I had dental surgery January and while staying at home feeling miserable, watched probably three NetFlix movies a day for a week. Two weeks later I got a letter in the mail from my ISP stating that I, singularly, had affected their entire network due to my increased bandwidth usage, and that if it happened again, they would terminate my account. I had to restrain myself from laughing - actually, I think I did laugh. I use Bell Canada, and can't imagine for one minute that my movie watching affected their ENTIRE NATIONAL network? But this just goes to show that it won't be long before "they" (ISP providers) stop tolerating companies such as NetFlix piggybacking on their infrastructures.

All online companies that store credit card data are required to be PCI Compliant, like the company I work for, http://solidtrustpay.com./ The only reason Sony would have been storing card info is to retain the ability to recharge cards monthly, etc. ALL data should be encrypted, not just card info; in particular, email addresses to prevent phishing and spam attacks. Let's hope they learn and adjust their database systems quickly!