PSN hysteria "a lot of piss and s**t"

[Gnizmo]

Max King of the Wild said:

address and phone numbers are considered public and Im not so sure about e-mails considering thats considered an adress on the web. I know if you use that for anything other than communicating with your friends its considered public... hell some companies sell e-mail addresses to other companies.

And as for your second bit I wouldnt be surprised if it was less. I have 5 accounts myself.

Addresses and phone numbers are absolutely not considered public information. There is no obligation to disclose it, and no problem never revealing either to anyone. You can, with a few calls, make it to where no one outside of those you specifically inform have your mailing address or phone number. None of the above is true for public information. If I can easily prevent you from knowing something, and this is backed by government action then the information in question cannot be public. The public has no right to know it unless I choose to disclose it. Information being avaliable doesn't make it public. Personal information is the definition of private which is why it was secured to begin with.

So you think less than a third of consoles with PSN access ever use it? 118 million consoles in consumer hands, and only 35 million use it?