"If sony had a water tight case why would they settle?"
What would they gain from taking it all the way if he has to ask for donations just to pay for his lawyers?, kids broke, they wouldn't get a dime - so they switched it and made sure he or anyone he works with, EVER, can have anything to do with hacking any Sony product, EVER.
He's basically banned from messing about with any Sony product, ever.
You guys saying hots/anonymous won, need to watch more crime/law shows, someone only ever accepts a deal if they know things aren't looking good for them and the other side has evidence to nail you harder should you not accept.
As for Anonymous, they didn't do much of anything except some script kiddy attacks that got stopped in their tracks by prolexic (hence why they changed to organizing a sit-in at Sony stores), the settlement has taken the wind out of their sales...
Very doubtful, it claims to be installing 10720 "mB" (I've got the free Halo Reach disk with the new update, too), yet only installs 6.7gb - to those that want to jump in and say that "that's because halo reach is only 6.7gb", I point back towards it telling you it's installing 10720mb to disk, yet doesn't.
I'm assuming that the value represents decimal value and not binary.
Rofl, nevermind seems someone already has xD
http://www.facebook.com/eve...
Though nobody has joined it yet xD
At the moment they're asking for help finding Sony stores - so they don't even really know where they're protesting yet, haha.
Additionally, how many "trendies" do you think have clicked "yes I'm attending" to look cool to their friends, when in actual fact they won't be going?, if it's like virtually every other major facebook event on earth, a good 50%.
Let's start a Facebook group, "OperationBravia" ;D
I'm planning on buying a second 3DTV soon anyway, may as well make it the 16th *highfive*
160 "Sony Style" stores worldwide, 621 Sony outlets worldwide, total : 581 stores..
781 stores, 1200 "activists", not even enough for 2 people at every store, can you imagine one kid in a mask refusing to leave a store because he's "protesting"?, yeah me too, I can also imagine how fast the police or security move him along once it's closing time.
Here's what you're going to see : 5533d ago 6 agree0 disagreeView comment
"Anonymous is staging a 24-hour, in-store boycott at Sony stores around world on Saturday, April 16. So far over 1,000 people have RSVP'd through Facebook."
Through... facebook.. way to go being anonymous guys.
So, my opinion is a lie, because your opinion isn't a lie to you?, that makes perfect sense.
To each their own I guess, though how you enjoyed The Fight: Lights Out more than Kung-Fu Rider is anyones guess.
Kung-Fu rider was pretty fun...
As a fellow games journalist, I sympathise with your situation, however in the past when this same thing happened to me
I simply stopped posting their videos online, I look at it this way, if I don't post their videos, it's them that suffers, not me.
I should also point out that in some cases they watermark a trailer with a specific sites logo (exclusive trailers), and in others there may be embargo's in place on the trailer - even if you don't watch t...
Demands are for kidnappers, terrorists, thieves and other such unpleasant folk, so rather fitting in a way, and also hypocritical when they claim not to be "internet terrorists".
It's not the movies, in real life if someone devices to be a vigilante, they're subject to the same laws as everyone else, and in most cases will find themselves behind bars.
Just because they hide behind internet aliases and do it through the internet doesn't make it an...
I've had a word with the devs (making my own game atm), great guys, excellent team, I wish them the best with this title, looks truly amazing!
(I'd say truly stunning but stunning has fallen out of favor at n4g! :P)
Most of the people Ddos'ing are just dirty pirates pissed that Sony shut down their access to PSN, to be honest.
"a group of internet vigilante hackers"
Surely you mean a group of talentless script kiddies thinking they're elite because they can paste a url in to LOIC and press the hivemind button, TOTALLY HACKERS right there, wow, that's gotta take some skills. >_>
Why exactly is this under PS3/360?
"Sony should just back the fuck off... and try to improve the PS3 security with better patches."
They have done so, hence why pirates and cfw users can't currently use PSN, and you'll note too that they're not actually attacking anyone who jailbreaks their machine, they actually sent out a polite email to everyone with a detected device/cfw, asking them to update or face losing access to psn.
The only people they're going after, are ...
Sony where DOS'ing another company, when?
Kids not allowed to mess with a Sony device, ever, and for the rest of his life the moment he employs, is employed, or has any help in any way, every single person he's in contact with becomes liable to his agreed settlement, so if anyone he works with or he himself, were to do anything at all, ever, to a Sony device, he would be fined $10k per instance.
Were he to release a code online again, it would come under distribution, for which the settlement would demand 250k pe...