Sony's 'Lizard Squad' battered PlayStation Network staggers to feet Sony says it has beaten off the latest attack against its PlayStation Network – this time by the hacktivist group that calls itself the lizard Squad" – and insists all of the user information it stores is safe. "The networks were taken offline due to a distributed denial of service attack. We have seen no evidence of any …
"I dislike MS more on their boneheaded decision to push anti-secondhand DRM on their nextgen console. I actually consider that more of an unforgivable sin."
You're an idiot to want second hand games locked down. Not putting extra DRM on the Xbox One was one of the best decisions Microsoft have recently made. Second only to supporting MKV, and the biggest variety of codecs I have seen on a media player.
http://bgr.com/2014/08/12/xbox-one-update-mkv-dlna-streaming/
Shame that PS4 users will be crippled by Cinavia in the unlikely event that Sony unlock similar functionality. (The Xbox One BluRay player can be uninstalled....)
You're an idiot to want second hand games locked down.
You n33d to l34rn to r34d. What "push anti-secondhand DRM on their nextgen console" means es exactly that, the MS boneheaded decision to implement said anti-secondhand DRM. While they did do good on doing a U-turn on that decision, they did so after E3, and after they got curbstomped by Sony. And they had already lost at some exclusives which switched to "timed exclusives" instead of actual exclusives, like Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare.
So even though they backtracked on their stupid DRM decision, they still deserve to fail for even attempting to do that. That's what I meant with the unforgivable sin. The video games market must get the message: pulling such a stunt is a career-ending mistake.
Does anyone know why they are doing this? And why they think this will do anything other than put them in jail and/or annoy a bunch a people (who will forget in a month or two anyway)?
Seriously, when was the last time a company got hit with a DDoS attack acquiesced to the attack's demands?
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