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Sony Taking Down PSP Titles In Response To Vita Hackers
Carlos Rodriguez writes "The hacker community has found a way to make the Vita run unsigned code by exploiting weaknesses in PSP games available for download in the PSN store. In response, Sony has made the affected games unavailable for download for all platforms — PSP and Vita both — even if you had already paid for it and hadn't had the chance to download it yet. In the case of 'Everybody's Tennis', the game was removed from the PSN worldwide after the modder community bragged about the game being exploitable but before any exploit was released for it. Is Sony being too overzealous in its fight against piracy?"
Sony is hacked all the time because they're the only company to take a stand against piracy and mostly succeed (at least compared to Microsoft and Nintendo).
Ever since the GeoHot episode there has been a persistent campaign to smear Sony and attack their customers by remnants of #OPSONY , you know, the people who threatened to go after family and children of Sony employees, organized a completely unsuccessful boycott of Sony retail outlets, stole a hardware debug key and attempted to sell it off as a piracy enabler, then use it to attack users of the PSN network and knock it offline.
Meanwhile, we're into a full year of the Microsoft Live FIFA hack and hundreds (possibly thousands) of XBOX Live users having their credit cards used for fraud. The same company that knowingly sold a defective console for three years, charges a fee for their users to use an internet connection, fills their console with more ads with every update and deliberately degrades or disallows any third party media or hardware on their consoles.
Yet not a single verified case of a PSN user having their credit card or personal information compromised as a result of the PSN hack has come to light. Sony apologized for the downtime, offered free games and sucessfully locked down the PS3 once again (forcing the pirates to rely on old firmware of they wanted to keep their hacks).
And what has Microsoft offered it's users for the abuse they've suffered? Anything??
So when I see people talking shit about Sony, there's no doubt in my mind that they are either ignorant of the facts or shills working for Lulsec/Anonymous/4Chan or whatever piracy clique is popular now.