh wait im on an anon site…
jake, this would be true IF PSN charged money to play on their servers. because it’s free, your argument makes little to no sense at all. they make money from the games and the systems being bought, which will not be hampered by a few days of server downtime. if you think about it, the cost of maintaining the servers costs alot, and since they don’t make any money by people playing on them because it’s free, that particular part is a money loss. netwise, however, it’s a gain because people buy games and buy their systems to play on the internet for free, but by having the servers down for merely a few days, people will still be buying them, but without the cost of maintaining servers, it creates a larger profit.
Jeff Buddy, ill have you know sony are losing money. Sony shares dropped by 2.8% at close on thursday afteroon (after the announcement that the servers would be down a day or two). Do you think that in leaving the network down that their shares will go back up. No, they will continue to decline – therefore the company will lose money. Sure they may save money from having the servers down, and people buying games. But, when you compare this to stock market value and reputation its nothing.
you think they would be more prepared.
If Psn it on ready for 8 pm today im am going to buy an xbox because it never happend to xbox
Ummmm Xbox360 got shut down for 12 days when cod4 came out thank you very much
i was FURIOUS… and they gave us a free game didnt they, as an apology (and it sucked lol i was just pumped ta play some cod 4 still think it was the best one)
man, you guys are completely stupid it has nothing to do with them upgrading the servers nor does it have anything to do with them turning it off to protect themselves from a billion-trillion dollars of cash.
it’s just a simple bug within the internal system of the servers, it should take 2-3 days before it can be completely restored. so till then grab your controllers and start killing “zombies” it’s the only thing that’s fun to do while servers are done eh?
and for those you who said Sony is lying to us? please correct your spelling i mean seriously if you’re going to diss the company at-least learn to spell first?
also, Sony’s entertainment doesn’t have to worry about such a huge bill fucking up their company i mean it’s us as a community that’s helping pay that bill by buying the map packs and all that great stuff.
or go out outside and enjoy some fresh fucking air instead of letting a ps3 babysit you while your parents are at work, or at home not caring. fuck black ops. infinity ward rules. sony is rebooting servers in anticipation of 2011 releases including a certain mw3. expect much smoother gameplay, better quality all around (except in the competition, psn fags suck at most games)
Servers are being upgraded, nothing big. The servers will be back up April 24th.
ah yes, and you want us to believe it was Anonymous. we see through your tactics.
Wow, people are posting under my name 0.o I am honoured =D
fuck anontards,have a cry sum more,then go pick on kids LMFAO
mm psn “should be full of kids” they are playing games lols
typical americans fail at targeting anyone with substance so they choose children RALMFAO
Wow. That is all I can say. Actually, I can say a lot more but, I was raised if I cannot say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. So: “…………………………………………………..”
[...] for the outages to the PlayStation Network, and a (supposed) representative of the group posted an editorial saying it had no time to devise a new strategy against Sony, and they had “entirely lost [...]
We should take action if Sony does not get PSN tonight by making them loose money. If any body does not agree, you should read blogs by typing your error code into google, it said two days and it started at eight o clock on wedsday.
If Sony does not get PSN up by 8:00 tonight(since they said it would take 2 days)we should take action by doing some thing to sony for legitly lieing to it’s users. If anyone has any ideas send it to my email, jaydcshoes@aol.com.
Don’t get mad at sony for blaming Anonymous, they did it in the past, so you would only assume that they did it now. Either way i don’t care who did it, i just don’t understand attacking PSN. Did these people(or person) get so bored with masturbating they had to do this?
Sony, if it takes a week to get it up then it takes a week, just make sure that it doesn’t do any dmg to our information.
[...] Anonymous appears to be denying participation in any attack on PSN. A representative of the group posted an editorial to a news aggregation site saying it had no time to devise a new strategy against Sony and "entirely lost [...]
Not sure if hacked or finally talking sense
I suppose you noticed that Anonnews is down. Getting great Lulz off of this.
Looks like Anon may be getting a taste of their own medicine.
I Doubt they hacked the Chronicle, but if so, this was a good way to do it.
Whut? How is Anonymous getting a taste of it’s own medicine? Technically, due to the very nature of Anonymous, it has no official site; anonnews simply tries to compile all relevant news pertaining to Anonymous and it’s actions, to make the information more easily accessible to everyone, Anonymous, individuals, etc =]
It could be hacking, or another one of Kilgores attempts to fail troll =P
FUCK BLACK OPS. its 2 easy and psn kids are fags. but i play other games and sony needs to get their shit together fast