A very possible reason why Sony's PSN is still down
Makes you think who Sony are really trying to protect; their customers in the home, or the developers who are selling through them.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 18:04,
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This is all massive speculation
The other theory I've heard was that the update server may have been compromised as part of turning all the PS3s into a massive botnet (once you have control of the updates (the VERY hard part), not all that hard to do, just make them look somewhere else for new patches and the only thing Sony can do is to make everyone actually do something on the machine to fix it).
This is already enough of a complete fuckup without the extra theories flying around.
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Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sat 30 Apr 2011, 18:11,
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true enough
I've seen enough forums to see everything blamed, from Microsoft to Doctor Who for the PSN being down.
It's just that with this case, wouldn't the 3rd party developers etc be just a bit completely pissed if they knew Sony were aware of them allowing free software to be accessed by the hacked-ps3 community? Unless Sony sort this out (among all other probs they got) they won't be able to put the PSN back on.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 18:15,
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sounds like bullshit
whilst plenty of piracy happens, and always will, the people interested in it and able to take advantage of it, are fairly marginal. Compare this to the loss of revenue and face from making it unavailable to the VAST majority of users who wouldn't abuse the system either by morals or by knowledge, it's no way enough to make them take such evasive action. Sounds like some hackers just trying to big themselves up for the sake of it.
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 18:20,
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That makes no sense
If that was the case, why would you shut down the entire network and not just restrict access to the dev servers? Why take it down for so long? Sony's losses from not having the PSN Store up and running for the last couple of weeks would surely vastly outstrip any losses from the piracy scenario.
The botnet thing sounds far more likely to me. If you think the update servers are compromised you've got to do a massive code review to ensure that nothing got added on the sly.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 18:27,
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPc4JadvX7E
Oh look, a song I did about the PSN outage!
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 18:36,
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REBUG is a bitch to use
at least for the usual illiterate kids who just want to pirate games. It was a tiny minority of a tiny minority using the free games exploit.
The best thing about this whole fiasco was the glorious, phoenix-like ascendancy of UK:Resistance.
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Angry Boss Bee I love horses, death to other animals, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 18:49,
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cunty cunty cunt cunts
that's aimed at whoever is to blame for making Sony switch off what was a perfectly wonderful and free service for us normal happy to play games type people.
cunts.
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HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 19:03,
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hahahaha, is that the latest pile of shit being said about me?
I love this site. It's no wonder I get hate mail.
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HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 19:07,
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no mate
just having a larf re:our discussion. no one has said it about you - blimey, lay off the speed dude, it makes ya paranoid ;)
i could start a rumour that you have a "wedding dress" fetish, and that's why you were so into the royal wedding if you like?
(i knew a girl once who went out with a guy from where i worked, and she told me he had a wedding dress in the wardrobe which he told her he liked to wear occasionally while at home. nothing wrong with x-dressing imho, but still, he was a very manly man, stubbly, dark, chubby etc.)
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Avast is still alive!!!!, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 19:11,
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agreed
I was happy shooting random people in the head on RR Undead Nightmare. No more of that for the time being.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 19:09,
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the outside world beckons?
Holy polkadot underpants, batman!
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 19:33,
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I have an Xbox 360 and my online gaming is also free
admittedly I thought you had to pay for the Gold package at £5 per month so initally did that but apparently you don't although it was a monumental pain in the arse to get Microsoft to downgrade my account from Gold to the free service.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 21:03,
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PS3's suck ass
All of the games online are filled with sick & hateful kids who OD on Haribo and rape their mothers. I didn't want to have to share that with you but I've seen it, as I am one.
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haha you're a wrongun you are
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Sun 1 May 2011, 10:43,
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If that was the case (that they wanted to protect developers and stifle piracy)
why wouldn't they have come up with a better cover story than "all your personal details have been stolen".
Maybe with one saying... oh, I dunno... "we're trying to stamp out piracy and protect the intellectual property of our developers by taking the PSN network offline for a week or so. Please bare with us as we believe this is necessary and beneficial to the industry as a whole."
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 19:20,
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exactly
No, pretty lady, you can't come up to my flat for coffee... my kitchen is full of erm... dead bodies... yeah that's it... messy? no no, I'm just a mass murdered, a very neat one, I assure you.
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Sat 30 Apr 2011, 19:30,
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There is a back door so you can play online still
This allows you to play Black Ops online even tho PSN is down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=69s02spOSnk&annotation_id=annotation_769019&feature=iv
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