Your recent attack on PSN isn't justice. It isn't some honorable cause that you have hearkened to. It is pure and utter malice. It undermines everything you have ever stood for. It undermines those that would support you. It undermines everything you have set out to accomplish.
Before you jump to conclusions, understand something: I, along with millions of PS3 owners support Anonymous in many of Anonymous' undertakings. Many Anonymous members are PS3 owners themselves.
We supported and joined you when you protested the WTO in Seattle in 1999.
We support and join you in your protest of scientology.
We support you and join you in protest of the Westborough Baptist Church.
We sent money to defend Julian Assange. Helped with the DDOS on Visa (and others.)
We support your unerring efforts to bring about global change on many, many fronts.
Some of us have even supported George Hotz.
In short, we are the very people that join those protests and help your numbers swell, help the monetary needs of those who fight the good fight.
Attacking PSN was not the good fight. If you have a problem with SONY, then go after SONY. Though PSN is their property, what you have done is nothing short of anger the very gamers, professionals, and individuals who would go to bat for you. Sure, it may mean a little inconvenience. We can't play our multiplayer games or download DLC or updates, it is true. But the one thing that you have affected, and the one thing you would be the least likely to criticize was Folding@Home. Thousands of PS3s were shut off from the Folding@Home project.
From the University of Stanford: "Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
You can help scientists studying these diseases by simply running a piece of software."
Simply by running the app on my PS3 I am helping to fight these diseases. Now, you, Anonymous have interrupted the mission. You feel strongly about what happens in the world. We do to. And to better the world, we allow Stanford to use our PS3s through the PSN to help understand these diseases and fight them. We are just as passionate about this as you are in your fights to right the wrongs of this world. To impart your own justice.
Curing disease is justice. How many lives have you affected? How many people may die because you had to disrupt the computing power of thousands? Just to get your revenge? Too dramatic? Remember that this attack has sent a ripple through the efforts to fight cancer, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell, and many other diseases. It has disrupted efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
So, from those of us who have supported you for nigh on 2 decades and are helping to fight debilitating diseases, Screw you. Screw you, very much.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Anonymous is not your personal army
I really don't care what Anon has done in the past. These recent events have shown their true colours, The threats, the attacks, the inconveniences. And now the lies, the cyber terrorism. the identity theft and the blackmail. Sing all the praises you want be they are nothing but cyber mafia. Do what we say or suffer.
I don't believe they were ever for the people if this is what their members do when they don't get what they want. They already talked about attacking Sony employees and exposing peoples info online. What next? Arson? industrial sabotage? Are you going to storm Sony's buildings and kill everyone? Anon is so stupid to have members who they don't know. They could be recruiting killers and thieves and would know how far they would go. And they sit in their ivory tower while their members do what they want and don't care who it affects.
anonymous wont be changing anything by going after sony, sony is obligated to do everything within its legal power to protect its investors.
what sony is doing may not be agreeable to anonymous, but that doesnt make sony at fault. anonymous should be trying to change government, not the people who act within the law.
name me one good thing that has come out of anonymous' attacks on sony. even if anonymous succeeded in bankrupting sony (which wont happen) other companies will fill the gap that is left in the market and they'll take the same actions to protect their investors
the only result that can occur from this in terms of anonymous is anonymous loosing influence, if sony is brought down, another steps up, and after that another will. things like this projects research being halted is a big loose for the world, but thats not even the half of it as there is potential for actual change, but that potential is being squandered by people who dont know how to use it. the more they fail the harder it will ever be to change, gotta pick your battles...
tl;dr if anonymous wants to make change they need to attack government, not the people who are being governed
Wow. Am I the only person who actually read the entire blog post. Yes he STARTS off by saying that he supported Anonymous, but then he transitions into how their attack on PSN has impacted thousands through the folding at home process (something which I didn't even think about until now). He's not supporting Anonymous in this article. He's trying to show them that they are hurting countless people by this act. Well said.
Two things you need to understand:
1) The Anonymous that's attacking Sony isn't the some one which which has done actual social and consumer good in the past.
2) There's been some basic, blind hatred towards Sony and the PS this gen ever since the PS3's price which is still an unforgiven crime to this day. That Anon lost any legitimate reason behind their attack after Holtz settled yet continued to do at the very least suggest the existence of such hatred. That people who feel such happily got involved.