Sony gets pwned

The most recent news that affected me greatly was that Sony got sued US$80mil by Immersion Inc over PS2's rumble technology, which Immersion patented. Not only that, the courts ordered all PS2 console sales to cease. That's a BIG blow to Sony. They should have settled out of court like Microsoft did with their XBox (which apparently also used Immersion's tech). Wonder what this means from now on.

On the hackfront, recently there was news of a conclusion to a DDOS attack against Lufthansa the german airline. The courts will soon decide if the "activist demonstration" by the hacker constituted a hack. The guy Andreas-Thomas Vogel flooded the carrier's website with hits essentially bringing it down (kinda like what happens when SIA releases $98 tickets).

It'll be interesting to see if any "activism" will take place during the upcoming World Cyber Games 2005 held here in November as well as the IMF conference next year.