During a shareholder’s meeting in Tokyo last night, Sony’s Howard Stringer took the stage to discuss the recent PlayStation Network security breaches, which resulted in what was probably the biggest personal data theft in personal data theft history, and a lot of rather angry people (that’s about 77 million rather angry people, if you’re keeping count).<\/p>\n
“We believe that we first became the subject of attack because we tried to protect our IP (intellectual property), our content, in this case videogames,” he told attendees (via Reuters).<\/p>\n
“These are our corporate assets, and there are those that don’t want us to protect them, they want everything to be free.”<\/p>\n
Which really does demonstrate his failure to distinguish between running Linux on a PlayStation 3 and pirating games, as well as the hackers’ own failure to do the same. Is there really ever going to be a practical way to resolve this conflict of interests? Stay tuned, probably forever.<\/p>\n