Greetings, Sony Customers And PS3 Users. We are Anonymous.

Greetings, Sony Customers And PS3 Users. We are Anonymous.

During the last few days, Anonymous has been targeting Sony for their outrageous treatment of not only PS3 users and jailbreakers, but also of the general public. Their propaganda regarding jailbreaking implies that it encourages piracy and thereby makes people lose their jobs, whereas jailbreaking actually just means you are making YOUR device do what it should do. Imagine if Microsoft forced you to use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox or Chrome. Imagine if they denied users from using any other web browser than their own. Many people would obviously be pissed... but then, why aren't you pissed at Sony?


The fact that their litigation demanded information on everyone who had viewed the material, was completely unacceptable. This is a threat not only to the gaming community, but to freedom of information in general. The fact that the privacy of individuals can be violated, simply for accessing information, and legal action can be taken for doing something with something you own, are steps far beyond the line. Anonymous decided it could not allow this to stand. If jailbreaking a phone for use of legal (unsigned) apps is found legal, why would this be any different for the Geohot case, seeing as Geohot explicitly states he does not support piracy?

Anonymous is not attacking the PSN at this time. Sony's official position is that the PSN is undergoing maintenance. We realize that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers.

Anonymous is on your side, standing up for your rights. We are not aiming to attack customers of Sony. This attack is aimed solely at Sony, and we will try our best to not affect the gamers, as this would defeat the purpose of our actions. If we did inconvenience users, please know that this was not our goal.
This operation is a response to Sony's attempt to deprive their customers of products they bought and therefore own, wholly and completely. Anonymous will not attempt to fight this by following the exact same course of action. We have plenty of tricks up our sleeves.

As a last point, we would like to point out that different operations are "run" by different people. Those who are involved in the organisation of OpSony, are not necessarily those involved in that of SonyRecon. Anonymous Operations are generally independent efforts, and it would be a mistake to assume that the same individuals are responsible for every action taken. Anonymous is comprised of people with diverse points of view, of which not all coincide with one another.

That being said, our campaign against Sony and others that would trample on the idea of free information will continue, until we are satisfied with the outcome.

We are Anonymous,
We are legion,
We never forgive,
We never forget,
Expect us.

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[wtfomgftp]

I bought my ps3 only a couple of months and now all its good for is netflix! fuck you punk ass hackers!

[Acex17x]

Anonymous' actions are completely justifiable. The lawsuit against Geohot was reckless and uncalled for. When you pay for something, it should be yours. And you should have the right to decide what you do with it.

[CoDmAn6677]

Anonymous are hacking ppl for a good reason. No joke. They r really the good guys

[JasonXxdt]

You inconvienced me.

[kamishiro27]

This is BS, and it is affecting the gamers out there!

[Niggerachi1101]

i believe in their cause, im joining

[mike200185]

if Anonymous was on people side why the hell they hack sony for oh wait cause they nothing but losers with no life and they cant get a date for sh1t people have cards on file on them ps3 and what dumb ass Anonymous hack sony and geohot shouldnt post a video for hacking the ps3 very smart man geohot what he got

[SuperSonnyboy18]

oh shut the fuxk up you stupip pussyies hacking sony read the back of every fucking thing its a fucking federal offense u have bo rights to do that who gives a shit if that is yours your fucking with there server getting money that doesnt belong to u fuck off stupid bitch get an xbox go hack that shit then wtf is wrong with you finally read there god damn user aggerment

[coopsta321]

@hydra706 there is a little more to this than a few weeks offline, get over it

[weapondrift]

The FUCK they are @Acex17x how does one person rightfully suing GeoHot over what IS illegal (hacking) justify the closing down of 77million peoples right to play. Fuck you Anonymous for your childish retribution.

[hydra706]

@coopsta321 no, i want to play online, how tht fanboy?