Poll: Will you opt out of the Sony Class Action Lawsuit?
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No, I don't have the mindset of a 5-year-old.
If I lent my wallet to someone, and someone stole it from them, I'm not going to blame the person I lent it to.
And you won't win. I imagine there's a fairly simple clause (one that should be obvious to anyone with a shred of sense when they input their details anyway) that states something similar to those signs you read in car parks saying: "we do not accept responsibility for stolen goods or vehicle damage."
Some of you just need to get wise.
If I lent my wallet to someone, and someone stole it from them, I'm not going to blame the person I lent it to.
And you won't win. I imagine there's a fairly simple clause (one that should be obvious to anyone with a shred of sense when they input their details anyway) that states something similar to those signs you read in car parks saying: "we do not accept responsibility for stolen goods or vehicle damage."
Some of you just need to get wise.
Oh, count on it! I always have had it in for Sony--
Oh wait, can i participate in the lawsuit when i've never owned a PS3 or PSP?
Oh wait, can i participate in the lawsuit when i've never owned a PS3 or PSP?
No way; the basic idea behind a class action lawsuit can be defined as thus: if the suit is successful, then a few lawyers will get a crapload of money, and every commoner participating in the suit will get a quarter; this is going to be the scenario if this draws in a bunch of participants.
Just give us all aload of games of PSN and I'll forgive them.
Luckily my card expired just as the data was stolen, so I have a new card and details.
Luckily my card expired just as the data was stolen, so I have a new card and details.
They didn't even hash users passwords.Jodah said:
That is incompetence below the level of High School Web Coding.
They've endangered millions of people. Especially those that live in places like the US where it's crazy easy to steal your identity.
I'd be equally upset if I went to a doctor and he mistakenly prescribed me anthrax instead of tylenol because "Well I mean...they both were white."
Incompetence on that scale needs to be addressed because they work on a scale that is too large to be that incompetent.
Going by the 2 bad analogies I think the bolded line is mighty funny.Woodsey said:
When someone can show me where Sony did not encrypt their data I will go along with the lawsuit. The only place I have seen that is in unfounded rumors started on these very forums that have been known, at least in recent history, to jump to conclusions. Any encryption can be broken, assuming Sony didn't encrypt it just because they were hacked speaks of ignorance.theultimateend said:
Well I'll be, that there's really touching, just wanted y'all to know.kimba_lion said:
Join the NinjaOnXTC cult or die, seriously you now are required by law to worship me as a god, because I said so.
Not in the slightest bit on topic so far, but keep up the good work and hope that the angry mass starts to experience it's relentless anger quelled soon enough. So hard to get a point across about a vast group of people without having to resort to derogatory generalisations...
Me too, which is why I wont be actively pursuing this.emeraldrafael said:
However, if this was the event that encouraged me to sign up for a credit protection plan, I would get Sony to pay for it.
If you've never had any other reason to believe that your ID could be at risk, you shouldn't have to pay for it.
On another note:
I mentioned this on another forum but the threat here isn't so much to your credit card but your credit in general, the balance on the card is insured even without a credit protection plan. As long as you didn't use your debit card (which you shouldn't for anything other than the atm machine), they probably wont even use the card you had up on psn. I didn't cancel my card and I'm definitely not putting a different card up on psn.
The real issue is that whoever got the info now has enough info to take out loans and other credit cards under your name. So if you don't already have a credit protection plan and your info was stolen, get one.
And for the love of god do not click on links in emails that claim to be from your bank or sony without first confirming with the source by calling them yourself.
There will probably be a significantly lower settlement award. Like, maybe a few million to be split up (and probably more to the more important folks), if that.Woodsey said:
No but I will gladly take part in the ritual dismembering of whatever self entitled twat with a hero complex brought down the PSN and made me waste an afternoon cancelling cards and scrubbing information. Oh and if i ever meet Geohot Im going to shove my boot so far down his throat he will be shitting laces, you don't get to arm hackers with software, point at the target and then act like you had no involvment to do you are not some internet crusader.
No, any issues brought upon by this hacking of sony can easily be fixed if I call my CC company and change my passwords. done, problem solved. I don't have to whine and complain and demand compensation for a minor inconvenience.
Nope, unlike most Americans, I actually wait for something to happen to me before I sue the pants off everybody.
Kid, this lawsuit, and the hate against Sony, is something that small, petty, and childish people do when they feel threatened and there's nothing they can do about it. The hackers are the problem, but no one knows who the hackers are or how to find them, so people are lashing out at whoever they can. That's Sony and, to a lesser extent, Anonymous and Geohot.thefreeman0001 said:
Reserving our anger for the people who actually did this doesn't mean we forfeit anything.
Sony hardly needs anymore problems. They warned their consumers information might have been stolen as soon as they knew. I have never EVER had a problem with Sony, and they arent going to lose my support just because one mistake happened. The fact of the matter is that Sony is a company made up of- you guessed it. Humans. Accidents are made and Sony has- at least as far as I have seen, done all of the right things given the situation. I find it tedious and pittiful how quickly the wolves turn as soon as anything goes wrong. You want to sue someone? Sue those god damn hackers who caused the problem. It because of Assholes like them that we cant have nice things.Valagetti said:
Sony has enough problems on there plate, but they can rest assured that they will AT LEAST have this loyal customer when they return to business.
It's about data security from what I can deduct, like every other company Sony(probably) puts it in their contract that they will not share your data with any 3rd party, since the data got out they didn't keep their end of the contract.VikingSteve said:
As if someone got into your safety deposit box at your bank, the bank carries responsibility.
Further more those geniuses at Sony kept the entire user database as plain text, so anyone who got into the system immediately had everything including credit card information, maybe you can see why people get upset.
Seems pretty simple. You give your info to a company who says they will take care of it, they don't, of course they have to pay, or at least put an asteriks on them saying your data is being protected*
*Unless something happens to it.
*Unless something happens to it.
On principle, I hate class action lawsuits. They are a massive scam that lawyers use to make massive amounts of dough.
That being said, I could certainly use whatever little scrap of money the lawyers choose to throw our way after they take their cut and I am legitimately pissed at Sony, so I don't know.
I guess I just have to wait and see what the lawsuit is asking for in damages to decide if I want to join in.
That being said, I could certainly use whatever little scrap of money the lawyers choose to throw our way after they take their cut and I am legitimately pissed at Sony, so I don't know.
I guess I just have to wait and see what the lawsuit is asking for in damages to decide if I want to join in.