The Great 2011 PSN Outage Megathread Post 1 updated

NUTZZ · 06-04-2011 11:22pm

This is annoying me now, the few days that I do get to play my PlayStation :mad:

F1ngers · 06-04-2011 11:55pm

EnterNow wrote: »

Also, due to his efforts, its now completely legal to jailbreak a phone* in the states. One mans criminal is another mans saint. Funny how there was none of this while OtherOS was still available. Would Sony just not restore OtherOS with modern security & be done with it?

EnterNow wrote: »

Well I meant their end-goal really, they're obviously making enemies on both sides now. Unfortunately the courts seem to favour the bigger wallet in the states, the recent youtube & google subpoena was clearly a blow for the protection of individual rights & privacy online

Somehow, I don't think wallet size has anything to with it, I mean:

due to his efforts, its now completely legal to jailbreak a phone in the states

, so surely with his efforts anyone would be able to do the same with the PS3.

Did his wallet shrink or is there something else that I (we?) don't know about?
Apple are fairly protective of their IP, as are Sony (as are any other corporation you would care to mention).

*I'm sure you meant iphone. However, to me "jailbreak" is synonomous with the iPhone.

NUTZZ · 07-04-2011 12:36am

UPDATE:

Sony has acknowledged that recent issues with PlayStation's online services could be connected to threats made by hacker group 'Anonymous', saying it's "investigating".

Speaking to IGN, Sony said today: "We are currently investigating, including the possibility of targeted behavior of an outside party. If this is indeed caused by such an act, we want to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service.

"Our engineers are working to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers' continued support," added Sony.

This is the first time Sony has acknowledged the possibility of cyber attacks, with previous statements saying only that the firm was working to restore service.

The problems surfaced shortly after Sony was threatened by hacker group 'Anonymous', which said it would target the company's websites in protest over the "wholly unforgivable" legal pursuit of PS3 hackers George 'Geohot' Hotz and Graf Chokolo.

Earlier this week the US PlayStation Blog was completely down, as was PlayStation.com and the browser-based PS Store (via PC), while PSN was said to be "undergoing sporadic maintenance".

Link

Myrddin · 07-04-2011 8:37am

F1ngers wrote: »

Somehow, I don't think wallet size has anything to with it, I mean:, so surely with his efforts anyone would be able to do the same with the PS3.
Did his wallet shrink or is there something else that I (we?) don't know about?
Apple are fairly protective of their IP, as are Sony (as are any other corporation you would care to mention).

*I'm sure you meant iphone. However, to me "jailbreak" is synonomous with the iPhone.

The American courts in parts are well known for this, why do you think Sony are trying so hard to have Hotz tried in California, & move the case out of NJ? So their lawyers have less travelling to do?

I don't make the distinction between jailbreaking an iPhone or jailbreaking a PS3. The very term jailbreak means to allow the device to run software thats not approved by a 1st party, whether thats a GPS app for your iPad, or a Media Center for your PS3...I fail to see the difference. Yes there are pirating tools, but that's fixable. Or are you associating jailbreaking with piracy & failing to see the many legitimate homebrew PS3 apps that are being written?

Myrddin · 07-04-2011 8:50am

Ok I think they've seen the light, this is the most recent statement from Anonymous

Anonymous is not attacking the PSN at this time. Sony’s official position is that the PSN is undergoing maintenance. We realize that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers.

I think they've realised that this was impacting their point in the wrong way, & attacking PSN was a bad idea. Whatever made them think it was a 'viable' target to begin with is beyond me.

They have however left a set of demands, for when they define new targets & attacks begin again.

1. Sony must allow for end-user modification of the PS3, as was available prior to the 3.21 firmware update.

2. Sony must end any attempts to bring legal action to alter a product they own.

3. Sony must not pursue legal action against any collected IP address.

Source

In a nutshell, they want OtherOS back, no more suing people for doing what the likes of Graf has done, and no suing anyone who watched or commented on Hotz jailbreak video. I'm not sure how realistic those demands are, & I cannot see Sony restoring OtherOS due to cost. The suing action is a detterent method, & will likely continue. But I wholeheartidly agree with the last one, allowing Sony to access that info was a complete failure by the judge, as in my understanding, its no crime to watch a youtube video.

Anyhow I presume PSN is back by now?

Sephiroth_dude · 07-04-2011 4:12pm

Is it down again?

Klair88 · 07-04-2011 5:21pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is it down again?

I couldnt get onto it this morning again and was well p!ssed off, checked online and someone said to disable the media server connection in Network settings, and i logged on straight away and have had no problems since.

wilser · 08-04-2011 10:16pm

is psn down again?

09-04-2011 8:58pm

I cant sign in now:mad:

Sephiroth_dude · 10-04-2011 12:25am

Was working grand for me all night thank god

Liamario · 10-04-2011 12:36am

If people want to modify their console, personally I don't see a problem with it. At least insofar as the modification isn't used to enable piracy. While the arguement that it's your console and you can do what you like with it, sounds good on paper- the reality isn't so simple. Sony's hand was forced because some people want it both ways, that is to be able to do what they want with their console, while also using Sony's network.

You can't pick and choose the rules you follow.

