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Playstation To Restore Services This Week
iSimon19 writes with word that after last week's unscheduled service disruption and security breach, "On their blog last night, Playstation representatives announced they were restoring services throughout the week. This also included giving all users a month of Playstation Plus free, as well as select downloads for free with their 'Complimentary Offering and "Welcome Back" Appreciation Program.'"
Comon sony, a month of free Plus is worth $5
Bunch of morons.
I want 1 year free plus, or 1 free legit main game.
bunch r-tards.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Better would be some kind of detailed explanation of how the hell this could have happened in the first place, and what they have done to make sure it won't happen again...
it started with sony removing other os
Will be paid for by a random credit card number.
....by cheaters and trolls on free online multiplayers but compared to all the bureaucracy and hassles and risks of PSN and equivalent networks, the jungle of free games comes up better in the end.
1. fire up game
2. choose nick and server
3. Enjoy a quick game where the most skilled prevail (not those who have invested more money/time).
Does anyone else have a hard time believing the majority of the comments on the blog post are real? They're all along the lines of, "Hallelujah, Sony is wonderful for getting the service back up!!!!!!!" Or are people so desperate to go back to playing CoD multiplayer that they're willing to take any sandpaper-wrapped anal raping that Sony will give them?
From the press conference:
The web server was cracked through a known exploit - in other words, it wasn't patched.
Passwords were NOT encrypted.
The credit card data WAS accessed. It was encrypted, and the crackers MIGHT not be able to use it.
I'm not going to go back to the PSN until Sony gives me a year of credit monitoring and the ability to sue them (not that I would, but thank you SCOTUS).
FUCK SONY!
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving company.
(damm shame the fallout is going to hit the customers of sony instead of sony itself... but hey.. that's the risk you take being a customer to one of the most dickish companies on the planet.)
There are two outcomes.
People remember, they ignore the fact that the PS3 had no games for a long time after its expensive launch. They remember how Sony treated their consumer base like shit. Sony's litigiousness and actions with GeoHot et al.
People forget, fork over $800 so they can play MGS5.
The latter is the most likely yet suicide inducing. The former would be ideal. Also Konami decides to pick up the Playstation brand, they develop PS4 and do everything better than Sony.
You can download some games for free, but you must remain a PSN+ member to keep playing those games. So in reality they're offering you a free month of a service they expect you to keep paying for. Would be much more impressed with a year of free PSN+
From the Blog Post: "The company is also creating the position of Chief Information Security Officer"
Translation: During this difficult time, we have discovered that we have no security on our network and no one to blame for this. We will now have someone to blame and publicly humiliate when (not if) this happens again.
Hand the plebs a few trinkets and beads and hope they forget quickly how we compromised their privacy and opened the huge can of worms for them.
Gee, Sony, a bit more innovation! Especially since this can is heaps bigger than the last one!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
When is the US consumer ever going to learn that the credit card is one of the worst inventions ever! Of course it's Sony's fault but you are using a broken system. Make direct online banking the standard, not some insanely insecure card or some horrible third-party service like paypal. Here in The Netherlands we Have iDeal We need to get to such a system on a global scale. The tech is there and it's more secure, so what the hell are they waiting for.
The only card I used with PSN was one that is now expired and from a closed account.
This incident, however, ensures I use PSN points cards for any future PSN purchases.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
Free Kool-aid?
So...um...to get the "free" Playstation Plus and "Complimentary Offering", would I have to give them my credit card number?
Heh I called it (as one of many) in a post in the other thread a few days back. Now we're just waiting for Sony's total immunity from the lawsuit.
Geohot unlocks the hardware code? "Destroy his credibility!".
Sony leaves open millions of credit cards? "Have a free month of service!"
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I dont own a PS3, but my psp is unable to log into the PSN facilities too, which sort of annoyes me (or in case of the PGP-GO owners, completely blocks them from buying new games at all)
I wonder if us PSP owners will also recieve some compensation for the loss of service, and worse, the leaking of our private information
People, what a bunch of bastards
The PSN+ month free offer is worst than a them offering customers a gift card. It comes as absolutely no loss to Sony offering this because it's just a way to ensure and wrap more people into their revenue stream. I liken the move to something more of a casino comp in that they'll lure you in with a shitty buffet so you can piss away more of your money on some false hope.
I'll pass on their token gesture, scripted apology, and boneheaded-ness of connecting with the customer.
Never underestimate the stupidity of fanboys in great number.
More accurately: never underestimate the left-hand side of the bell curve. It tends to explain a lot of things in the general population's behavior.
that would mean another court would have to be established - perhaps one actually comprised of the people, one that works for the people.
Such a court exists in theory; it's called the ballot box. Three-fourths of state legislatures can call conventions and propose and ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, due to MPAA-owned news networks' influence on public perception of candidates in debates, especially at the primary level, elections are just as corrupt as every other branch of government.
you must remain a PSN+ member to keep playing those games.
Which differs from the business model of Netflix in exactly what way?
The OP is modded flamebait, but he's actually posting a VERY relevant point. Sony is a shady company with a repeated history of bad decisions and anti-customer practices. There is a very easy way to avoid these types of things: Stop paying Sony to spit on you!
