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Day five of Sony's PlaySation network dawned Monday, with a growing sense of dread that the online outage might persist much longer than expected.
Surprisingly, however, Sony fans and owners who posted to the company's PlayStation blog didn't seem all that concerned. If anything, they were full of praise for the company's senior director of corproate communications and social media, Patrick Seybold, who simply posted an update Monday morning with no real news.

Some, however, began to wonder if any compensation might be forthcoming.
"I know you are waiting for additional information on when PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will be online," Seybold wrote Monday. "Unfortunately, I don't have an update or timeframe to share at this point in time. As we previously noted, this is a time intensive process and we're working to get them back online quickly. We'll keep you updated with information as it becomes available. We once again thank you for your patience."

The PlayStation Network is used to deliver downloadable games, movies, music, and other services to consumers who own a PlayStation 3 console. But the network also serves as the infrastructure for multiplayer games, meaning that gamers won't be able to play a multiplayer game like "Call of Duty" until Sony fixes the outage. Sony said last week that the network might be down for a "day or two," which prompted concern from its users.
Sony confirmed last Friday that the protracted downtime was in response to an apparent hacking attempt. "An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services," it wrote in a blog post.

"Anonymous," an Internet hacking group, was suspected to be behind the outage, but the group denied it. In March Anonymous briefly took down the PlayStation Network to kickstart "Operation Sony," a campaign meant to cripple Sony for its recent lawsuits against PS3 hackers.
But within days, Anonymous reversed the hack due to complaints from gamers that the takedown was doing more harm than good, and hacked into the Sony Careers page instead. Anonymous also organized an in-store boycott.

Sony has used the opportunity to apparently improve its infrastructure, meaning that the company is not only writing new code, but will need to test it as well. "Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure," Seybold wrote in an April 23 blog update. "Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security."

What measures might Sony take to rectify the situation? In 2008, Microsoft offered customers a free game up to $20 in value after a series of stuttering outages and other problems plagued users during the Christmas holidays. Xbox Live general manager Mark Whitten said then that the problems originated from a "massive increase" in new users of the service during the holiday season, when sales of video game hardware and software typically increase significantly.
However, Microsoft charges for its Xbox Live service; Sony's Playstation Network is free, one of the most attractive features of the Sony platform.

Customers, meanwhile, could only sit, wait, and comment. And there was a marked difference between the comments attached to the Anonymous denial of the attack and those attached to the Sony blog posts.
The Anonymous comments were, well, anonymous, with no real delineation between comments posted with the authority of the Anonymous hierarchy, and those who visited the site to comment anonymously. Comments ranged from profanity-filled hate speech to lengthy quotations of political figures to simple approval.

"A company can remove/add whatever the f--- features it wants. If Sony decides to make PSN paid subscription, that would suck, but it's THEIR choice," "GG" wrote on the site. "That too is a selling point. If Sony removes it, that's their prerogative. How people hurt Sony back for that decision is by refusing to buy their console. That's how you do it."
An Anonymous member responded.

"So, what if they remove the option to play online next?" he or she said. "That's their decision? How about they remove blu ray abilities and netflix? That's ok too? How about they just stop the system from playing any games at all, and make it a multimedia machine? That's ok too? How far is too far?"

The debate was far less passionate on the Sony blog. "Thank you, its a shame it had to come to this, wonder why there was an external intrusion in the first place, people ruining it for us. Good thing I can still watch Blu-rays!" "EatDeath" posted.

Are you guys happy PSN has been out for 5 1/2 days? I know im not

Wow bunch of retards is what I say!

After reading this, I'm now confused at the title. :confused:

Sony's best system PS2 I am tired of PSN

lol your sig needs changing :y:

Bunch of retards!?!

I'm thankful.

Sony have shutdown the PSN servers temporarily to stop things like the Re-bug exploit.
People have been able to just go on any PSN members account, doing this they are able to gain peoples details.
If someone hacks your account and you had credit card details on it, and someone spent all your money, would you be bothered! I'm sure alot of people would be!

I think that you sir, are the retard.

To be honest, get over it, its just a game. Its free so you shouldn't even say anything. Ya it sucks we can't play, but it'll be back soon, don't worry.

well said :bro:

im not thankful

I think day 1 they should have told us what was going on. Not waiting awhile then telling us. They knew from the start. Or atleast they should have. Im glad they are fixing it. They can take as long as they like but, they better get it perfect.