PSN down for “sporadic maintenance” as hacker group threatens Sony
The infamous hacking group called Anonymous has rage war against Sony, threatening the firm that they would attack its web domains in response for their legal action against George Hotz and others PS3 hackers.
And by the look of things, it seems like they are for real as Sony’s websites have been either inaccessible or loading improperly today. To make the situation worse, the Playstation Network suddenly went down with Sony citing a “sporadic maintenance.”
“PSN currently undergoing sporadic maintenance,” Sony announced on its Twitter post. “Access to the PSN may be interrupted throughout the day. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Earlier this morning, the group issued a message to Sony stating…
“Congratulations! You are now receiving the attention of Anonymous. Your recent legal actions against fellow internet citizens, GeoHot and Graf_Chokolo have been deemed an unforgivable offense against free speech and internet freedom, primary sources of free lulz (and you know how we feel about lulz.)
“You have abused the judicial system in an attempt to censor information about how your products work. You have victimized your own customers merely for possessing and sharing information, and continue to target those who seek this information. In doing so you have violated the privacy of thousands of innocent people who only sought the free distribution of information. Your suppression of this information is motivated by corporate greed and the desire for complete control over the actions of individuals who purchase and use your products, at least when those actions threaten to undermine the corrupt stranglehold you seek to maintain over copywrong, oops, “copyright”.
“Your corrupt business practices are indicative of a corporate philosophy that would deny consumers the right to use products they have paid for, and rightfully own, in the manner of their choosing. Perhaps you should alert your customers to the fact that they are apparently only renting your products? In light of this assault on both rights and free expression, Anonymous, the notoriously handsome rulers of the internet, would like to inform you that you have only been “renting” your web domains. Having trodden upon Anonymous’ rights, you must now be trodden on.
“If you disagree with the disciplinary actions against your private domains, then we trust you can also understand our motivations for these actions. You own your domains. You paid for them with your own money. Now Anonymous is attacking your private property because we disagree with your actions. And that seems, dare we say it, “wrong.” Sound familiar?
“Let Anonymous teach you a few important lessons that your mother forgot: 1. Don’t do it to someone else if you don’t want it to be done to you. 2. Information is free. 3. We own this. Forever.
“As for the “judges” and complicit legal entities who have enabled these cowards: You are no better than SONY itself in our eyes and remain guilty of undermining the well-being of the populace and subverting your judicial mandate.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSCUU4Fg9k
Hello Sony
It has come to our unfortunate attention that you have decided to interupt the free flow of information. As you well know from other acts performed by Anonymous, that we will not stand for this.
By sueing Geo Hot, and attempting to view the IP addresses of those who watched his videos, you have angered the hive.
You have abused and penalized your customers, for obtaining and sharing jailbreak software. This is the same thing as some one buying and legally owning a computer but being punished for installing or deleting programs.
You saw the hive, and you stuck your penis in it.
Now you will feel the wrath of anonymous.
Your official websites will be taken offline, including the playstation store.
These attacks will continue untill we are completely satisfied with the outcome.
We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive greedy companies
We do not forget the denial of free flow of information
Expect us.
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4 / 5 / 2011 8:06 am
I think all sites should just stop with feeding Anon the attention cause thats what they want.. There just a bunch of faceless cowards
4 / 5 / 2011 1:00 pm
I swear I could write an article on these morons, in fact, maybe I will later on. They obviously don’t know this is a SERVICE over the internet which has TERMS and CONDITIONS that you have the freedom to agree or disagree upon and if you disagree just don’t use the damn service! The internet is free and will hopefully always be but services on the internet CAN have terms and conditions. Obviously these idiots think they can read the PSN terms and then sign-up and run a rampage thinking they don’t have certain rules to abide by while on that specific service (PSN).
4 / 8 / 2011 2:33 pm
I hope Sony figures out every single person that helped attack their sites and PSN and shoves civil suits down their throats so that maybe next time they’ll think before doing something as juvenile as this. Faceless internet tough guys is all Anonymous consists of.
4 / 24 / 2011 6:12 pm
thats defenatly what i want to see happen maybe see em livin on the streets so when they ask for a dime i’ll be like sure then sike….
