'Anonymous' Plans Sony Boycott On April 16 260
Here's an excerpt from PCMag:
"Say you're a hacker trying to cripple a major electronics company for suing its own users: how do you launch a cyberattack without harming the people you're trying to protect? In the case of hactivist group 'Anonymous,' which has spent the week targeting Sony to retaliate against Sony's ongoing lawsuits against PlayStation 3 modifiers, you take it offline.
Anonymous is staging a 24-hour, in-store boycott at Sony stores around the world on Saturday, April 16. So far over 1,000 people have RSVP'd through Facebook."
Sony has stores? (Score:3, Funny)
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Yes, but nobody actually buys anything there: The sony stores all charge MSRP for sony devices. They're just there to show off their televisions, overpriced surround-sound systems and plastic Macbook knockoffs, so that other retailers can sell things under MSRP and look like they're giving you a deal....
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usually near the big cities with 1mil+ populations.
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27 in the US. Mostly along the coasts. I live probably a good 1500 miles from the nearest one.
And a lot more than that in Europe. Finland alone has nine of them [sonycenter.fi], six in or near Helsinki (metro pop. 1,300,000), and one each in Tampere (region pop. 300,000), outside Turku (region pop. 250,000), and in Kuopio (region pop.100,000).
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Seriously? There are like, 70+ in Canada. I think there are four in my metro area alone (~1mil pop).
Avoid RL (Score:2)
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Right start, but I think you missed the finish.
"Ooh - I know this one! Let's get every member of Anonymous to show up, then we can take pictures of the participant all smiling, and post them to Facebook where we can tag them and ... uh... "
These guys should avoid doing real life events ... because then they wouldn't be Anonymous anymore would they? In fact it shows how fragile the fight to keep anonymity is with mega-billions all pouring into tracking initiatives both gov and private ... and naive Web 2.0
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To avoid your silliness for a moment, Sony has several orders of magnitude more than 1000 customers.
One thousand annoyed persons is a drop in the bucket for most companies, anyone who works technical support would know that.
Most importantly, if you're going to attack someone, make it the judicial system. Sony filed suit, its the courts who allowed it. The courts in good old America are the legal barrier here, not Sony. I would expect nothing less from any other company -- sue the guy who possibly stomped
Boycott? (Score:5, Insightful)
A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.
sit-in == protest. boycott == protest. and yet, boycott != sit-in.
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Erm, don't you need to *not* show up at a store in order to boycott?
This plan is fail at all levels.
If you're in a store and have demonstrated you have no intention of actually buying anything, you're just loitering. The store would be completely within their right to have you removed by police for trespassing or for being a possible shoplifter. And good luck staying "anonymous" once the police start asking for identification when they get there.
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Yeah. I find this an amusing "boycott" as well. Is it productive as a "protest"? I cannot say. I hope that a crowd at Sony doesn't simply draw a bigger crowd. "Ohh.. may as well pick up some headphones while I'm here!!"
BTW, your use of "==" confuses equivalency with implication. Change "==" to "implies, and "!=" to "does not imply", and you are golden.
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Anonymous is staging a 24-hour, in-store boycott at Sony stores around the world
Also, I'm pretty sure the Sony Stores aren't open 24 hours...
And even if they did, anyone stupid enough to move their protest from the public street into private property is goin to get their ass arrested. Criminal charges to protest a civil lawsuit. Clever.
Boycotts are legal (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm still not going to sign anything associated with "anonymous." That's just asking for trouble. But before anonymous started making headlines, I have been vehemently against Sony and its products and my history shows it. I just hope this boycott catches on. Sony needs to be taken down a notch.
Damn you brainless consumers!! Don't you know that Sony is bad?
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I'm not signing up but I'm boycotting. Of course, it's more of a de facto boycott, because I don't really own any SCEA products or things that use SCEA products. The closest thing I've come to owning an SCEA product is watching an LP of God of War and going with a friend of mine to buy a Ratchet and Clank game... used. I suppose I still have Playstation games for my PS1... but that is no longer functional.
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Sony is just a company out of many. There are others who are far more important or evil...
There are still many murderers and rapists on the loose in the streets. Should the police just drop everything else and concentrate on the most evil crimes?
I may not agree with Anonymous' methods, but at least they're doing something instead of just complaining about how there are greater evils out there in the world.
Re:Boycotts are legal (Score:4, Interesting)
Not to mention that nobody else is producing consoles that were purposely possible to hack around on using Linux.
