Around middle of January, Sony took legal action against GeoHot, as he managed to get the PS3 "jailbroken". This means allowing their owners to run Homebrew, other OS among other things. Nothing new under the sun when it comes to consoles. read more details here.

By the next month it was taken to court, and Sony got permission to check on the IP of the people that accessed his personal blog destinated to give updates in his finding as he set from begining to the public this challenge he took. They also got permission to see his PayPal transaction records. At some point Sony lift the leash by having the young man to promise never-ever-ever do it again.

What happens? Anonymous, warns first Sony in a letter that it would be targeted with DDoS attack as their expression of discontent for Sony's unfair legal actions such taking IP addresses from the GeoHot's website visitors, attempt to censor information by abusing the judicial system, among other things.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20050310-17.html - Fragments from the Anonymous letter #opSony: CNET News wrote:

"Congratulations, Sony."

"You have now received the undivided attention of Anonymous," the open letter to Sony reads. "Your recent legal action against our fellow hackers, Geohot and Graf_Chokolo has not only alarmed us, it has been deemed wholly unforgivable." (...)

"You have abused the judicial system in an attempt to censor information on how your products work," Anonymous writes in the letter to Sony. "You have victimized your own customers merely for possessing and sharing information, and continue to target every person who seeks this information. In doing so, you have violated the privacy of thousands."

"If you disagree with the disciplinary actions against your private domains, then we trust you can also understand our motivations for these actions," the organization apparently wrote to Sony. "You own your domains. You paid for them with your own money. Now Anonymous is attacking your private property because we disagree with your actions. And that seems, dare we say it, 'wrong.' Sound familiar?"

"Now you will experience the wrath of Anonymous," the group apparently wrote Sony. "You must face the consequences of your actions--Anonymous style."

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Though Anonymous is considered a hacking group, the organization doesn't necessarily see itself that way. As it was attacking the Web sites of financial institutions and other organizations last year over the WikiLeaks scandal, it attempted to explain itself and its intentions:

"Anonymous is not a group of hackers," apparent representatives wrote in a statement at the time. "We are average Internet citizens ourselves and our motivation is a collective sense of being fed up with all the minor and major injustices we witness every day."

They fulfilled with the DDoS attack, and then moved on... or not?