Sony fights back: Movie giant launches its own cyber attack

Sony is apparently waging a campaign of defensive hacking and cyber attacks to try and stop people accessing its stolen data on illegal file sharing sites.

Read more: http://tech.thaivisa.com/sony-fights-back-movie-giant-launches-cyber-attack/

Way to go Sony!!

First, you infect user computers with rootkits/viruses, and now engage in active hacktivism...

Time to fire up my LOICs and let the Anons have it... If big International Corps can do it, why can't us mere mortals...?

Guess who's not going to be an AWS customer for long...

Way to go Sony!!

First, you infect user computers with rootkits/viruses, and now engage in active hacktivism...

Time to fire up my LOICs and let the Anons have it... If big International Corps can do it, why can't us mere mortals...?

Because the corps will dust off and nuke your site from orbit. Keep your LOIC in your pants fella.

This is a very bad precedent to set. Is sony judge, jury, and executioner now?

Ya, that's the problem Phazey... What gods get away with, the cows don't!