OtherOS was disabled shortly after GeoHot posted on his blog that he'd used OtherOS to figure out a way to bypass the system protection.
Which is evil? Microsoft and Nintendo for making a heavily restricted console that never came with Linux, or Sony for offering it then taking it away when it was abused? Last I checked, I bought a PS3 specifically to support Sony for being so open minded on the PS2 and PS3 as to include Linux support at all. Also for not restricting which USB devices or hard drives I use with their products and sticking to open standards instead.
Do people even do their research anymore? No. They just all jump on a stupid band wagon like somehow Sony Music == SCEA. Just a hint: the PS3 *allows* the ripping of CDs to non copy protected files. They're totally different divisions.
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Do people even do their research anymore? No. They just all jump on a stupid band wagon like somehow Sony Music == SCEA. Just a hint: the PS3 *allows* the ripping of CDs to non copy protected files. They're totally different divisions.
That's not just lack of research, that's complete failure to understand how sizeable businesses work.
Hint: With few exceptions, many (maybe most) sizeable businesses contain a number of broadly independent units that are free to make their own decisions and the only reporting they have to do to the very top is to show how much money they've made. It's actually pretty rare for them to all have to toe a particular party line - it's certainly not unusual to find that the only common thing between a number of
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Xboxes are severely hacked. How many customers has Microsoft sued? Zero.
Wiis have a homebrew channel. How many Wii users are kicked off the network or sued?
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Last I checked, I bought a PS3 specifically to support Sony for being so open minded on the PS2 and PS3 as to include Linux support at all.
And they explicitly removed the Linux option, which was one of the reasons you bought the device.
Also for not restricting which USB devices or hard drives I use with their products and sticking to open standards instead.
Check your User Agreement for the PlayStation Network. You are only allowed to use Sony approved and licensed devices.
I switched from a 360 to a PS3 about a year ago, but decided I've had enough. From the Gestapo tactics against Geohot and anybody he may have associated with, to not being able to use the speaker out on my monitor when renting a movie, to stupid User Agreements that run on for pages and pages lon
ObFuturama (Score:2, Insightful)
Bender: Hear me, hear me! Stop eating Popplers! Stop eating them with honey mustard sauce......stop eating them with tangy sweet and sour sauce. Stop eating the new fiesta Poppler salad. Stop taking advantage of the money-saving 12-pack. Stop enjoying Popplers on the patio, in the car, or on the boat. Wherever good times are had! Ow!
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I'm not sure this is nearly as applicable. For market leaders in mature markets, publicity isn't necessarily to gain relevancy, but to stay relevant. "Any publicity is good publicity" only really applies to small companies trying to gain consumer mindshare. The Sony brand has enough consumer mindshare that I'm pretty sure the only direction left for them to go is down. And, they have sufficient competition that the competition can use the negative to promote their own products.
For example, Nintendo or Micro
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The proper phrase is "For all intents and purposes"
Don't say: For all intensive purposes | Do say: For all intents and purposes
Comment: The younger generation is mispronouncing this phrase so intensively that it has become popular both as a mispronunciation and misspelling.
--http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html
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Flied right above your head, didn't it ?
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I didn't even mention that the rest of it is all wrong. Heh. It's a weird joke I suppose.
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Woosh.
As opposed to all extensive purposes (Score:2)
If only Sony could get pictures or video of it... (Score:2)
So let me get this straight. A group whose primary strength lies in maintaining an air of mystery and anonymity on the internet is going to stage a real-life sit-in boycott.... in the stores of a company which makes and/or sells a significant amount of image and video recording equipment. Much of which is on-display and functional in said stores, or otherwise easily accessible. And they're warning them about this beforehand.
Oooooookay...
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Sony owns Rickroll and Fresh Prince (Score:2)
most wore masks, usually also blasting Rick Astley or Fresh prince music
Guess who owns RCA Records [wikipedia.org], the label that both Astley and Will Smith were on at the time.
WTF??? (Score:2)
Boycott it only on that day? Wouldn't that make them plain old hypocrites?
Call me old-fashioned but shouldn't Sony products be avoided anyway if there's a reasonable alternative? ...).
Hidden stuff (e.g., LCD panels) is a different story, similar to products where Sony is involved as shareholders. But at least try to avoid Sony-branded stuff (TV, laptops,
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Shouldn't everyone be buying Sony products at various retailers, opening all the packaging, and then returning the complete items? This would cost Sony and their retailers a great deal of money. This erases profits on Sony merchandise and causes triggers on return rates which get Sony products booted from retailers.
