first off here this should clear up any misunderstand on how this all started taken fromhttp://gamercrave.com/ps3-hacker-geohot-on-lost-linux-support-im-sorry/2349/ :

On Sunday, Sony announced that it the next Playstation 3 firmware update will cut off “Other OS” support, which allowed users to install Linux distributions on the console. Effective April 1, PS3 Linux users will have to back up their data and wave goodbye to the feature or avoid the update and sacrifice online play and other features. Sony has only pinned the change on “security concerns,” but hacker George “Geohot” Hotz, who released the first-ever PS3 hack earlier this year (preceded by several high-profile iPhone jailbreaks), which could ultimately allow piracy or other nefarious uses of the consoles, believes he played a role:

First off, I want to apologize to all the people who use Linux on their PS3. Before releasing, I weighed the pros and cons, and considered the possibility of an impact on OtherOS support. My logic was this. OtherOS support had already been removed from the Slim … The builders had apparently no intention of including it in future products. So for the purposes of openness why not release?

"I am saying that the hackers tried to have a positive effect"

ok lets go with this so they attack the network hoping to cost sony money... so you're saying that if hackers gain the ability to exploit the console through a secondary feature again later on that what happened will deter then from removing it? let me ask you something do you really believe that the money sony lost from the hack would have been more than if piracy had been allowed to happen through the exploit?

PSN users: Anonymous self-absorbed and pretentious for expecting people to give a fuck that they think they're living in a shitty Alan Moore comic.

Anonymous aren't actually that bad. They DDoSed the Sony site, what, twice? It was down for a grand total of maybe 12 hours. And at least they did it for a reason, even if the reason was terrible.

Between Lulzsec and Anon, Anonymous are definitely the lesser of two evils.

I'm sorry Anon I don't care what your justification was for downing PSN, but users who paid good money to own PS3's and good money to own online games have every right to be upset that you deprived them of that service. Now someone pointed out Geo sure Anon attacked Sony to send a message "How dare Sony take away our ability to run another OS on the system" in retaliation for Sony taking the other OS feature off of PS3 we are going to take PSN from the millions of users. Take that Sony you take away our OS we take everyones PSN away, now were even.

Where is the logic in that? I'm sorry Anon but yah you may have had a goal to stand up for the consumer but in the end you did exactly what Sony did. Your mad at Sony for screwing the consumer so you inturn screw the consumer more?

Anonymous should have come up with their own image instead of stealing someone elses.

That said, Anonymous are kids, that is all. Crying over their spilt milk while the rest of us enjoyed our fruit juice (until they came along, even if it wasn't them that took our fruit juice away from us for a month).

Ah, go fuck yourself anon.

i don't see who's the butthurt here, the guys who are butthurt that their pathetic butthurt plan didn't work.
or the people who can't play online because of some butthurt group trying to have their butthurt revenge.

I somehow get the feeling that anon won't be happy unless there are butthurt and selfish people resulting from the outage. Kind of reminds me of the Joker in a way........

Wow. An interview with some random guy. Fascinating.

This interview makes them sound butthurt and selfish they been so petty thou this whole thing YOU LOST get over it. They stopped attacking Sony after the backlash which lead Anonymous themselves to be hacked. Thanks to they're evil diabolical plans they lead millions of citizens into getting free stuff from the Sony!