4 / 27 / 2011 7:42 am
when i get on i get d ranked bot back to the point just take them off and let us play we shoul not have to wait for u to get done its gone to take for ever
4 / 27 / 2011 7:44 am
just take them off and let us play we shoul not have to wait for u to get done its gone to take for ever
4 / 5 / 2011 3:00 pm
To be honest, I’m really rather suprised they’re still capable of doing this. Anon isn’t what it once was.
4 / 5 / 2011 8:09 pm
You guys are a bunch of idiots. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, or any corporation, is not on your side. If you think for one second that these companies have a vested interest in making sure you, the consumer, is satisfied – think again. I could care less if this group hacked into Sony’s websites and made them inoperable.
What I do care about is Sony ripping away the right I have to do with what I legally purchased and that’s do whatever I want to my PS3. If I want to reverse engineer my system to have another OS installed, then that is my business. If I want to hack into my system so that it can play pirated games, then that’s my business. Sony lost it’s right to tell me what to do with my system once they took my cash in exchange for their electronic gadget. This is simple economics, people. And this process of transferring ownership from one person to another after both have agreed to mutual terms of exchange, is what built the blueprint to what we know as CAPITALISM.
Oh, and another thing…If you guys don’t like what this hacker group is doing, then move away to some breakaway soviet republic somewhere near eastern Europe. Russia anyone? Or better yet, why not try communist China if you’re feeling the urge to expatriate out of the country?
4 / 6 / 2011 7:41 pm
Hacking and modifying your PS3 system is cool in my opinion, people can do some awesome stuff with it like say, put Windows 7 as their OS on the PS3 and as long as you are doing that on the PS3 it is no problem, heck you can even connect online through your PS3 for free (internet applications that don’t require PSN) and use those with a hacked PS3 if I’m not mistaken.
Here’s where the problem arises though, and I have to agree with Sony on this, it’s when hackers get the ability to get into PSN. What’s wrong with this? Well, we have all seen it, the majority of hackers that get access to PSN don’t necesarilly do what other non-hacking PSN users want in their online experience. For one, if a normal player buys Modern Warfare 2 for his PS3 and then goes online, he expects a smooth, fair online experience like he was advertised, not going into public lobbies and getting de-ranked and instantly killed, and then pressing the start button to leave and not being able leave the game because the start menu is blocked out. (this happened to me). This is quite frustrating because when I signed up to PSN I did NOT ask for this sort of thing, I know all hackers do not do this but there are enough to raise massive attention.
Another thing is pirating, if you are able to illegally download items that normal users are have to purchase off the PlayStation store and so forth that is CONSIDERED stealing, despite it being called “pirating” it is literally the same meaning. This is a disadvantage to users who also signed up for the service and have to BUY the same items a hacker can pirate. If more and more pirates do this then it leads to the slow demise of that industry, making new companies and so forth unable to profit and make other games. These are just two problems that are pretty huge and are unfair to the normal user on PSN who just want what they signed-up for.
And finally, NO I am NOT a “corporate nuthugger” as you say and I don’t really give a crap about Sony’s legal opinion, it just happens that I agree with them in this case. Hackers do amazing things everywhere else in the gaming world but when it comes to them being on an online gaming network, it’s usually just trouble brewing and not very well liked by well, anyone who isn’t a hacker themselves. Also, this is just my opinion, there are no doubt several staff members on this site that would disagree with me because they hack as well but I guess I am just looking at the big picture here and seeing an eventual problem unravel.
4 / 24 / 2011 6:08 pm
i still think you got problems at home and again thats ok BTW i think russias cool so yea……
4 / 5 / 2011 11:24 pm
when will sony learn …
losers
4 / 24 / 2011 6:05 pm
wow your cool……
4 / 6 / 2011 9:50 am
Damn so I couldn’t get on PSN so I go on here 2 see wats up and see this. lol I’m pissed that I can’t get on the network but I gotta admit these niggaz are hardcore I just hope this shit don’t last too long.