I mean, if you are going to do something, at least make it effective.
Sony Music (Score:2)
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show up ask dumb but plausible questions, use up resources but don't buy anything.
I protested with my wallet too... (Score:2)
One Day Boycott? You pusses. (Score:2)
After the Geohot site visitor account rape-age I'm on a one decade boycott of all Sony products.
But from RTFA, it looks like this is more of a sit-in. I guess Anonymous are all too young to know what a 'sit-in' is.
Sony? (Score:3, Interesting)
This may be a silly question, but who still buys Sony anyway?
They're constantly trying to shove their expensive, non-standard shit down everyone's throat, leaving you with devices whose removable memory costs several times more than the standards everyone else uses.
I understand that the Playstation 3 has some great games, but why support a company that's consistently more interested in building an empire than working with its customers?
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Developer qualifications for PS3? (Score:2)
[Sony Computer Entertainment] have in fact been more open with their console then Nintendo or MS has.
How? It'd be one thing if Sony had a direct counterpart to Xbox Live Indie Games, allowing anybody to make games, run them on the console, and submit them to the console's official market. But I haven't even been able to Google up the developer qualifications for the PlayStation family platforms (this press release [eventnewscenter.com] mentions two sites that are down at the moment), and I see no reason to believe they're materially different from Nintendo's [warioworld.com]: you have to have a corp or LLC with a dedicated office, and it has to
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I frankly don't trust the submitters in this thread much further than I can throw them. The universal support for Sony smacks of paid astroturfers. Fake grassroots is part of their modus operandi, so I'm inclined to believe all of you are actors.
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How has Apple and Facebook broken the law? Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. Sony, among other things, actively destroyed people's computers with their rootkits (and how you can classify something like that a 'mistake', I have no idea...)
I'm not aware of Apple or Facebook doing anything genuinely criminal. They're obnoxious companies, for sure, but I'm not aware of them doing anything that would have gotten a normal person jail time.
Potentially a whole lotta nothin' (Score:3)
Theory on who is behind Anonymous... (Score:2)
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Okay, some really good comments here down the page, like yours.
First, Anonymous is going to get stuck in a lexico-logical trap in that the word "Anonymous" is like trying to count on a finger - you can't even parse the results grammatically sometimes. "(Some members of) Anonymous organized the boycott, but (other members of) Anonymous disagreed."
Above your comment, poster said that at the moment Anonymous did manage to gain just the barest bit of credibility. They've moved up that scale from "first you igno
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Are Public Protests Effective in 21st Century? (Score:2)
Great that some are committed at going after Sony through public protests. But do such protests really work? Or are they just public spectacles that get lost in the mass-media 24/7 news cycle...
Civil disobedience at a large enough level can be effective, such as so many people breaking the speed limit that finally the U.S. Federal mandated 55MPH limit was repealed in the mid-1990s.
However, it seems few people really care about DRM to go out of their way to knowingly break the law, let alone do so publicly.
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Opps, should have used preview first ... wrote "Not sure what the answer is ..." twice. With that said, despite the poor grammar, that repetition emphasizes the helplessness / hopelessness many feel these days.
Ron
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The Playstation3 lets you rip your CDs to unprotected high quality AAC files on the hard drive, then transfer them to external storage of any kind by USB. Last I checked, the only DRM the PS3 cares about is the games they sell for it.
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If you say so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia [wikipedia.org]
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And this proves what exactly?
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It contradicts the parents statement that "the only DRM the PS3 cares about is the games they sell for it".
TV-B-Gone (Score:2)
Just throwing this out there, I'm not available to go do this myself, but a TV-B-Gone or similar "universal TV turner-offer" device would be useful for this action. Even if you're not visibly obviously "doing protesting", you can help Sony reduce their carbon footprints by turning off all their store display TVs for them.
Nice to see they know the real enemy! (Score:2)
Here in California was basically have organized crime for a state government, but, yeah, Sony is such a big menace to me and mine.
Joining my boycott, eh? (Score:2)
I had an incredibly bad customer service situation back in the early 2000's with Sony.
I have not bought a Sony product since. It's never been a challenge to find an equivalent product or do without for a while til one became available.
I know it's a bit irrational- but it's my money and their customer service was unhelpful and then rude. I don't need to give money to a company like that.
lol (Score:2)
>Anonymous
>Facebook
lol
Old News (Score:2)
I have deliberately not purchased any Sony products since the Rootkit fiasco of 2005. Up until then, Sony was a trusted, quality brand for me and I had quite a few Sony gadgets around the place. No longer.
