Sony Attacked Anonymous And Immediately Regretted it

Sony started a war that they were thoroughly unprepared to fight.

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#hacker #2023 #anonymous

[wiliestrogue]

Right to OWN and right to REPAIR need to be fought for.

[AlterRaigo]

Corporations do not learn unless you hurt their wallet. $300k is a drop in the bucket for these megacorps, and barely a punishment. Anytime these corporate giants break the law, they should be paying billions of dollars by default.

[reprovedcandy]

Love how they sued the guy over a tiny, tiny unbelievably small loss of revenue and ended up losing a mountain of revenue because of who they pissed off. Perfect.

[Doggo_is_sus]

Imagine looking at a guy, alone, easily break your OS but instead of hiring him to make your OS better, you sue him and fail miserably.

[maximdecimus]

Ripping things open and rebuilding them to make them do exactly what you want is an unbelievably valuable talent to a society.

[MercuryKurogane]

It's wild that the courts allowed Sony to get the data of people who just wanted to support the man or just download his product. That seems like a such violation of any sort of privacy, like because you interacted with him or supported why he was doing his hacking should have pushed so many away from the company. That is a massive level of entitlement and I do not feel bad for anyone who thought that it was okay

[bobbobbob]

Sony's reach with that lawsuit was genuinely terrifying, being able to sue anyone who even just watched his video. How could anybody in their right mind uphold that kind of behavior? The mere fact that it was suggested and allowed in court is disgusting.

[Cosmicfury]

15:30 I love the idea that Anonymous is a group of people sitting at a circular table with their masks on just hacking constantly.

[pofok]

Sadly, this probably happened because the judge has no clue how electronics work. They hear "hacking" and assume it's illegal.

[leveldrow]

When corporations have more rights than a human being.

[jeremypilot]

Steve Wozniak is a legit good guy and knew his friend Steve Jobs had gone off the righteous path and put profit before creativity. Wozniak giving that young man the license to jailbreak the iPhone had to be the biggest middle finger to Steve Jobs.

[sunny-vega]

There's a reason games are pirated, they cost to much usually for those individuals. It's not lost money, it's money that was never there anyways

[neuroticnation]

They shouldn’t have sued him, they should have hired him.

[MrGamer]

The part about Sony granting access to all the people's info who supported him and the court allowing it reminds me of the time when Digital Homicide wanted to get all the info of the users who left a negative review on their games so they could sue all of them and take down their reviews. Luckily, Valve refused and banned the devs from their platform.

[Lord_Mad_Dog]

What's insane is after all that, Sony not only changed nothing, but basically doubled down on closed sourcing everything and getting even more trigger happy with their lawyers

[chrisxd]

SONY at the time thought they were dealing in absolutes. They were vastly humbled not just once by some kid, but a second time on a much larger scale by one of the largest hacker groups.

On a side note: I still can't get over how anyone can confidently claim how much money is lost due to piracy. No physical products were lost so there wasn't a monetary value you can confidently claim was taken.

[Zetornator]

the scariest thing is seeing how much info sony got from other big tech companies about a random person.

[fry_me]

Sony Entertainment attacked not only modders, programmers, repair specialists but also any who would download shared digital copies and also wanted to go after people from making backup copies of their purchased product and any company that provided the tools of enabling the copying of a paid for product. These people weren't just "protecting" IP. They used standover tactics like gangsters hiding behind a nondescript idea like DRM claiming it affected the artists when these people bound these same artists to cut throat contracts, NDA's and legal action. They tracked internet users, IP addresses and threatened to sue ISP's and the internet account holders even if they were unaware of a supposed downloading of content. Then they riled the wrong people and got whacked where it hurts them the most in Japanese culture; by losing face and being outplayed. Sometimes a more vigilante approach is the only way to curb corporate greed when the law can't or won't step in to protect the consumer from using a product they own they way they see fit. For the gamers....pffff.

[LRMo]

10:25 it's absolutely insane that Sony was able to sue a man for "computer fraud" and "copyright infringement" because he hacked a computer HE OWNED HIMSELF and shared code HE WROTE HIMSELF which would not run pirated software unless SOMEONE ELSE modifies it! 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[StormFive]

This is a masterclass in journalism. Thank you for putting this together.