Get Alex Jones on the phone
So they decline to testify because of an internal investigation. This is common. Even when there is no internal investigation people and groups decline all the time.
Sony just needs to think of more organizational innovation and they can keep PSN free. How does Google manage free Gmail, and how does Facebook keep ...well free Facebook? Part of the strategy which keeps users from having to pay directly is that they are leaders in advertisment techniques that make their networks valuable to other companies willing to pay for recognition. Both of those companies are constantly making security upgrades as holes become exploited but they have so far managed to...
Don't forget the cost of hiring the "security experts" for such a large job, and probably some overtime pay for any of the employees who are "working around the clock" as Sony says.
Anonymous isn't an organized group because are all supposed to be anonymous. If one Anonymous guy participates in stealing data, then of course the millions of other Anonymous who didnt do it can deny it. That's their goal and what makes them a hard target.
@B1663r- Actually as a new investor of only a few months, I am pretty foolish...sort of. This is the only tech stock I have. Call it a bad impulse because I didn't wait enough and I will lose, but chances are I will still gain later on since I bought in volume. The rest of my stocks I know what I'm doing with are in healthcare, snack products, and industrial materials.
It's great actually. You're supposed to buy stocks when they're low. I just bought some while others were selling although it hasn't gone too low yet. Now I'm a shareholder of Sony, not a very powerful one but I hope to benefit with Sony when they bounce back. And hey, I just invested some of my money with them. Win/win
It's not necessarily that people do or don't actually know more than Sony (although hopefully Suny isn't too proud that they think they know it all), it's just that Sony made a cost/risk assessment that resulted in a painful outcome. Pay extra money up front before trouble starts, or pay more money later to fix the problem in addition to public embarrasment. With the removal of "other OS" and multiple firmware updates, Sony knew they were engaging in a public campaig...
Ever since the removal of "Other OS", Sony might as well give the FBI a room at their offices.
Didn't they already hire professionals when they formed Sony's gaming division? I thought that's what employees and consultants were for.
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@ftwrthtx- Do you understand that classic play though? It's like a hostage situation where a gunman has a gun to his hostage. They tell the negotiator they want $1,000,000 dollars or the hostage is dead. The ultimatum is placed in the hands of the negotiator to bring the money or let the hostage die.
In this scenario, Sony is the negotiator and the Gamers are the hostage. Does the hostage tell the gunman to put the gun down? Or urge Sony to pay up the $1,000,000. And if ...
They have been improving. Though I know they are still struggling the same way any high profile entity does when a disaster strikes. Knowing when to talk or not to talk. How much to say, and will today's truth be tomorrows lie by way of circumstances. Do you look weak if you say you don't know the issue? Or do you look weak if you don't talk and let people think you don't know. It's not easy.
Seriously. Sony, thanks for telling us. And I understand your legal teams are stacked to protect yourselves, but where were your IT security teams to protect our PSN gamer's info? You don't go to war with shabby defenses. Nor do you underestimate your opposition.
I remember the great clock glitch. I was sort of in disbelief that the PS3 wouldn't even play any offline games. Fortunately it was just a waiting game for Sony. Hopefully Sony learns alot from these trials they've gone through.
Developers didn't lose any purchases of games because they can't lose what they didn't have. They only lost the potential to sell during this time frame. And even that is attributed to them making a business decision in which they surely had to read fine print from Sony that says the PSN could go down at anytime. So they bet & lost out for a few days. That's business.
@MegaSackman- Of course movies have "rewatch" value. I rewatched plenty of movies that reveal details in the end that change the way you look at the whole movie. So you then re watch to see if those details were just tacked on or was it really well done. Movies like "A Beautiful Mind", "Saw 1", "Inside Man", "Shutter Island" and plenty more.
But in video games, not only can you replay the game with new knowledge of what's ...
That's the best part about it. Just have confidence and make your choices with no regrets. Like in life you have many choices but you have to make them and move on. The best part about it being a video game is that you can go back and try again (a luxury we don't have in real life).
I love choices in games. The more the better, as long as it backs up a strong narrative and has meaningful rewards or consequences. I equally appreciate games without much choice. But games with multiple choices and many endings is the pinnacle of replay value for me. Games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect that provide no only many choices but slightly different experiences and choices based on your chosen gender and skill class.
Maybe if you draw it down to the modern RPG, I...
I wonder if Sony ever considered a tempting PR play. Consider that IF in fact most gamers don't care to receive compensation for missing out on the PSN service (with no annual fee of course), Sony could for that very reason see themselves as doing a favor, or paying it forward by providing a token of goodwill in the interest of future consumer relations. It would have to be for that reason, not because they feel obligated to reimburse for a service that is free when taken at face value.
The pros and cons of open source to closed networks would be a better example if PSN was open source. But the PSN is definitely NOT open source.