Poll: Will you opt out of the Sony Class Action Lawsuit?

[Korolev]

I wasn't aware I was even in it! How can you get out of something you were never in?

 

[hyzaku]

I just want whatever paperwork is necessary to tell the lawyer/law firm doing this to fucking leave me out. I've had no trouble from this aside from the PSN being down. I mean seriously, it takes less than a minute to change a password. IF my card gets charged then I will take measures with my bank as I'm protected against such things anyway. As for my personal info? Well a google search will get you that if you have my name. My e-mail gets spammed with stupid scams anyway as if it was hard to spot those.

I've lost absolutely nothing to this. Having some greedy brat thinking I want him to represent me just pisses me off. Let Sony at least tell us what actually happened before we go suing over hot coffee.

 

[Dys]

I'm fairly sure we can sue them for inadequately protecting our personal information. There privacy policy indicates they will take due care to ensure personal data is not distributed or leaked, and this has not happened.

I will not opt out, should such a lawsuit become relevant in australia.

 

[Elamdri]

I wasn't aware I was even in it! How can you get out of something you were never in?

originally I had asked if you would join in the lawsuit, but then someone reminded me that you're automatically a part of a class action if you're a member of the named class, so I changed it to "Would you opt out?"

 

[Cowabungaa]

I neither have the energy nor willpower to care enough. Plus, it'd mean I'd have to sell my PS3 and all my games, and somehow I doubt I'll get a proper price for it nowadays. I'd have to buy a new 360 too so I can keep buying console games. And that's too expensive and too much of a hastle.

That, and I still don't know how much of this is really Sony's fault. Did they neglect informing us users? I can get that, not a good thing, but I still have no idea how this security breach actually happened.

Sony lost a shit load of trust from it's user base because of this. I would truthfully rather this case not even go to court. In a perfect world Sony mans up to it's mistakes and does it's absolute best to make it's users feel safe and wanted. This is the ideal way to resolve this and I hope that's what happens.

Eh, no big-ass company would do that. Not Microsoft, not Nintendo, not Sony. They're too big too care like that, too many customers, too spread out, completely outside the Monkey Sphere.

 

[Raistlinhawke]

Becoming part of a petty lawsuit out of spite isn't going to help anything. Especially if the financial implications are correct, and Sony gets ruined because of it.

You know what? Actions have consequences. If you don't take adequate means to protect customer data, and it get's stolen, and you get sued because of it, then you deserve it.

When did I say that actions don't have consequences? Potentially losing $24 billion dollars isn't bad enough? Sure, if you are personally hacked and lose funds over the matter, Sony owes you. But manufacturing a lawsuit at this early stage seems ridiculous, when there have been no confirmed cases of identity theft.

Yes there have been no confirmed cases of identity theft, but the fact that they lost the data in the first case is also something that they need to be punished for.

And they will be. You and I are only disagreeing over how much is enough.

 

[Elamdri]

And they will be. You and I are only disagreeing over how much is enough.

Here's my thing. Sony is NOT my friend. Sony is a company, who exists to make money. Sony has wronged me by not adequately protecting my personal information and allowing a 3rd party access to it. I want to be compensated for that wrong, and I want to see Sony suffer some consequences for that wrong.

Now I will be honest, I don't know if this suit has any merits. But it's not like Sony doesn't have a robust legal team that will fight the lawsuit. As far as I'm concerned, if the lawsuit gets thrown out or they lose, then I was wrong, and everything's as it should be.

If they lose the lawsuit, and lose money, then I was right, and everything's again as it should be.

I honestly don't care if Sony stands to lose tons of money. I think that they SHOULD lose tons of money. We'll let the courts decide tho.

 

[Raistlinhawke]

And they will be. You and I are only disagreeing over how much is enough.

Here's my thing. Sony is NOT my friend. Sony is a company, who exists to make money. Sony has wronged me by not adequately protecting my personal information and allowing a 3rd party access to it. I want to be compensated for that wrong, and I want to see Sony suffer some consequences for that wrong.

Now I will be honest, I don't know if this suit has any merits. But it's not like Sony doesn't have a robust legal team that will fight the lawsuit. As far as I'm concerned, if the lawsuit gets thrown out or they lose, then I was wrong, and everything's as it should be.

If they lose the lawsuit, and lose money, then I was right, and everything's again as it should be.

I honestly don't care if Sony stands to lose tons of money. I think that they SHOULD lose tons of money. We'll let the courts decide tho.

I never asserted that Sony or any company should be treated as a friend. The company already stands to lose an incredible amount of money, and has already lost significant revenue, without the presence of a lawsuit. Throwing another legal matter into action without absolute assurance that it is worthwhile is a terrible way to approach any legal system. Sony is already working with multiple investigations in multiple countries, and multiple lawsuits are already pending.

Until the situation is over, any lawsuit approaching the subject of individual compensation is pre-mature. We don't know what Sony plans to offer its own customers in that regard, it could be worth the trouble.

 

[alrekr]

I hope the judge takes one look, laughs, and throws the case out.

keeping records unencrypted and evidently unsecured.

Well the records were encypted escapist had an article on it yesterday.

 

[R0cklobster]

Yes, because I think that guy is a bit of a douche and cos I feel bad for Sony getting shat on all the time - or at least as sorry as a regular person can feel for a giant corporation that is making far more money than I ever will in a lifetime.

 

[funkzillabot]

I'm actually not going to opt in. I'm not going to see anything close to the money they own us for the stress, time wasted calling the bank issuing new cards, dealing with all the other accounts that original card was tied too, and any shit or scam-artists that WILL be coming down the road over the next year.

If Sony was to learn their lesson from this, repent, apologize, and change their ways that would be enough. But I know that they won't. Sony is run by idiots, they will simply blow this incident (like so many others) off as someone else's fault, never themselves. Tomorrow it will be business as usual.

 

[Elamdri]

I'm actually not going to opt in. I'm not going to see anything close to the money they own us for the stress, time wasted calling the bank issuing new cards, dealing with all the other accounts that original card was tied too, and any shit or scam-artists that WILL be coming down the road over the next year.

If Sony was to learn their lesson from this, repent, apologize, and change their ways that would be enough. But I know that they won't. Sony is run by idiots, they will simply blow this incident (like so many others) off as someone else's fault, never themselves. Tomorrow it will be business as usual.

You are automatically in, you have to choose to opt out or not.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Can anyone tell me how precisely to opt out of this? I don't want to sue Sony. They made a mistake, sure, but this is the first bad experience I've had with them. I'd like to continue to support them by not suing them.

 

[Elamdri]

Can anyone tell me how precisely to opt out of this? I don't want to sue Sony. They made a mistake, sure, but this is the first bad experience I've had with them. I'd like to continue to support them by not suing them.

You'll likely be contacted at some point by whoever is doing the lawsuit to inform you of what's going on and what you need to do, and I'm pretty sure they'll have detailed what you need to do if you wanna opt out.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Probably not. I'll log in as soon as it's up, change passwords, and be done with it. The card on file is attached to an account that was eaten by college, and it's empty, I'll just remove the card from it. That account is more or less closed anyway.

You should probably close that card just to be safe.

That account has $4.31 in it, and has a finite floor, and is closed to overdrawing, by my contract for the account. I'm not in a terrible hurry to maintain it's safety.