While I haven't read every single comment to this thread, one thing that seems to be glossed over is the fact that when I put down $60 for a game like MK or Portal 2 (ok it's a little cheaper, but ignore that for now) I expect to be able to play using the PSN against other players. It has nothing to do with the fact that the PSN is free. It has everything to do with my expectations of the product when I purchase it. Maybe the value of the game is more like $50 or less if I can't play online or maybe I wouldn't buy the game if I couldn't play online.

Couple the above with the much talked about identity theft potential and Sony needs to give it's customers something to say "We screwed up, we really do appreciate your business and we are trying to make it better." The problem is, the value of that something is different for every user. Some people may never have their identity stolen as a result of this problem and some people never play online. On the other hand you've got plenty of people that will have their identity stolen and expect to always be playing online. Their best option might be to give people a choice. 3-6 months of PS+, or 3-6 months of Netflix credit, or something else entirely.

Not sure if it's a result of the book review here, but seems that Zembly's site is down.

I doubt that anyone will read this since it's so far down in the comments, but I'm slightly surprised at some of the backlash to this. Don't get me wrong, if I read this and was a Dish DVR user I would be worried and probably a bit furious. However, I see this panning out in one of two ways.

1. The injunction stays and Dish will be forced into licensing the TiVo technology. Hopefully this will mean that Dish will actually start selling actual TiVo boxes. I'm not sure it will go that far, but it would make me happier since I would have the option of going to Dish if I wanted to.

2. The injunction will be overturned or stayed for a long period of time. In this case I can only hope that TiVo still gets the money from Dish.

I can't imagine that Dish will get to a point where they will actually turn off their customer's DVRs.

Now for the reason I'm slightly surprised at the backlash on slashdot. TiVo has a history of being hacker friendly. For the longest time, their stance has been a do what you want as long as you don't blame us when your system stops working. In addition, if you don't want to pay for a DVR or service, MythTV has been around for a while. I don't have one, but I've heard that it's a very stable and easy to install/use piece of software.