| RolStoppable said: It really doesn't matter whether or not Sony regrets it, going after George Hotz was simply unnecessary. The usual result of companies taking "extreme" measures to fight piracy is that honorable customers suffer (like certain DRMs on PC games) which is exactly the case right now with PSN being down for whatever reason. It's unfortunate, but it would have never happened if Sony didn't take Geohot to court. Those who defend Sony in this justify it by saying that Sony is trying to protect their experience. If someone pirates PS3 games, it doesn't affect you. That leaves people who hack and use cheats to gain advantages in online games. With the technology at Sony's proposal it shouldn't be that hard to ban such PS3s from PSN forever and once word about that spreads (which it does fast on the internet), hacking activities would decrease drastically. Hacked PS3s would basically stay offline and the chances that your gaming experience was or will ever be affected would be minimal. While this may possibly sound like I am justifying the actions of Anonymous in some way, it is not my intention. What you should do is think about your own interests which I described in the middle paragraph. There would have been a better solution to handle this incident from the very beginning. |
If it was that easy,would'nt Sony have done that already. I believe if someone pirates PS3 games,it does effect you. Maybe games stop being made for the system if Sony and the game developer's lose money due to all of these games being pirated,maybe the price of games go up in genral,due to games being pirated. Maybe sony is forced to leave the console business,due to all of these games being pirated. All of those things could happen if Sony just sat back and said have at it piracy and hacker people. Customer's suffer from piracy and hacker's period,regardless of weather a company takes extreme measures against them.