So I'm going to "sit out" instead.
Gamers & Boycotts (Score:2)
Good luck [blogspot.com].
Stick it to them! (Score:2)
Yeah! Stick it to the Man, Anonymous! Show those Sony bastards that--
Ooh, 10% off and a free t-shirt if I pre-order Infamous 2. Done and done!
Not another penny for Sony (careful of the movies) (Score:2)
My boycot (Score:2)
I may have
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Re:i've been boycotting before anonymous... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Doesn't sound like much, but that will be enough to quadruple the in-store crowds around here.
I can't walk by the Sony Store in the local mall without comparing it to the Apple store a few steps away and guffawing at how far Sony has fallen from relevance. If it weren't for their gaming division, they'd be no different from Generic South Korean Electronics Co., Ltd.
And if gamers would just stop giving them money the company might actually be forced to take stock of its own behavior.
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People who witnessed them in their heyday in the 80's and 90's might still base their comments on past reputation, but anybody keeping up with the
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No they are not. Japan is still the largest consumer electronics manufacturing country in the world. Japan is bigger than Sony. Japan has Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, NEC, JVC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Canon, Pentax, Nikon, Sanyo and others.
You also have to remember that the Korean companies are conglomerates, and their activity include things like shipbuilding, chemicals and even clothing. That is not to say that the Korean haven't been competing harder. They have.
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But in any case, no, I'm talking about the electronics divisions (which are separate companies in their own right), not the conglomerates as a whole. Presently Japanese electronic firms are being forced into deals with taiwanese companies or being forced to look for new products types in order to compete, they still retain some reputation from the 80's and 90's but in todays world they're not the leaders of the pack, cost or quality wise.
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So assuming that most of stores have only 1 or 2 people in them, so we need on average 5 people per store to quadruple the number of people in the store ... that means they can only do that in 200 stores with 1000 people ... and while I've not been in a Sony store ... I'm pretty sure that if they only have 1 person on average in them, they'd probably close them down pretty quickly to stop losing money. So while 1000 people might be able to make a difference in your area, they aren't all in your area, thats
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You sound like a shill because the PS3 is not open. Not anymore, if you're running PSN that means you have upgraded and lost the OtherOS feature.
3D? seriously? 'Sony has delivered'?
Do you work for NMS?
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You sound like a shill because the PS3 is not open. Not anymore, if you're running PSN that means you have upgraded and lost the OtherOS feature.
He sounds like a customer who is satisfied with what the PS3 Slim has to offer.
The PS3 Fat has been out of production since 2009. There have been seven firmware upgrades since 3.21 in April of last year.
In April 10 of this year, about 7 of the top 25 bestsellers in video gane hardware and software at Amazon.com are games for the PS3.
The PS3 is "closed" to the OtherOS.
But it is "open" to the 1080p Netflix stream with theater surround sound. The MOVE controller, sterographic 3D and so on.
Features which a
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You sound like a shill because the PS3 is not open. Not anymore, if you're running PSN that means you have upgraded and lost the OtherOS feature.
3D? seriously? 'Sony has delivered'?
Do you work for NMS?
Yeah someone must be a shill for being perfectly satisfied that their games console works as intended.
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Re:i've been boycotting before anonymous... (Score:4, Interesting)
Would this, by any chance, be the same DMCA that's been decried from the very start as a Corporate lobbied removal of existing liberties?
My, I think it just might.
GeoHot happened to disagree that a corporation has the right to dictate what you can or can't do with an item you've purchased, so he worked out how to do whathe wanted on his own machine.
Now, he distributes that knowledge to a variety of people who are interested in doing the same. Personally, I'd love the ability to have the 'Other OS' functionality back on my PS3. I put my money where my mouth was in supporting the idea that it should be there (I hadn't really been much interested in purchasing a console, but I liked that a corporation would open up a console for the home brew/enthusiast crowd; the very same ideals I had when I was a kid/teenager in the 70s and 80s), and thought 'hell, I can play a game or two on it to justify the spend, and it'll be good to reward a company for even attempting to do something slightly enlightened in this age of trying to lock everything down and out. More than anything, I think I was disappointed in Sony execs. It was a dishonourable thing to do (strike a deal, then renege on it). Western companies, sure I can see them doing just that, but acting with dishonour in the Japanese culture?
Wow.
Still, I find your argument that we should all cheer on Sony because they choose to charge someone under an unethical law for attempting to regain his side of a deal that was struck at the point of payment to be a little naive.
