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Re:Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest by tedunangst on Saturday May 14, 2011 @10:20PM (#2549128)
How does one politely ask, what are you talking about?

My PS3 has been working fine since the PSN went offline. Actually, it's been disconnected from the internet (for unrelated reasons) since long before that. All my games play fine. All my blu-ray discs play fine. I have no reason to suspect that they will not continue to work decades from now should I choose to keep them that long.

Re:Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest by bane on Saturday May 14, 2011 @11:49PM (#2549256)
Re:Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest by jackvalentine on Saturday May 14, 2011 @10:40PM (#2549159)
I think he's referring to this item from earlier in the week:

"This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539591

Re:Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest by tedunangst on Saturday May 14, 2011 @11:22PM (#2549228)
Oh, so a downloaded game doesn't work. Well, if we're to compare apples to apples, the Atari 2600 online store has been offline for a while, too.
Re:Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest by SoftwareMaven on Sunday May 15, 2011 @12:54AM (#2549344)
But when the iTunes store is down, I can still play Angry Birds and Splinter Cell, to make a much more appropriate comparison.