Rampant Piracy May be to Blame for PSN Downtime

[Annieone23]

to add my two cents, I frequent psx-scene quite a bit and that definitely feels like a post Chesh would make to me. Im not prescient so I dont know, but I think it is him. Also he is a moderator, and psx-scene is very reputable + been around for ever. So if this is what they think, then I am pretty darn inclined to believe it. I used f*ckpsn and rebug though haha, hope im not banned. Never did the dev server stuff though, that is super recent and I dont care about online enough.

its amazing how fickle the ps3 homebrew community is. "I know I can conceivably never pay for another ps3 game again along with tons of other neat homebrew, but I cant play COD so the ps3 scene is dead and all the hackers suck and are in a conspiracy against us" is basically how it works. Now they are stooping as low as stealing PSN downloadables, thats low and also ruins it for all the legit ps3 people who havent updated yet want to use the psn from time to time. boo :/

 

[TheDarkSeed]

These are mere speculations and Sony should Squash these rumors and reveal more info on what happened. But as long as their name stays out of the flames of these rumors, they're not going to do that...

 

[Annieone23]

So true darkseed. This is all speculation, and nothing more. After reading your post I now wonder if the mere fact that Sony is content to have us speculating about every possible cause except personal Sony error means it might just be all Sony's fault! This is how conspiracy theories are born heh >.>;

The outcry that would ensue if this turned out to be Sony's own fault would be ghastly. Lucky I'm a Ninty fan and not a Sony fan cuz I would seriously be wondering about their company now. PS3 hacked wide open, PSN and possibly credit cards compromised, lost and ensuring lawsuits (which are costly either way) with everyone from LG to script-kiddies worldwide! Im surprised none of the "news" sites like Kotaku have posted an article questioning Sony's future, despite how baseless the claims. Even having nothing to base this off other than outsider observations, the evidence can lead to some pretty damaging lines of thought.

 

[Tonitonichopchop]

I'm really starting to wonder if Sony will make it in the video game industry.

 

[SamAsh07]

Lol, with all these "fun" events happening around with Sony, makes me wonder "Do they really deserve all this?" I know I hate them, but....

everyone has a soft point in their heart.

 

[NiGHtS]

This almost makes me wish I hadn't hopped onto the CFW bandwagon, and actually supported Sony.

 

[Hop2089]

Credit Card fraud is illegal and bad practice, not good at all. Piracy is one thing, getting free stuff from (insert piracy site here) is ok but fraud is uncalled for.

 

[jaxxster]

This sort of stuff is why the ps scene is such a fail! Its never been anything but piracy! Full of idiots like geohot and Math who do nothing useful at all!

 

[twiztidsinz]

This sort of stuff is why the ps scene is such a fail! Its never been anything but piracy! Full of idiots like geohot and Math who do nothing useful at all!

Huh? Care to explain?
Or are you just reading a bullshit story based on speculation and that is wholly wrong so you can erage over Geohot?

(Spoiler: This story (and story fits since it's made up) has NOTHING to do with Piracy despite the dumbass "author" of the article saying so.)

 

[Eckin]

blizzard had/has (I don't know if they fixed it, but it was up for more than a month) an exploit on their european site that allow/ed this kind of fraud. A lot of people got free crap on WoW and some legit games/keys from their site. They were informed about it less than a week after someone found out.

but you never heard about battle.net going down for a week to fix this exploit, did you?

 

[Rydian]

Credit cards aren't compromised. The guy's saying that Dev units weren't checked normally when making purchases, so they could put in bullshit credit info and still be granted a purchase, getting the stuff for free. This is NOT them using other people's credit cards.

Why Sony has to take the entire network down for days is likely not this single issue, this is just a catalyst, they're using this to take the time to restructure.

Also this.

Me: now that sounds very much like sony
Friend: yep, shut down the whole system because a small group of people can get stuff for free.

I'm not aware how many Dev units there are, but last I checked there weren't nearly enough in the wild (let alone owners of them that would actually do this) to count as "rampant".

 

[doyama]

The weird thing is on the actual forum, which I frequent, there's literally no mention of this. It's odd for a 'former' admin to talk about it while on the actual board itself for the topic to be silent.

 

[rad140]

So anyone who downloaded the Rebug cfw and figured out about the cc #'s was able to get whatever they wanted off of PSN?
Wow.

 

[jaxxster]

This sort of stuff is why the ps scene is such a fail! Its never been anything but piracy! Full of idiots like geohot and Math who do nothing useful at all!

Huh? Care to explain?
Or are you just reading a bullshit story based on speculation and that is wholly wrong so you can erage over Geohot?

(Spoiler: This story (and story fits since it's made up) has NOTHING to do with Piracy despite the dumbass "author" of the article saying so.)

Geohot does nothing if it doesnt somehow help him out in fame/money. Math just sits there going "haha you noobs havent hacked 3.60 when i've had it hacked the day it came out but i aint giving anything to the scene"

 

[.Chris]

Aw, I wish i had CFW now... I want "free" games!

Also, this: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

 

[twiztidsinz]

Aw, I wish i had CFW now... I want "free" games!

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[.Chris]

^

 

[Annieone23]

doyama, there was something posted there, and it was on the front page no-less. But it quickly disappeared, and I dont know why.

I frequent that site too, and its great for ps-scene stuff, but MAN they have the wackiest forum layouts and worst news submission policy. I liked it so much better when they had user-submitted news like this (AWESOME) site. Now its all cloak-and-daggers, whats news what isnt, and their isnt really a good place to discuss anything outside of specific ps3 homebrew problems. It sucks, in short.

 

[Chanser]

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/26/...k-and-qriocity/

 

[Rydian]

Ah, so the early rumors do seem to be true.

Point 2 is probably what's taking so long. Forensics like this can take ages.