sony have shown they do not learn from mistakes.  even so its highly unlikely they view this as such.  a corporation has successfully trampled on an individual and personal rights, thus making it easier to do so in the futre and you think they are going to regret it? 

what the OP is talking about. Let me explain my point in more detail. There's always going to be criminal activiy,there's always going to be criminals and there's alway's going to be hacker's and piracy,but that doesn't mean you just sit back and do nothing. You should fight for your livelyhood,and you should fight for what's right? Let's say someone stole something from your place of business,do you not then,go and try to catch the person and maybe add extra security.  

should the US regret trying to wage a war on terrorism?   just because the fight is hard and the enemy is elusive doesn't mean the fight isn't worth fighting.

The US hasn't been fighting terrorism, they have been fighting Islamic countries and killing hundreds of thousands of people; and making the lives of millions more miserable. The whole "War on terrorism" does not exist; it is merely a marketing term to get fools to support the hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars being spent on weapons for wars against oil rich countries.

Sony hasn't done anything even remotely as evil as what the US government has been doing.

what the OP is talking about. Let me explain my point in more detail. There's always going to be criminal activiy,there's always going to be criminals and there's alway's going to be hacker's and piracy,but that doesn't mean you just sit back and do nothing. You should fight for your livelyhood,and you should fight for what's right? Let's say someone stole something from your place of business,do you not then,go and try to catch the person and maybe add extra security.  

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.