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Japan Says No To PlayStation Network Restart

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-in-my-house dept.

tekgoblin writes "Although Sony may be restoring services on the PlayStation Network around the world, one country has said 'No.' Japan has not yet given Sony approval to start up their online services, making the company wait until they have proven that they have taken the necessary measures to secure their network against another incident."

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  1. Bravo Japan! by cpu6502 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A government that actually does its job (protect the citizens' rights). Good for them.

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    1. Re:Bravo Japan! by somersault · · Score: 3, Insightful

      That's no excuse to be lazy about keeping up to date with patches, and apparently having no disaster recovery plan.

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  2. Kudos to Japan by Hultis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a very nice move by Japan - rather than bending their laws to maximize corporate profit, a disturbing trend, they do the absolute opposite and force Sony to take measures that protect customers (which will cost Sony quite a bit). Customers win, Sony loses. Excellent, they really deserved it!

    1. Re:Kudos to Japan by LastGunslinger · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Your logic would imply slavery is fine so long as the business employing it makes money. Profits are neutral. The methods used to make them are not. Neither the consumer nor the worker should be harmed so the company can profit.

  3. Bedfellows by Krazy+Kanuck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It says a lot when the country a company is headquartered in tells them their stuff stinks.

    +1 Japan for asking what everyone else lacked the sense to question.

    1. Re:Bedfellows by idontgno · · Score: 4, Informative

      This is certainly not something I would have expected of the Japanese government, although I'll admit I hadn't thought very much about it since the business-friendly era of the "bend-over-backwards and kiss business' butt" MITI. Of course, that was international trade, and this is about domestic business.

      I have the beginnings of a theory, though. The recent revelations about the government's virtually non-existent oversight over the nuclear power industry, and TEPCO in particular, may have sensitized the entire Japanese cabinet and bureaucracy to public perceptions of being asleep at the switch... hence, the surprising and almost-literal leaping to the defense of the public interest against a danger to network and financial security. (Yeah, comparing Fukushima to the PSN hack is ridiculous, except for the change in behavior of the government between the two events. Correlation != causation and all..)

      As a theory, it strains my credibility, and I just thought it up, but who knows?

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  4. Sony is claiming this is voluntary... by onlysolution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sony is saying that this is a voluntary effort to cooperate with Japanese authorities, as they are not actually legally obliged to wait for permission to restart their services in Asia.

    However, it's worth pointing out that in Japan it is common to allow companies and individuals to take "voluntary" actions to save face or prevent a public appearance of contention. There is also generally a greater public expectation of privacy amongst the Japanese, so their regulators are more less amused with Sony than American authorities.

    Make of Sony's voluntary claims what you will.

  5. Re:/. Hypocrisy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree. It's almost as if slashdot commenters weren't just one homogenous unit with a fixed opinion on each issue, but instead were a collection of individuals with differing views on any given subject.

  6. Re:Censorship by obarthelemy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    censorship is about preventing speech because of its content, this is about preventing a database of personal and financial details from going online because its safety is dubious ?

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  7. Re:/. Hypocrisy? by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps because the Japanese government is pressuring Sony to do more to protect user data, whereas the US government is pushing for companies to make it easier to access that data.

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  8. Re:Censorship by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 3

    Whose ability to speak is being suppressed?

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  9. When it's not a legal service by name_already_taken · · Score: 3

    Can someone remind me how can a government say "no" to someone operating a legal service again?

    When it looks like you're operating it in a way that does not comply with all of the laws.

    You can read into that the Japanese government believes that PSN is not a legal service in Japan if PSN does not protect the privacy of the users.

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