ThePirateBay is still online because they *don't* deal with piracy. They offer torrent files which have nothing to do with the copyrighted material. It's the Torrent users that break the law if the data they share is illegal.
Foxi4 said:ThePirateBay is still online because they *don't* deal with piracy. They offer torrent files which have nothing to do with the copyrighted material. It's the Torrent users that break the law if the data they share is illegal.
Too bad that fact doesn't hold up when going up against the billion dollar corporations... See ISOhunt.Foxi4 said:ThePirateBay is still online because they *don't* deal with piracy. They offer torrent files which have nothing to do with the copyrighted material. It's the Torrent users that break the law if the data they share is illegal.
Uh, the consumers? It may not affect those that don't use the PSN but I'm pretty sure those that do will be very pissed. Besides, this is a video game thread. If you're going to say that "It's just a damn video game, get over it.", then I don't think your in the right place. Also, it's not just ONE damn video game, it's all damn video games on the PS3 that you can't play online, and that's very important, to the consumers, to Sony, and to the people who hacked it.Jakob95 said:Who cares if people can't play online. Its just a dam video game get over it.
you can just bypass the US blockout with the crappy lite versionShadowSoldier said:Speaking of isohunt, you know that site doesn't work for me, at all. Years ago, it used to, it was even my favorite torrent site and I went to it like every day. But then they changed it a while back to test out some "lite" version or some crap like that. And since then, I haven't been able to view the site. It constantly loads, and it's rare that a page will load. And by load, I mean it's all broken. My friend who goes to it, who lives down the street from me, has no problem viewing it, it's stupid.
Joe88 said:you can just bypass the US blockout with the crappy lite versionShadowSoldier said:Speaking of isohunt, you know that site doesn't work for me, at all. Years ago, it used to, it was even my favorite torrent site and I went to it like every day. But then they changed it a while back to test out some "lite" version or some crap like that. And since then, I haven't been able to view the site. It constantly loads, and it's rare that a page will load. And by load, I mean it's all broken. My friend who goes to it, who lives down the street from me, has no problem viewing it, it's stupid.
http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
Your theory is out there but it might be true. If it's true. I think they're going to use this as a loop-hole to switch everyone to the new 3rd party servers (SNEA)they've been talking about without getting consent from the users.DarkLG said:We went from a topic about sony's playstation network shit to laws about piracy? wtf lol I think Sony just fucked something up and their blaming hackers for it to make them look bad =p
Who knows, I've seen so many posts that directly says the name of the sites (few mods), that I don't even know what that rule applies to now.zeromac said:Not to kill this off-topic discussion but isn't mentioning torrent and warez sites against the forum rules?
Which includes the cut on ps2 compatibility or OS cut?sinharvest24 said:I wouldn't necessarily say that they're greedy. Think about how much it cost to make a PS3 then factor in free online play and tell me how Sony is greedy. I don't think Sony is reeling in as much doe as Microsoft or Nintendo so they gotta do something if someone tries to take away or tamper their profits.Schlupi said:sinharvest24 said:Still don't get why people are hating on Sony...
Because they are greedy and flipped shit over their system having homebrew enabled.
"OMG HOMEBREW WE HAVE TO STOP IT"
If they were REALLY after piracy, they wouldn't have targeted Geo because he had NOTHING to do with the piracy that followed.
QUOTE said:We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online. Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure. Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security.
We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project. We will continue to give you updates as they become available.
Blatantly lying like this would not carry any favour. AOL once pulled this on us a few months ago. Our internet was out for a week and AOL refused to tell us why. AOL kept saying it must be our end as there were no line faults. This was crap, our router was completely fine. There were loads of other customers in my area having the same troubles. It was crap customer service. Basically: If they lie it will piss off a LOT of people. Also a fuck up wouldn't need an entire rebuild.DarkLG said:We went from a topic about sony's playstation network shit to laws about piracy? wtf lol I think Sony just fucked something up and their blaming hackers for it to make them look bad =p
Jamstruth said:Blatantly lying like this would not carry any favour. AOL once pulled this on us a few months ago. Our internet was out for a week and AOL refused to tell us why. AOL kept saying it must be our end as there were no line faults. This was crap, our router was completely fine. There were loads of other customers in my area having the same troubles. It was crap customer service. Basically: If they lie it will piss off a LOT of people. Also a fuck up wouldn't need an entire rebuild.DarkLG said:We went from a topic about sony's playstation network shit to laws about piracy? wtf lol I think Sony just fucked something up and their blaming hackers for it to make them look bad =p
What I reckon happened is some incredibly hacking group decided to orchestrate a large hack of the PSN. In order to cause the most disruption (and therefore most fun) they coincided it with the EU release of Portal 2 when a large amount of users would require the service to activate their Steam copies. Its far too much of a coincidence that Sony would fuck up on Portal's release.
As for the 3rd party servers. If they do perform the switch then they'll get user consent through a EULA update you must agree to to use PSN.