Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely
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Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely
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#2Wow. Considering that you can't play Netflix on your PS3 without the Playstation Network operational and the article on the front page about Netflix being bigger than cable companies, I wonder how much this is affecting Netflix traffic. I realize you pay for Netflix whether or not PSN is working but then who has responsibility that you can't stream?
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#3Wow. Considering that you can't play Netflix on your PS3 without the Playstation Network operational and the article on the front page about Netflix being bigger than cable companies, I wonder how much this is affecting Netflix traffic. I realize you pay for Netflix whether or not PSN is working but then who has responsibility that you can't stream?
Actually I can still use Netflix while PSN is down, it does ask me to sign in twice but I can just press O after it fails and then Netflix works without an issue.
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#4Wow. Considering that you can't play Netflix on your PS3 without the Playstation Network operational and the article on the front page about Netflix being bigger than cable companies, I wonder how much this is affecting Netflix traffic. I realize you pay for Netflix whether or not PSN is working but then who has responsibility that you can't stream?
You can play Netflix without the PSN. Just log in have it time out, then you are good to go. (I've heard a few folks need to go through the login process 2 or 3 times).
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#5Wow. Considering that you can't play Netflix on your PS3 without the Playstation Network operational and the article on the front page about Netflix being bigger than cable companies, I wonder how much this is affecting Netflix traffic. I realize you pay for Netflix whether or not PSN is working but then who has responsibility that you can't stream?
Actually I can still use Netflix while PSN is down, it does ask me to sign in twice but I can just press O after it fails and then Netflix works without an issue.
Haha! Xbox wins. Well... kind of. I still won't buy one or pay for online... but well... no. I just use ps3 as a glorified netflix player. HA!
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#6A moderator from PSX-Scene.com gave an interesting in-depth explanation as to what is going on with the PlayStation Network on a Reddit AMA recently:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/gx6o4/im_a_moderator...
His take (and he admits it is speculation but it sounds quite plausible) was that a custom PS3 firmware called Rebug gave Playstations Developer-level access to the network, which allowed you to do a whole lot of things without much authentication (input from dev. consoles was trusted far too blindly). This firmware permitted all kinds of shenanigans, up to and including allowing credit cards without validation.
I haven't seen any official comment from Sony on the topic, but there is further speculation that a lot of stored information may have been compromised and that wholesale theft via unvalidated CCs has gone on. Quite a serious breach, and a very poor show on behalf of Sony to blindly trust user input like that from dev. consoles if this turns out to be true.
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#7I don't want to sound like a fan boy or anything but I can't recall a time when Xbox live was down for more than a few hours.
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#8Wow. This has to be something bigger than just "Hacker brought down some PSN computers." Sony surely has disaster recovery plans for something as simple as a large swath of computers going down (for any reason), so it sounds like they must suspect something is fundamentally very wrong with the network itself.
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#9I don't want to sound like a fan boy or anything but I can't recall a time when Xbox live was down for more than a few hours.
Here you go http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/01/xbo...
The complaint describes the December outages -- chronicled on blogs and elsewhere -- that kept people from "accessing online play for several weeks. ... Xbox Live continues to deny subscribers access and has even issued apologies for their failure to correct server problems."
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#10"indefinitely" is linkbait more than anything. It's not "indefinitely" in terms of "forever", which is how it's usually used - it's "an un-specified amount of time".
It's technically correct, but when you hear about something "shutting down indefinitely" you don't think "oh, that's all right, they'll be back up soon".