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Howard Stringer talks why Sony is getting hacktacked

Posted Jun 28, 2011 at 2:01AM EST by Mabie A.

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Sony CEO Howard Stringer speaks out yet again in line with the continuing threats of security breach against their company. He is of the belief that they are being targeted by these hackers simply because they are adamant about protecting their intellectual property.

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Speaking at the company's shareholders' meeting earlier, he said, "We believe that we first became the subject of attack because we tried to protect our IP, our content, in this case videogames. These are our corporate assets, and there are those who don't want us to protect them, they want everything to be free."

Despite massive calls for resignation from irate fans all over, he continues to keep his feet firm where it is. Last month, Stringer also spoke out about the PSN breach, defending Sony against allegations of poor security. Just a few weeks prior to that, he also sent out an open leter to the public apologizing for the same.

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Did they have it coming? Sure. Does that make it ok? No. And if the objective was to punish Sony, I suppose it succeeded--they just had to punish all of Sony's customers as well.

Still, I think there's a lesson here for Sony. Everybody who deals in IPs tries to prevent piracy, but there's a limit to how far you should go. Once you have to start stepping on your customers' toes, it's time to just suck it up and deal with the piracy just like everybody else does. MS and Nintendo don't uninstall features that were included with the purchase price from their consoles. It's not like the piracy was all that bad: blu-ray burners and discs are still pretty expensive and ps3 games are so big that you can only fit a handful on a stock hdd so that means the piracy would be much more limited that it's been on the psp. No, this was about Sony's pride. Their console was supposed to be unhackable and when it turned out to be hackable, they couldn't deal.

I'm happy with how Sony has handled the psn hacking (I know everybody was complaining about how long it was down, but they needed to be sure it was as secure as possible so I don't mind that) and I thought their welcome back package was pretty generous, but it's not enough that I would ever be willing to do business with them again after all the crap they've pulled. No ps4 or vita for me. Hopefully other companies see their behavior as an example of what not to do.

# yup — Goragg 2011-06-28 20:03

I agree that when protection means impairment then that is no protection at all.
It kind of reminds me of the TSA.

# RE: RE: RE: Howard Stringer talks why Sony is getting hacktacked — umadbro 2011-06-28 21:23

but who are these hackers to determine when punishment should be doled out to companies and when the common consumer has to suffer from said punishment? Why is piracy something worth fighting for but not, say, unlimited bandwidth? or gay marriage? or state sovereignty?

I just can't get on board with these hackers - too bad, you gotta buy the game now... what did they expect when they bought the console...? what did you expect would happen to the other os function when you started using it to run code that would invariably allow pirated games to be played on the console? Everyone has a right to drive a car and modify as they like, but once you start speeding through red lights, parking in handicap spaces and start driving all over the sidewalk you better believe someone's going to take that car away from you and punish you. That's how society works without devolving into "gimmie-gimmie" and "FU IDGAF" culture.

# RE: RE: RE: RE: Howard Stringer talks why Sony is getting hacktacked — AssassinXCV 2011-06-29 02:43

Quoting umadbro:

but who are these hackers to determine when punishment should be doled out to companies

but who is sony to take away content that you paid for when you bought your ps3?

# RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Howard Stringer talks why Sony is getting hacktacked — Grey 2011-06-29 05:37

EULA and TOS. Believe it or not there is legitimate info in there that means something about the product you purchased.

# pf — Plaztek98 2011-06-29 15:51

Quoting Grey:

EULA and TOS. Believe it or not there is legitimate info in there that means something about the product you purchased.

which has been changed and modified to suit sonys needs when they wanted to change something

-1 # RE: Howard Stringer talks why Sony is getting hacktacked — chuck.fx 2011-06-28 06:55

i don't see why this should be an article

# ???? — randomxxx 2011-06-28 07:02

this is pointless like marbie a said this is not the only reason. i think it was because they were ticking off their consumers mainly the ps3 ones in many ways.

# RE: Howard Stringer talks why Sony is getting hacktacked — Walo 2011-06-28 11:05

if that were the only reason" a certain fruit company would've been hacked to the ground" a long time ago.

# RE: Howard Stringer talks why Sony is getting hacktacked — PS360 Owner1 2011-06-28 11:10

*facepalm*

# ... — Mickle 2011-06-28 12:11

A lot of companies are even more arrogant and lazy than Sony but sometimes there can be a kind of honesty in their dishonesty. but to me Sony's biggest problem is a simple lack of respect for their customers, not feeling they need to explain why they do things that directly affect gamers and at least MS and Apple know their customer base includes overreactive hackers and they seem to do a good job working around them, but Sony always think they in the right and always run over the problems so really it's all Sony's fault for not understanding the marketplace.

# lrn2grammar — Tommy Jae 2011-06-28 12:13

Like I said in the Schwarzennegger article, grammar is not one of your strong suits.

"...keep his feet firm where it is."

"Feet" is a word that conveniently refers to both FEET.
There are two of them.

Feet ARE.
A foot IS.

# RE: lrn2grammar — erod188 2011-06-28 18:47

this is a freakin news article not a spell and grammar check. mr. "lrn2grammar" what a model. Dick

# RE: Howard Stringer talks why Sony is getting hacktacked — AkaiOtoko 2011-06-28 16:14

There seem to be various reasons for being hacked. Anonymous probably did it because of OtherOS's removal and the suing of hackers, Lulzsec probably just did it for the lulz because they had a scapegoat(Anony mous).
All in all, it seems to be from Sony's poor handling of problems.

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