It did happen to MS first. Theyve been attacked a few times this year already with DDos attacks by many different groups. http://gearnuke.com/hacker-group-derp-beigns-attacking-xbox-live-brings-ddos-attack/ Yet they wern't bashed about it. If it happened to MS first today you would see just as many if not more MS fans bahsing Sony bringing up past attacks. It does mean Sony fans know more about it. In these forums at least because so far the only ones to show extreme ignorance about it and be wrong were MS dedicated fans. It's really isn't hard to understand, the only ones so far that showed ignorance, or were wrong about DDos attacks have been MS dedicated fans and they bash sony even tho they suffered several attacks so far themselves.

Same thing pulls Xbox Live down.

DDoS attacks are not hacks! No information is taken, nothing is changed, the server is just overrun with useless requests. Pretty much everyone is vulnerable to this. On a large enough scale, even Google could be taken down. Amazon has in the past as well.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/08/24/playstation-network-update-2/#sf4320680



Like other major networks around the world, the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network have been impacted by an attempt to overwhelm our network with artificially high traffic.

Although this has impacted your ability to access our network and enjoy our services, no personal information has been accessed.
We will continue to work towards fixing this issue and hope to have our services up and running as soon as possible.

We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.

LOL!

Yes it happened to MS and when you go back to that time you will find Sony fans bashing MS. 

Today is just exploding because of all this shit with that Lizard guy and so on and you would see much less posts today without this.

If the whole case today would have been a problem for only an hour and without all these crazy tweets from these twitter guys the topic would be already done and this thread would have probably only a tenth of the posts.

You're not sure how to feel about this? That's a strange response. 

I didn't know how to feel either. I was frustrated at first because I wanted to play diablo with my friends on my day off. Then I thought about the long lasting benefits to society and how i will be reimbursed for my Sunday off after its fixed. Then I remembered that wasnt true or remotely possible and then I had an epiphany: I remembered how not being able to access things I pay for by people martyring my time and finances leaves me torn.

On one hand its frustrating but on the other hand its frustrating. In the end I feel frustrated. I then remembered how those guys at Sony and Sony (as a person, since its a corperation) must also be frustrated. Then I remembered it really is only me suffering. But part of me is like "coperations are bad" but then part of me is like "Shut up. Sony must suffer, even if you don't understand why, it is for your own good".

So I listened to the part of me that told me to "shut up". That part of me is right. But then I remembered theres another side to it.....but even though I remember there is something other than frustration to feel I dont recall exactly what it is. Oh yeah, when people do this they tap into that part of me that really wants to sacrifice my free time and have people tell me how I should use it for the good of me that I didnt even recognize. So in the end I am frustrated, but I am sure there is another way to look at it.

It might be empathy, it might be gas pains. Who can know for sure.

You should read about confounders in statistics.

It's obvious this is a very bad thing indeed and shouldn't be done. I just don't understand why they're doing this; the bomb threat stuff for example. 

Also the "good luck" thing is sarcastic. 

Jesus these guys are morons, telling airlines that there are bombs on flights now? How stupid do they have to be to think that they'll get away with this?