Sony often engages is posturing behavior in an effort to intimidate opponents. The truth is that the threat is purely a very ficticious one. They know firstly that case law is probably not on their side, and neither is the spirit of the law. They want to imply that both are however. Hoping that you will buy in to that notion. Sony will throw a lot of jargon at you, and run a hundred lawyers at you. However the jargon is garbage, and the lawyers are unarmed. The truth is that possession is nine tenths of the law, and courts favor ownership.
Thus Sony limits its litigation. They will never go to trial. A trial will establish a precedent. A precedent which will most likely be on the side of the consumer. Were that to happen the flood gates would be open. They aren't going to hand the modifying community a weapon to use against them. This all said don't buy into the crap. Sony never has a real case in the matter of modified code or hardware. This is the same reason that Microsoft never goes after modders. They just block them from their online service. Which is a free service, and they are not obligated to provide. Especially if you use code to steal software, harrass other users, or have altered the hardware from its intended function. In such cases they are well within their right not to do business with you, and you have no real expectation to receive the service.
People who own things have every right to do what they want with them. You are not renting from Sony or squatting. You aren't in a legally binding contract with them either. You cannot sell someone something, and then impose any kind of contract after the fact. Sometimes I think people view game companies like Darth Vader. Like they can change the rules as they see fit. Having trouble understanding treat your console like it was your car, and you will see how pain painfully unlawful half the powers they claim to have are. Like changing a term or service immediately active in the middle of a subscription service, and claiming they have the arbitrary right. Don't buy into the bullcrap. They are all full of it, and they really do know that. They just blow hard praying you aren't going to call their bluff.
Speaking to Anonymous that evidence is painfully flimsy, and more to the point unreliable. The source alone makes it all suspect. Sony needs to have answer and some justification. What better justification then saying a large organized yet decentralized group orchestrated a massive attack. What worse excuse if a couple guys did this on their weekends. One says they failed, but they faced a hard challenge. The other says they failed, and there was no excuse at all. That all said if Anonymous did plant that message it still doesn't mean they were involved in the data theft. All it could mean is that the defenses at Sony were truly paper thin, and they may have had dozens or hundreds of incursions into their network. Which means making themselves a target was a real blunder. This could make capturing the real attackers almost impossible.
