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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.