Actually, it started with me when my Sony home theater system broke. I sent it to them, they kept it for over SIX weeks, and when they sent it back, it was STILL broken the same damn way it was when I sent it to them to start with, but with a nasty scratch down the left side. So I sent it back again, and after several more weeks, it finally arrived, this time actually fixed. Or so I thought. A few months later, just after the one-year warranty period expired, it broke yet again. I called Sony, and they refused to fix it again without me paying for repairs, even though they had the thing in their possession over two of the twelve months of the warranty period. Instead, I took the damn thing to a recycling center.
A few months after that, my PS2 broke. It was well out of warranty, around five years old. I don't know what the useful life of a PS2 is supposed to be, but I'd hope it's more than five years. Under normal circumstances, I'd normally chalk it up to crappy luck and not be too mad about it, but since I'd just been through my home theater system ordeal, yeah, it really pissed me off. (That's mad, not drunk, for you Brits.)
Then the root kit fiasco hit shortly after that. Then my computer's Sony DVD burner stopped working. By this time, I had sworn off all Sony products. I think I remember an article hitting Slashdot around that time frame about Sony USB drives being infected as shipped from the factory. Then there was the Blu-ray shenanigans. Then there was the Other OS thing. Then the GeoHot lawsuit.
So yeah, the PSN thing didn't affect me at all. I'm convinced that it happened because of Sony's lax security practices, and it couldn't have happened to a scummier company. Personally, I think that any Slashdot reader who was affected by this is a damn fool and practically deserved it. I've told all of my friends and family about Sony, and most of them avoid the company, too.
My suggestion to everyone here is to stop accepting being butt raped by this company. Don't just post here about how sad/amused/mad/whatever you are, help spread the word. Post these headlines on your social network. If you're reading Slashdot, your geek cred is probably pretty high in your family and circle of friends, TELL people to avoid Sony. Only by putting them out of business once and for all, or impacting them enough to make them make significant changes, will they ever shape up or ship out.
Here is the info about the USB incident I mentioned above. It wasn't a virus, it was another root kit-like software being distributed with MicroVault fingerprint scanner software.
If you guys want to watch the full video of the press conference including the Q&A period you can do so by clicking on the link @ http://gaming.operationreality.org/2011/05/01/playstation-network-and-qriocity-coming-online/
Godamn. Lookit this post. Sperg much?
They are a business, why else would they be doing anything if not for profit?
The only sane thing to do in the event of a network intrusion is to disable access as throughly as possible until you can fix it.
Make them lose money. Sony sells over price products. I been in boycott since 2005.
What do you have against Netflix?
Nothing. It's just that Netflix is not for everyone, just like medications are not for everyone. Some Netflix fans on Slashdot post comments to articles about having canceled cable TV in favor of Netflix and imply that everyone else should do the same. They appear to be under the impression that no live programming is worth watching.
Personally, I don't believe Sony has to compensate anyone. PSN is free, you pay for the console (which still works without PSN), you pay for the games (which still work [for the most part] without PSN). You are not required to connect your credit card to your PSN account. So far there has been no proof that any credit cards have been compromised, and it costs you nothing to replace them if you're truly that worried about it. If you're smart you don't use the same password for any of your online accounts, so the fact that they have your password should mean nothing to you. Once PSN goes back online everyone will forget about this and go back to playing their various video games. If you're really that upset about this, then leave. Sony already got your money for the console and games you bought. ps. I am not a Sony fanboy, I am not an Xbox fanboy, I play 90% of my games on PC and the other 10% split between xbox and ps3. I'm just tired of hearing these empty threats and over reactions.
What I hated about PSN from the start is that they demand we enter a credit card number just to be able to use the service. I really see no need for any site outside of financial institutions to need to store credit card information - in my opinion this practice should be made illegal. My bank has recently started offering the facility (through Visa) of generating one time card numbers with fixed limit caps - and you can choose your own expiry date. If Sony are still insisting on card numbers - they will be getting one of these generated ones from me.
Still not enough to make me upgrade my PS3 from 3.15
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Where "fool me" = "get me to trust you when you don't take security seriously".
Please assume the party escort submission position
Please assume the party escort submission position
Drop pants, grab ankles, and give a hearty cheer for PSN security practices
A 1 month free trial of a service I won't use :( This doesn't make up for the $15 I had to spend to change my credit card number!
As a minimum, Sony should be giving credit to your account the equivalent of the cost of changing your credit card number over for each country for those people who have their credit card details on their network. Then those funds could be spent any means the user prefers. Whether that is games, movies, playstation plus etc.
A work college has a PS3 unit. Just recently (Before the outage) he said he ran an update on his ps3 (He's not very technical - So no hacks on his system).
On reboot - The HD wouldn't boot & he can't even use his ps3 now. Upon enquiry to sony (Australia) he has to fork out ~200 for repair which has only 3 month warranty. [We are not sure if the HD has actually failed or if the firmware update failed somehow.]
I told him, Considering you got to play about 10 different games on his PS3 compared to the hundreds on his old PS2 (Which never actually failed) - The PS3 has been a lemon as far as he's experienced. And an expensive lemon at that.
I also mentioned the Wii 2nd generation will be out next year. Looks like he will be putting his money into a new wii gen2 rather than repair a LS3 (LemonStation3).
They're giving free things to everyone that are separate from the 30 days of PSN+.
Old one was pulled. Here's a new one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDCV00ErEs ... :)
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Is that like the Aperture Science Bring Your Daughter to Work Day? 'Cause we all know how that turned out.