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by Steve Watts, Apr 07, 2011 12:15pm PDTThe hacker group "Anonymous" announced it has ceased its cyber attacks on the PlayStation Network, and apologized for inconveniencing users, in a post on AnonNews. "We realize that targeting the PSN is not a good idea," the post read. "We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers."
The group argues that it's on the side of the customers, and only aiming at Sony. "If we did inconvenience users, please know that this was not our goal," it says. "This operation is a response to Sony's attempt to deprive their customers of products they bought and therefore own, wholly and completely. Anonymous will not attempt to fight this by following the exact same course of action."
Sony Web sites and the PlayStation Network have seen intermittent outages over the last few days. Sony's official statement on the matter was that the PSN was undergoing maintenance, though it later acknowledged "the possibility of targeted behavior of an outside party."
The "hacktivist" group initially started targeting Sony in retaliation for pursuing legal action against PlayStation 3 hackers (or reverse engineers) George Hotz (aka "GeoHot") and Graf_Chokolo. The PS3 jailbreak method they found led to easier entry for pirates, and Sony took legal action.
We've contacted Sony regarding this new development, and will update as information becomes available.
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I am of the opinion that if you buy a piece of hardware, you should be able to do with it what you want. However, as you yourself just stated that Apple was told that people are allowed to "jail break" their phones. When people do that they suffer the loss of standard Apple features and what not so that is a choice they make. You can't have your cake and eat it to.
For SONY if you want to jail break the PS3 then that is fine, you should be allowed to do it but you have the accept the consequences of it. You have to separate the hardware from the software. If you treat the PS3 like a computer you buy from the store then you are at the mercy of the OS you choose to install as far as features, etc. With the PS3 you have the option to update the firmware/OS to play with the PSN. If you don't then you cant use the PSN in the same way people who jail break their iPhone can't use the AppStore anymore (I have not jail broken my iPhone as I do not have one so feel free to correct me on that ).
This is a matter for the courts to determine if the consumer has the legal right to do what they want with the hardware. If they want to use it how they want, more power to them. But if they want to have it so they can use it as SONY plans then they have to play buy their rules to use the software. So either buy a 2nd PS3 for the express purpose of jail breaking it or take your chances on the PSN.
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