I am all for creative people developing new content, expressing themselves, and finding new uses for tech. But Anon isn't doing this to open a door, they're doing this to be obnoxious, and because they can. Calling them "impressive"... well... Let's take a look at that word...

McCarthyism? Impressive.

Nazi Germany? Impressive.

Stalinist Russia? Impressive.

Iran-Contra? Impressive.

9-11? Impressive.

All of these events were amazing mobilizations of thought and deed. The efficiency and "success" boggles the mind. Lots of things, when viewed without a trace of morality, can be described by that word. But the fact is, when innocents are harmed they are still monstrous and unconscionable, and in no way excusable by any stretch of the imagination.

Please read the above sentences again, because I don't want anyone getting in my face and saying what these guys are doing is nothing like what happened in Germany or Russia or NYC.

I would never trivialize anything I have listed above. I'm pointing out that being "impressed" by these actions is perhaps not what you meant to say. I'm not "impressed" by these murderous, horrible events I listed above because they effected my life directly. I lost family to the Nazi regime, and I lost six close friends on the NYFD when a building fell on them and drove them and the Hook & Ladder engine they were in seven floors into the ground, not to be found for months and when they did, it was only parts. Not even enough to bury, of some.

Hacking a PS3 doesn't take a life (yet), but the truth is that a PS3 has a powerful enough processor that it could be used for something as atrocious as guiding an ICBM. We're not talking about that (yet), but what we are discussing here, is a rebel faction which will not free us but bring further sanctions and invasive control into our gaming lives, and perhaps further. They need your support but when the dust settles, you can bet dolloars to donuts you won't have theirs. By stirring this hornet nest for no good reason past perceived consumer fraud, they will increase Big Brother's hold, just as the 9-11 attack succeeded in hampering and out-right destroying any freedoms the American people still had with the Patriot Act. Bush and his reprobates swiftly used that disaster to gain a footing in further control and invasion of the common US citizen's life. So now, in order to fly on a plane you have to go through "personal inspections", being touched in places reserved for a lover, and even "low" amounts of radiation administered to your body so that a stranger can see your wife or daughter's naked body in startling detail. Security cameras watch your every move. Dogs sniff your luggage. Police are allowed new liberties for temporary "check stations" and spot-inspections to investigate your business in a given neighborhood without showing just cause... All they need is suspicion, which they already have in truck-loads. The terror attacks gave them this power, they wear it as a flipping badge of honor and they screw with people openly and without justification falling back on 9-11 to excuse their own criminal behaviour and snooping.

This doesn't bother the terrorist groups of the world one little bit. THEY aren't getting stripped, THEY aren't getting bombarded with radiation. And THEIR governing body isn't crushing down on them whilst calling it "protecting freedom".

Sony will take this attack and put a yellow ribbon on it, and hold it up as reason to hike prices, cut services, and generally muck the whole thing up for the consumer, calling it "protection". They'll take your rights away, and hand you **** calling it Chocolate.

We, the average consumer, are the ones who will pay for this fracas. Not the hackers. We're the ones who will have DRM to deal with, and inspections of our hard drives without our knowledge, and on and on... These hackers are giving Sony exactly what they need: A Boogie Man to point the finger at.

"Impressive" or not, these people are not your friends, they're extremely talented, bored, and starved for attention. They're hanging you out to dry, calling you and me "collateral damage" like they're in an action film... Treating it like a Holy War, when in reality, a lot of us don't WANT to be "saved" from the Big-Bad called Sony. We don't fear a video game maker.

We know there are much, MUCH more insidious things out there in the world.

MUCH. WORSE.

Why not help us out with the new Stalins, Hitlers, George W.'s? Why not put that amazing intellect to work on something that matters? Because at the end of the day, video games and home electronics just aren't that important. Not when the US detains world citizens without Habeas Corpus. Not when genocide and decades of brutal warlord control threaten Africa's future, and rightful place at the table of Global Economics. Not when...

... not when PEOPLE are suffering, and dying, for **** sake.

Respect to you and your families, all.

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MonkeySpot, are you an English major by any chance? :P

I tend to lose motivation around the 3rd paragraph but you, man, something else.

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*Deep Bow*

Thank you. I'm no thinker, simply a humble sound engineer with a typing hand that can drone on for hours (and I'm sorry, to those who bristle at seeing my name in a thread, knowing the King James Bible of text walls is coming to their discussion...)

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I want the tools to be in the right hands, to create a better tomorrow - Or just a better "Angry Birds" - For all of us in the gaming community. The problem I see here is that this group (or individual who wants friends but has to make them up) is jumping the wrong hedge, and urinating in the wrong bowl of Wheaties. And sacrificing us as a community pawn in their game of "Hey Look What I Can Do".

An open system of development akin to Windows 7 or Android would be a wonderful thing, as some folks like 'twenty have pointed out... And I agree. But the seperate issue of these hackers attacking Sony, muddling with PSN UK (if the problem is indeed them, and not just a coincidental occurance) does nothing for you and me, it just gets their name in print and makes them into something they're SO not; Celebrity.

Paris Hilton at least had the courtesy to get naked in order to get anyone to pay her some attention...

... these guys won't even pony up their real NAMES.

I have new respect for Ms. Hilton, after watching the cowardly actions and reading the pumped-up pony-loaf words of these two-bit punks.

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