Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Anonymous against Sony: from the virtual attacks to sit-in the public squares

Anonymous, the collective of hacker specialized in attacking the sites Web of governments and companies that, to its to say, attempt to the freedom of information and expression, tries to pass from the virtual public squares to those physical. The 16 you open has put them in agenda Operation Sony, a series of sit-in the situated stores of the Japanese house all over the world.

The initiative is coordinated through a Facebook page to which they have joined up to now nearly 3,000 persons. More than to a premeditated and aware change of strategy, the passage to the real one has had to a necessity. The last manifestations lead against Sony through the channels online (putting partially out of service the Play Station Network) have been revealed in fact partially counter-productive, causing more damages to the consumers who to you concern us of the company, with the risk to minare the prestige and the credibility of the autoproclamati champions of the freedoms types them. Indispensable era therefore to find other forms to express own dissent.

The querelle between Sony and Anonymous it has origin from the recent decision of the Japanese society to cite in judgment two programmatori young people that were resolutions to unblock Playstation 3 so that it was possible installarvi also other operating systems (of usual, Linux), a functionality that already present in was passed but that Sony had decided, in one of the last modernizations of the software of the consul, to remove.

An other hack concurred to make to turn on the Ps3 also made software in house. GeoHotz and Graf_Chokolo, as the two hacker is known in Net, expected even than to receive of it compliments for their technical ability; they have been found instead of forehead to a convocazione in court. Not only, but the company also has asked You Tube to know IP addresses of the esplicativi persons who had visualized the video on like realizing these modifications to the consul.

All it concerns around the concept of possession. According to appearing the good sense, and the hacker, when purchase an object, it becomes mine, and I can some make what I want. According to Sony, instead, the owner of the consul cannot alter the game system: the hardware only would be given in licence, not yielded totally.

The controversy seemed to turn in favor of the company, but before it pronounces official, GeoHot and Sony has caught up a extra-judicial agreement. The members of Anonyomous but have decided to continue the protest as they think that the attitude of celebre the house manufacturer of videogiochi violi the freedom of chosen and can constitute a dangerous precedence.

Imagined if Microsoft forced to you to use Internet Explorer instead that Firefox or Chrome - they write in an official notice on their site - and did not allow you to use no other browser; many persons would be annoyed some. And then because you are not annoyed from Sony. The Operation goes ahead therefore, even if the modalities are not very clear at the moment of sit-in; it is only known that the manifestation would have to last 24 hours, till the midnight of the successive day.

It will be interesting to see if the protest will have happened; if the thousands of persons who usually participate to raid the online of the collective pressing of the push-buttons on their keyboards are disposed to come down indeed in public square, and to put the face to us.

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