I bought the console simply because it gave me options to do A and B.
After I buy, the company decide that now they only want me to do B. I can do A if I want, but they'll prevent me doing B for as long as I choose to do A.
Should I ever choose to do B, then I can never do A.
Someone works out a way to do A and B again, and the company immediately drag them to court.
Personally, I'd cheer anyone on who attempts to get me my original deal back again. GeoHot did that. So I applaud him for it. Yes, he's in court for his own actions, but that doesn't mean I'm on Sony's side in this; I find their dealings with me to be dishonourable. I consider the DMCA to be unethical.
Really, the USA has fallen a long way, and I somewhat suspect the idealists who started the American war of Independence would be spinning in their graves.
There was an unfair levy placed, and a stripping of liberty on the country, so they threw a whole load of tea into a harbour, and were remembered for centuries as heroes who started a rebellion. I'm a Brit, and I'm pretty much an "establishment" person. I'm still behind the guys who did this all the way.
I wasn't behind the DDOS and compromising of companies. I am behind the peaceful civil unrest of people turning round and saying "this is unjust", and spreading the message. I'm pondering taking part myself, and calmly explaining to people that anything they buy on features could suffer exactly the same fate, and that the company now has an established track record for dishonouring their point of sale promise of functionality.
Personally, I really hope the media takes this and runs with it. It'll be interesting to see how much of a PR hit Sony takes with this one, and how it starts to affect sales at time of austerity, where everyone wants to be able to rely on their vendor.
No, I don't want to see Sony fail. But I want them to understand that actions have consequences, and their action in removing the original deal has a price. And I'd really like them to understand that this may be a price that in future they'll know they don't want to pay.
Ah for an idea world. I suspect it won't hurt them that much, and they'll carry on, knowing they can renege on any deal with impunity. We, as customers, cannot.
What a lovely world us mere mortals live in 'eh? Where's that representation when you need it?
Re:i've been boycotting before anonymous... (Score:5, Insightful)
the point of them being a corporation is to make money.
NO! Quit repeating that. The point is to create wealth, add value to society. It is not just to "make money". Money is only a proxy, an imperfect measure of value. Why imperfect? Because there are all kinds of destructive actions that make one small group or individual richer, or only seemingly richer, at the expense of everyone else. The simplest way is outright theft. Lying is another popular one. Bribery is yet another ancient practice. Obtaining a monopoly and gouging the public is the holy grail of profit, and far too many corporations strive for that. Recently we've seen another way: Too Big to Fail. Corporations, to their shame, do all that and more, all the time. Worse, they think that's just life. It need not be! We try to maintain some civility, outlaw destructive actions, and police our corporate citizens, but it isn't easy. There will always be some crime, of course. But we must keep the fraud and deceit in check, or the system will collapse. Damn near happened in 2008, but we were able to bail everyone out. We didn't do it for their sakes, but for our own. Next time, we might not be able to, and then what? I'm not impressed with their behavior. We suffer their existence because they do add value. If ever they fail us, make such a mess that the damage they cause exceeds all possible future value, and we know of it, we can sink them. They know that. But we are very forgiving, maybe too forgiving, and they know that too. For instance, I doubt that BP could survive another disaster like the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Perhaps BP should have been liquidated, and their management thrown in jail.
I really don't see what your problem with Geohot is. Even if he's an attention whore, as you allege, so what? Blaming him for Sony's actions is ridiculous. He didn't "make" them do anything. He has every right to do anything he wants with his property, EULAs be damned. And to exercise his right to free speech. All he did was point out that the Emperor Has No Clothes. Their DRM is a joke and a fraud, just like the Emperor's clothes.
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Why use all those words? If you want to just bury your head in the sand just say it. "I don't care about other people, I just want to bury my head in the sand." See? Was that so hard?
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They've got 1000 people for a worldwide boycott. I agree, this protest will be like a dust mite crawling across Sony's monocle.
And you're assuming all those people will actually show up and participate. On the other hand I'm betting - worldwide - the number of actual participants will be less than 20. There might be a few dozen more that show up at the store but don't really do anything an objective observer would consider "participating".
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If they're evenly spread worldwide, we can safely assume that the odd Sony store here and there will have one person come in, decide that they'd look a bit silly trying to run a protest on their own and walk away again.
