Sony fans, let's talk.

[rocketpig]

Baalzamon said:

rocketpig said:

I can't believe people here hope that Sony actually wins this battle. I'm not condoning Anon's actions but Sony is clearly in the wrong as well. They're trying to fuck over their consumer base, for crying out loud. How can anyone get behind that?

Pretty much everyone involved here is being a total fuckwit. Anon for attacking innocent PSN users/Sony employees, Sony for being such cockgobblers and reaching FAR beyond what should be their scope of legal action (if there is a right to legal action here at all), and that assclown judge for letting it all go down.

How exactly is Sony trying to fuck their consumer base up?  Quite frankly, I could care less if they have my IP for going to a website (I don't even remember for the life of me whether I didn't go check it out for shits and giggles).  If they do anything with these IP addresses, Sony will have a lawsuit against them instantaneously, and I strongly feel courts would side against Sony, because people have the right to visit a website.

They shouldn't have asked for IP addresses to all those who visited Geohot's site and the judge SURE AS HELL shouldn't have granted their request. It was an information grab that was way outside the bounds of what they needed to pursue Geohot (a bullshit case in its own right but that's another argument).

In general, I'm not a fan of companies that treat their users like criminals and Sony just showed total contempt for the people who spent their hard-owned money on a PS3, even if their intent was to hack the shit out of the thing (completely within their rights to do as a consumer).