Bandit99

Welcome to Urgent Fury. Since you are a new clan to Urgent Fury, you will have a Ranger Advisor assigned to you. This Advisor will assist you in your process to enter this community. They will inform you of what we expect from our clans and their members. They will also assist you in any questions you may have. If you have a question they are unable to answer, they will contact a member of Staff and get that answer for you. This Advisor may or may not, also wish to see how you conduct yourself on the battlefield. They may want to see how you conduct yourself online as well as interact with you. This is at the Advisors discretion. I would advise you to make sure you allow them to play with you if they do request so. That being said an Advisor will be along shortly to introduce themselves to you and start the process. Thank you and once again welcome to Urgent Fury!

If I read the report correctly, it does not state it is just the store that is affected. It states that they were able to install their own firmware. While at the moment they were just using it to pilfer the PSN Store, Sony must of felt that there were other things at risk as well. Think about what some of you have already posted. If it was just the store and only the store and nothing else affected, you can bet your ass that is all they would of shut down. This is a public relations nightmare for Sony. If they could do damage control by just shutting down the store they would have. They evidently realized more was at stake to shut the whole network down.

While I agree with great customer service, if I were Sony I would think twice about giving anything. The consumers of the PSN are not out anything. Wait, I just said I believe in great customer service. I did however for someone to be reimbursed for a loss, something tangible had to be lost. Something where you paid for goods and service and you were not provided the service you paid for or at least felt it was sub-standard goods and services. The PSN is a free service. It costs the consumers nothing. There are no monetary damages real or implied, that fall upon the consumer. Some may say well I bought an online game, I was unable to play. So basically you lost time. Time playing a game that is a hobby. Something you do when you have spare time. When the PSN comes back up will you be able to play the game? Yes, so there is nothing lost. They can do nothing to make you whole again. If Sony were to show some type of sentimental favor by giving out freebies for an inconvenience, precedence will be set and the consumer will come to expect this in the future for any type of interruption of their service. It would be like planning a day out on your local county beach or at the county park with family and friends. The county provides numerous amenities such as playgrounds, water fountains and bathrooms. In other words it costs the county to provide you with this free service. About 30 mins in, it rains. Well there goes your whole day. Swimming, building sand castles with your little ones and maybe even a picnic, however that is ruined by something out of control of the park. Do you expect the county workers to hand out free beach towels or t-shirts for your lost day?

So I Irish you say he never pirated anything? You know this for a fact? That however is neither here nor there. So if you yourself were well of and had to protect your fortunes, you invest in a state of the art security system. The company that you hire states it can never be hacked and then some piece of shit decides he has to prove a point as he felt challenged. He then works and is able to hack your system and then posts on the net how to get into your home and you keep getting burglarized. You do not think the individual who told them how to get into your non hackable security system should share any responsibility in what happens to you? If this kid done nothing wrong and nothing illegal then why would there be a settlement? This kid would of stuck to his guns and said no. I guarantee it would of not cost him a dime in legal fees to fight this. The ACLU and every other liberal organization who look to exploit everyone at the chance of making a name for themselves would of assisted him Pro-Bono. You also have to look at the mentality of these people. As soon as Sony realized there may be an issue with Linux on their system, they removed it. What happened. It pissed people of. The hacker went to work to not only bash Sony but crack the PS3. Sony did not sue just because he broke in, they sued for his action of posting proprietary information. Yes the Apple case was lost. They said you can do whatever to your own phone. This however affects others. It was Geo's posting of his hack which has allowed the PSN to be hacked. That affects everyone else. So it is not exactly like the iPhone case where if I jail break my phone it will affect another individuals rights to service or quality of service. Next all these people do is make the price of products go up. The price of a product is just not cost of materials and labor. There is a ton of R&D as well as many behind the scenes cost related to product liability and security. All of these costs are then absorbed by the customer and here we are bitching about the price of these things, yet we support piracy, jail breaking and such. It is like one time I was talking to a buddy of mine about home insurance and he was so pissed about how high his premiums were, yet he then goes on to tell me, "well now I don't feel so bad for the times a screwed them on claims. Another individual who doesn't not only see the big picture, but thinks sticking it to the man will actually benefit him.

