I'm with GeoHot, but I'm also strongly against these self-proclaiming hackers dickheads.
And let's call things with their names, they aren't really hackers, GeoHot is, not them, or at least the vast majority of them.
A true hacker, whatever his reasons, right or wrong, would have looked for vulnerabilities in Sony's own computers and exploited them to attack, and, for example, deface Sony's web pages, take down servers, spread Sony classified business and tech informations. These people are using quite standard, albeit malicious, tools, to take control of common people's very poorly secured PC's, make a botnet and attack Sony with a DDoS. Any self-respecting hacker woudn't lower himself to attack weak targets with cheap tools to do a gross attack like a DDoS, unless it was to demonstrate a weakness in the target subnet, or in the whole structure of Internet, that could be corrected (like it's the case of some attacks made easier by widespread routers, firewalls and gateways with firmware old, buggy and/or vulnerable and not updated). So those that wrote the tools used to do this attack can still be considered hackers, but this bunch of pirates that only used those tools are just LAMERS.
Also they aren't really fighters for freedom, like GeoHot instead is, as they spread Sony employees personal informations, while if they were in good faith they'd have spread only Sony business and/or tech infos (that instead they couldn't as they obviously lack the skills to access them): they just acted like THUGS.
So, lamers and thugs, hackers are something else.
