NEWS ABOUT ANONYMOUS

[evans789]

Over the weekend, it appeared as if Sony had attracted a powerful antagonist. Anonymous, the "hacktivist" group associated with temporarily bringing down high-profile websites such as Amazon.com and Paypal, announced its intention to exact retribution on Sony over what it deemed to be unjustified legal proceedings against George Hotz and others who released a master key for the PlayStation 3.


Anonymous apparently still has "big surprises" in store for Sony.

Shortly after the announcement, users began reporting server instability for the PlayStation Network and site outages for PlayStation.com and the PlayStation Blog. Today, Sony acknowledged these technical issues, indicating that these problems may indeed be due to an attack on its systems.

"We are currently investigating [the network instability], including the possibility of targeted behavior of an outside party," a Sony representative told GameSpot. "If this is indeed caused by such act, we want to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service. Our engineers are working to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers' continued support. "

The good news for PS3 owners is that it appears as if Anonymous will be backing off its hostilities. An update to the loose-knit organization's website claims it would no longer be directing its efforts at bringing down services such as the PlayStation Network.

"Anonymous is not attacking the PSN at this time," the update reads. "Sony's official position is that the PSN is undergoing maintenance. We realize that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers."

"Anonymous is on your side, standing up for your rights," the message continues. "We are not aiming to attack customers of Sony. This attack is aimed solely at Sony, and we will try our best to not affect the gamers, as this would defeat the purpose of our actions. If we did inconvenience users, please know that this was not our goal."

The group went on to note that its campaign against Sony will continue "until we are satisfied with the outcome."

[betrayed olive]

Good, hopefully they actually do something.

[FlashDrive101]

This groups has some power and plenty of smarts to not get caught. Sony is in for one hell of a fight this time.

[Turkish-PSG]

"Anonymous is not attacking the PSN at this time," the update reads. "Sony's official position is that the PSN is undergoing maintenance. We realize that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers."

Seems like they've backed themselves into a corner. Finally they see the picture they not hurting sony they are hurting the consumers.

So by being Anti-Sony they've pretty much made the legitimate consumers Anti-them and now in which instead of being supported by the gamers they are hated by the people they are supposedly out to defend.

Now they are trying to save some face...

[AlaynaEverman]

Is it okay if I PM you? I wanted to ask you something in private.

[HarleyWooD]

any who thinks they are hurting the consumers is just about ******ed im pretty sure everyone will live a few days without terrible psn makes me laugh when kids cant play cod

[Turkish-PSG]

Thats a dumb logic, so I should find it okay that bunch of little kids are messing with my PSN just becoz they're butthurt at Sony?

[HarleyWooD]

you should realize that this is beyond you i know you personally own multiple ps3's so cfw isnt an issue and im not trying to be a complete **** i just think this is something that should be done and a few days without psn is alot less crippling then the loss of even more sales and i agree they shouldnt have brought geo or graf into this pointing fingers and association isn't really good for anyone sorry for just saying random 1 line insult i was in a bad mood when i read this and replied haste-fully i am one of those homebrewers that has no need for psn and its just not an issue to me at all i also do not have a hard on for $ony and believe they are almost getting what they deserve if only it was a little more harsh

[Dash_2]

ill make your butt hurt boy bring it here and get some

[ihaxgames-PSG]

Seems like they've backed themselves into a corner. Finally they see the picture they not hurting sony they are hurting the consumers.

So by being Anti-Sony they've pretty much made the legitimate consumers Anti-them and now in which instead of being supported by the gamers they are hated by the people they are supposedly out to defend.

Now they are trying to save some face...

My friend couldn't get on PSN but after seeing this he still supports them, besides most ppl who are pissed off are the codfags