[citation][nom]amk09[/nom]Arrested??? Wow man you need to take a step back and think about that. This is childs play compared the crimes that are commited in this world. How about we focus on murderers, rapists, gang violence? Or how about keeping dumbass drunk drivers/texting drivers off the roads, because thats KILLING families loved ones every day.This is nothing but a protest by a group of people, and you can't deny that its mostly Sony's own fault. They should have implemented a more secure system from the get-go, and Suing Geo-hot was a terrible decision. It's the same with any group of people. Take the fairly recent protest in London. If you anger a bunch of college students by raising annual tuition from $14,000 to $42,000, they will rage and protest. Should we arrest the 50,000 students who marched in protest because they got screwed over? Should we arrest the supporters of Geo-hot and hackers who wish to do as they please with their own property? No, we shouldn't, thats just fucking stupid.I will add that I don't think Sony deserves this entirely, they have continued to keep the PSN free while the other side continues to charge. In the end, they should have never went after Geo-hot like that, because they could have avoided this whole situation.[/citation]
Unfortunately this kind of stuff takes away from police time of tracking down the murderers. rapists and so on. Simply this is a huge corporation with the money to influence the police to help them over other crime (which is sad but true). But hacking is a crime, first you could steal personal information of all of Sony's customers (including credit information, addresses and so on). In which stealing 1000's of peoples financial information is very important. Also this is not just a peaceful protest, it is an attack. Which again can lead to stealing. In addition it can cause damage to the servers and security that Sony has put in place causing them to revamp the system costing thousands to millions. So you see it isnt exactly as small of a deal as you put it. Also bringing Geo-Hot's hacking into this isnt exactly the same thing, he did something that I believe should be allowed since it is your property that you are toying with. As far as the 50,000 protesters, they should be arrested if they tried to harm anyone or their property, otherwise no. But in short, if you so upset over the police putting more time into this over someone who murders or rapes then you should be mad at those who make the police have to take time away from those people.
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