4 / 6 / 2011 2:53 pm
**just want to apologize in advance for language proceeding this rant**
i for one agree that you shoudl eb able to do what you want with your system once you purchase. i for one also dont support that hacking ps3 community and my system will remain jailbreak free.
one the main reasons i didnt support hacking the ps3 is cause of what i may bring (looking at recent occurances). i knew this would happen, i knew it would get out of hand, i knew this would be an ongoing battle.
anonymous isnt doing any sort of justice whether i supported hacking my system or not. they are all about freedom of information not hacking peoples systems. what they are doing is hampering EVERYONES experience by DDoS attacks on sony’s server that range from websites to the psn.
that being said F**K ANONYMOUS. they might be tryin to prove a point…thats all fine and dandy but who the f**k volunteered my experience for the cause? i chose to have nothing to do with the hacking community yet my gaming experience is hampered cause they want to send a message?
so took away OtherOS. f**ked up? yeah it is to the minority that actually used it. i feel ya on that. so what makes anonymous any better preventing us from goin online with our systems?
evil for evil results in more evil. stupid cycle that will only get more out of hand.
again F**K ANONYMOUS…your cause is understandable but your actions is not…F**K’em
i only see this a lose/lose for sony. if they win case attackers will only get worse. if they drop the case then they admit defeat which will let other know that sony can just be walked over upon. if they run into any trouble just call on trust anonymous to save the day by f**king over everyone.
the real losers here…US…THE CONSUMER…WE GET F**KED BY BOTH SONY AND THE HACKERS..WOOT!
4 / 6 / 2011 6:14 pm
I hate to say it…but…it’s people like you that make me sick to my stomach! You and the rest of these corporate nuthuggers on this website love it when companies like Sony ram their corporate manifestos up inside you-know-where anytime they bitch and moan about being attacked.
I’m glad this group is hacking their freaking servers, and from what I hear, they’re doing a great job at that.
Anonymous has my respect, whoever they are, and it makes me so glad that finally someone has the balls to stand up to those jerks over at Sony.
4 / 24 / 2011 6:02 pm
i think your mad cause you got some problems at home but thats ok
4 / 6 / 2011 9:51 pm
@ben well everyones entitled to their opinion. Thats just mines and just to let you know yours matters to me just as much as mines matters to you. Mutual feeling. Im glad you support a group that hampers your experience more than the intended target. I could careless…i stand by my opinion. I dont care if people hack their systems or not…its all our choice. I had linux and it got disabled…whooptie do. I can install and even greater distro on my pc. My ps3 experience was fine til anonymous took it upon themselves to use us as guinea pigs for a cause.
Oh and by the way @ben … I care less if u hate me lol. Shows my opinions have such impact on people like youself. Good luck with your undivided support for your anonymous brothers that remain faceless. Way to go! Lol
4 / 6 / 2011 11:41 pm
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/anonymous-stops-psn-attacks-but-demands-surface-84536/
Heres a link where anonymous made a statement that they found by attack sony’s servers thru DDoS wasnt in best interest to their cause by hurting sony’s customers…you know us.
There you have it mr @benjamin. Quotes from your beloved anonymous group. Even they agree themselves that wasnt in the best interest of us to hamper our experience…reason i blew up at them and not sony.
I dont retract my statements above nut i do give them credit taking a different approach without screw over the people your supposedly representing.
4 / 25 / 2011 3:21 pm
im not a corporate nuthugger but what they are doing is f**k’n daffy. sony spends time and money working on building this stuff, and if you dont know what i mean, its just like you making something and someone else take that and gets all the credit for it. im fine with hacker that find something new or they make it run off battery’s or make a game for ps3 ( you need a license to do so ) but i hope they find that anonomis group and put them in jail because from what i know, its illegal to crash a website(@ least in the USA). also its not illegal to trace an ip address either, but i would only do so to find the people that hack psn and become tenth prestige, and personally i think there is no point of playing a game when you hacked to the highest level because what is there to acomplish afterwords? kill 1000 people, oh wait! you cant you dont even know how to play the damn game. im fine with a club for hackers but agian if they deal w/ psn or something like that. trace those mother f**kers ip’s
4 / 25 / 2011 4:52 pm
i’ve been trying 2 get on FTB3 for 4 days and it doesnt let me sign in Whats Wrong?