He now has special accounts he can monitor... one slip up from them and he'll give all their info to the government.

He's pandering to the low and giving them rewards for being dicks. Maybe people should tweet him and cancelling their orders with him to show him where we stand. That being not with the hackers by giving them free stuff but against them.

PSN still down for me.

Yeah which would give lizard squad an incentive to do this even more 

Me and my bro have been playing all morning. No issues.

Exactly, you do pay for Land PS+ but then these people could also take down Netflix but they don't. They do however take down other gaming services. You have to wonder why it's gaming services? (other than the fact they are easily found IPs and these poor kids are just pissed they never win at CoD).

Rewarding them is worse.

He didn't really reward them though, he gave all 3000 of them lifetime vouchers that will be terminated if they do it again. So maybe it'll work, it's more than Microsoft, Sony or the authorities have been doing.

He's giviing them something for doing something bad. He's paying the ransom. He's an idiot, good intentions or not. Maybe these freaks will accidentily use some personal info on these things then bang, no more fucktards ruining things becuase they can't get some.

XBL is up for around 13h now. It was down for about 6-7h.

One can hope!

Its down for me since yesterday. I even went to the web store and PSN network status and i keep getting that service is temporarly unavailable.