In really fail to see the logic in some of these posts. One of the most glaring one is the use of "this has been going on forever and cannot be stopped". This one really confuses me. So by your logic, then anything that has a long history should just be ignored? Murder, rape, molestation etc....all of those have been around a lot longer than software and hardware piracy. We have fought that fight forever to no avail, so we should just let it go and turn the other cheek? I bet you also have an open door policy at your house. You do not lock your doors so that anyone who may feel that you have more than you need, can just walk in and take what they like. That it is your duty to make sure everyone feels welcome to come to your home and help themselves. That you would be selfish and self-serving if you locked the doors trying to protect your property. You see wealth is relative to each situation and who is doing the evaluating. While you may say, the hell with Sony, they are rich what is a few 100,000 pirated games, the hungry homeless kid on the other side of town who has nothing may say, "the hell with you, what's wrong if I take a few of your games, tv and ps3 to buy food, at least you have a home.

LOL, yeah guys I am sorry. As I said it was up for about 15 20 mins earlier. As I said we downloaded the last firmware upgrade and then once downloaded and installed, would not let back on. So there was a short window where it was up.

Your Advisor will be BigDaniel and he should be with you shortly.

Welcome to Urgent Fury. While many of you have participated in UF before, this is a new clan, therefore a new clan to UF. You will have a Ranger Advisor assigned to you. This Advisor will assist you in your process to enter this community. They will inform you of what we expect from our clans and their members. They will also assist you in any questions you may have. If you have a question they are unable to answer, they will contact a member of Staff and get that answer for you. This Advisor may or may not, also wish to see how you conduct yourself on the battlefield. They may want to see how you conduct yourself online as well as interact with you. This is at the Advisors discretion. I would advise you to make sure you allow them to play with you if they do request so. That being said an Advisor will be along shortly to introduce themselves to you and start the process. Thank you and once again welcome to Urgent Fury!

Welcome to UF Fister.

As I said guys it was a small window it was up. I was at my sisters in Orlando and tried to log in on my BIL PS3 and could not. Later we tried again and it let him get on and he actually d'led the last update which he never did. He plays very sparingly. Anyhow it allowed us to get on and download the patch. Then after install we tried to re log back in and it would not allow.

Scratch that it kicked us out again.

Scratch that it just kicked us out.

Happy Easter to all and we all got an Easter present.....The PSN is up.

Yes the PSN is up.

Cp your Ranger Advisor is Phenom. He will be by to assist you soon. Again welcome to the community.

Shadow your Ranger Advisor is Prane. He will be by to assist you soon. Again welcome to the community.

Welcome to Urgent Fury. While many of you have participated in UF before, this is a new clan, therefore a new clan to UF. You will have a Ranger Advisor assigned to you. This Advisor will assist you in your process to enter this community. They will inform you of what we expect from our clans and their members. They will also assist you in any questions you may have. If you have a question they are unable to answer, they will contact a member of Staff and get that answer for you. This Advisor may or may not, also wish to see how you conduct yourself on the battlefield. They may want to see how you conduct yourself online as well as interact with you. This is at the Advisors discretion. I would advise you to make sure you allow them to play with you if they do request so. That being said an Advisor will be along shortly to introduce themselves to you and start the process. Thank you and once again welcome to Urgent Fury!

Just to be clear you do know he is not talking about the RVN gunner, LOL.

Welcome to Urgent Fury. Since you are a new clan to Urgent Fury, you will have a Ranger Advisor assigned to you. This Advisor will assist you in your process to enter this community. They will inform you of what we expect from our clans and their members. They will also assist you in any questions you may have. If you have a question they are unable to answer, they will contact a member of Staff and get that answer for you. This Advisor may or may not, also wish to see how you conduct yourself on the battlefield. They may want to see how you conduct yourself online as well as interact with you. This is at the Advisors discretion. I would advise you to make sure you allow them to play with you if they do request so. That being said an Advisor will be along shortly to introduce themselves to you and start the process. Thank you and once again welcome to Urgent Fury!

Welcome back and as has been stated, most of those guys are no longer here. As far as Sniper is concerned, yes he does great work, however this site was created by our own graphics team, not Sniper.

Starting April 21st, 2011 as of this post all new clans to Urgent Fury as well as returning clans who have either changed leadership or changed your name, must report here so that we can get you going in Urgent Fury. The following is what we will need you to complete. It is highly important that you do so that we can get you going here at UF. Please click on the New Clan Registration sub-forum above to fill out a form. Thank you

Looks good.

Welcome back...Does this mean you are taking back control of the Rangers?

Welcome to Urgent Fury, glad you found your way here.

Welcome back!