Myrddin · 10-04-2011 11:39am

Liamario wrote: »

If people want to modify their console, personally I don't see a problem with it. At least insofar as the modification isn't used to enable piracy. While the arguement that it's your console and you can do what you like with it, sounds good on paper- the reality isn't so simple. Sony's hand was forced because some people want it both ways, that is to be able to do what they want with their console, while also using Sony's network.

You can't pick and choose the rules you follow.

Absolutely, it should be one or the other (modification or online useage). Both is just taking the p1ss altogether.

Suspiria79 · 16-04-2011 10:44pm

PSN down all day. Haven't signed in the past few days till today but looks like it's been like this for a while according to tweets.

F1ngers · 16-04-2011 10:56pm

Suspiria79 wrote: »

PSN down all day. Haven't signed in the past few days till today but looks like it's been like this for a while according to tweets.

Wrong.
I signed in after your post. 5 boardsies are online and other non boardsies.
Got links to reliable tweets or you making stuff up?

Suspiria79 · 17-04-2011 1:17am

F1ngers wrote: »

Wrong.
I signed in after your post. 5 boardsies are online and other non boardsies.
Got links to reliable tweets or you making stuff up?

Just search for PSN in twitter and you'll get all the available tweets that has PSN in its sentence. And loads of them are saying it's down.

Suspiria79 · 17-04-2011 1:22am

Headshot · 17-04-2011 1:23am

I just turned on my ps3 there and its signing in no bother

Desire. · 17-04-2011 1:46am

Working fine for me too.

Suspiria79 · 17-04-2011 2:43am

I tried tonight again and eventually got into it. An error at first try after turning on the PS3 but when I clicked on the playstation store and it asked me to sign it, then it did sign in.

Sephiroth_dude · 17-04-2011 2:12pm

Worked fine for me last night.

Josey Wales · 17-04-2011 7:57pm

Anyone having issues now with signing into the PSN?

Headshot · 17-04-2011 7:59pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

Anyone having issues now with signing into the PSN?

nope working perfect for me

Suspiria79 · 17-04-2011 8:01pm

Seems it won't connect on start up but going into the PS store and then signing in, it will work. Odd.

WolfForager · 17-04-2011 8:05pm

Suspiria79 wrote: »

Seems it won't connect on start up but going into the PS store and then signing in, it will work. Odd.

Yea I have to manually sign in too. Have done for the last few days.

Josey Wales · 17-04-2011 8:39pm

WolfForager wrote: »

Yea I have to manually sign in too. Have done for the last few days.

Manual sign-in isn't working for me today.

Kells... · 17-04-2011 8:42pm

Are you getting error code 80710092 that's what I've been getting all day.

Headshot · 17-04-2011 9:08pm

jebus lads mine automatically signs in

Kells... · 17-04-2011 9:11pm

Mine usually does aswell

Desire. · 17-04-2011 9:52pm

Headshot wrote: »

jebus lads mine automatically signs in

Same here.

Beefy78 · 18-04-2011 9:40pm

Anyone else unable to sign in?

EDIT - haha every time I have a problem logging in it fixes itself as soon as I post on here!

thorbarry · 18-04-2011 9:54pm

Beefy78 wrote: »

Anyone else unable to sign in?

EDIT - haha every time I have a problem logging in it fixes itself as soon as I post on here!

I cant sign in

WolfForager · 18-04-2011 9:54pm

Neither can i.

Headshot · 18-04-2011 10:00pm

This is getting a bit repetitive

, I can sign in no bother

Kells... · 18-04-2011 10:14pm

Fcuk you headshot ya cnut :P are ya's with UPC by any chancE?

Headshot · 18-04-2011 10:22pm

TroutFisher wrote: »

Fcuk you headshot ya cnut :P are ya's with UPC by any chancE?

Nope worse

Eircom

thorbarry · 20-04-2011 10:05pm

jesus, restarting my router actually worked!!

Desire. · 21-04-2011 9:49am

Now I can't sign in. :mad:

Krusader · 21-04-2011 9:53am

UPC here, the 1st time i try to sign in it doesn't work, the 2nd time i'm in no probs

Jerichoholic · 21-04-2011 10:17am

UPC here too, same problem only I can't sign in at all. The Playstation web browser works but no PS Network.

Desire. · 21-04-2011 10:18am

PSN down for maintenance.

PaddyBomb · 21-04-2011 10:26am

This is getting annoying.

Washington Irving · 21-04-2011 2:47pm

Any idea how long its down for?

F1ngers · 21-04-2011 3:23pm

They don't know.
http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network/PSN-Outage-today-Thursday-21st-April-2011-80710A06/m-p/12758774?WT.mc_id=TSO_EN_103.

Some twit, http://twitter.com/#!/RabidWalker

WolfForager · 21-04-2011 4:21pm

They're looking into the "possibility" of it being due to an attack by an outside party.

Don't ya just love Anonymous?

Minstrel27 · 21-04-2011 6:02pm

Jesus ****ing Christ and on Mortal Kombat release day too

EGriff · 21-04-2011 6:13pm

Goddammit. I wanna play battlefield.

Suspiria79 · 21-04-2011 6:16pm

xbox live is having a great laugh

leemurta · 21-04-2011 6:18pm

I wanna play Killzone:mad:

Headshot · 21-04-2011 6:28pm

You wouldnt want to be paying for psn and even if your paying for psn plus this downtime is pretty bad

D2D · 21-04-2011 6:32pm

Latest blog:

While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running. Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we’ll update you again as soon as we can.

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