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Having large number of consumers turn up at stores and block sales is going to target the top guy. I hope they make sure that they know how to identify Sony sponsored trouble makers. Most interesting would be if they manage to get some real customers confused with the protesters and violently kicked out by security. Now that would make a story :-)
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This may have been more effective before the holidays. And actively talk people out of stuff. "Oh, that's a nice TV you're looking at. Did you know Vizio sells that size for half the price and better specs?"
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Just throw out the people wearing masks. If it's Anonymous they will probably be wearing them.
Re:If they're going to hit the employees (Score:5, Interesting)
And you're going to 'block sales' without trespassing or obstructing traffic how exactly?
'cmon. Has everybody forgotten how to protest. If the protesters want to get away with it there are so many ways this can be done. Wait until other customers start to arrive in the store. Go into the store (together with more friends than there are assistants). Pretend to be a customer. Demand attention then ask long and annoying but plausible questions about something expensive best of all if it's something you really do want to buy somewhere else. Act unsure; keep all the assistants busy. Then give up. Walk to a different part of the store. Repeat. Alternatively stand outside and be loud. Most customers won't come. Alternatively come in the same colour as the shop assistants [schneier.com]. If asked give misleading advice, especially to go to the store round the corner.
Anyway you probably don't care too much about being charged with trespassing. That's the whole point of civil disobedience.
You know, I hope you people who do these things don't object when right wing wackos boycott Ford for 'promoting' homosexuality [freerepublic.com] or anything..
Of course I object; to the homophobia. I don't care about the fact of the boycott if it wasn't for such a bad reason.
P.S. The best way to boycott Sony is not buying their stuff. Buy a Wii instead. That's what I do. I won't be turning up in a Sony store tomorrow because I haven't cared about Sony for years.
Re:If they're going to hit the employees (Score:4, Interesting)
Alternatively come in the same colour as the shop assistants [schneier.com]. If asked give misleading advice, especially to go to the store round the corner.
Even better, give them brutally honest advice and history lessons. Tell them about the rootkits, the disabling of features on customers devices, the lawsuits, and anything else screwed up that Sony has done to their customers. It would be nice to have some pamphlets made up with all the sordid details (or at least an overview and a URL to find the details) to hand out.
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Stores haven't used AM/FM in, oh, forever. They use satellite, streaming, or a static system (eg, a Muzak box hidden away somewhere).
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I won't be turning up in a Sony store tomorrow because I haven't cared about Sony for years.
Indeed, until two months ago, I hadn't been a Sony customer for years either. In fact, the last thing I bought from Sony was a real, brand-name Walkman in 1984. It held up admirably well, until at least 1991 or 1992. Since then, it was a long time before I was impressed enough to buy a Sony anything at their asking price. By that, I mean they had some nice stuff over the years, but I didn't feel it was worth the extra cost in comparison to competitors' products. I recently got a Sony USB turntable for a
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P.S. The best way to boycott Sony is not buying their stuff. Buy a Wii instead. That's what I do. I won't be turning up in a Sony store tomorrow because I haven't cared about Sony for years.
Because Nintendo and Microsoft are so inclusive and accepting of crackers and users breaking their copy protection aren't they? Oh wait [gamespot.com], no they're not [betanews.com] different at all [destructoid.com]. Just 3 examples of many. I am not sure at all why Sony gets singled out for the hate.
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Just 3 examples of many. I am not sure at all why Sony gets singled out for the hate.
Because it's smarter to pick them off one by one , than to attack them all at once.
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How about switching products from one shelve to the other? Adding flyers describing Sony's practices to product boxes? Inserting DVD/CD's with a prerecorded message/video into any device/box that will take it? Playing the aforementioned DVD/CD on the store televisions? Broadcast over FM/AM so their radios play your message? Buying Sony stuff, only to return it some hours later, entangling their support service? Calling their helpdesk for help with installing Linux? Parody the "You don't
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To post anonymously, or not to post anonymously: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
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If the property owner/renter/leasee/employee asks you to leave and you don't it's trespassing. You don't need the cops to ask, you need them to haul away the trespasser.
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Hmm, that argument doesn't hold very far IMO.. they could save a lot more money by just withdrawing the lawsuit altogether versus what they are going to lose from this action.
There are 27 Sony stores in the United States.
2,800 Walmart Superstores.
Where you will find the PS3 comfortably positioned among big screen HDTV sets and rack after rack of console video games, DVD and Blu-Ray videos.
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Yup, that's the idea. Become a terrorist. And quick before politicians have drawn up some anti-terrorism legislation they could use against you. They might even choose a serious sounding name for that act. Something like a PATRIOT Act, you know, 'cause who wants to defend someone who is not a patriot?