File a small claims court case, I find it hard to believe that the legal system declined to get involved. If you feel you've been wronged, then you do something about it... legally. Otherwise, sell your PS3 and move on. The best thing you can do is to exercise your rights as a consumer and not spend your hard earned money on products made by that particular company ever again.

Lots of dumb things are argued by a lot of dumb people.

If you stand in a shop doorway where I live, you are escorted off the premises by the police. You can protest outside, but you can't screw with people trying to go about their daily lives. As it should be.

I would bet money that it's related, yes. The asshattery perpetuated by geohot et al. lead directly to these sorts of things--that's the most likely way I can see for an attack that necessitates downing the service to fix it to be launched. They've compromised what were assumed to be trusted clients, which seems likely to be the vector for an attack this serious. (And to forestall the usual: from a technical perspective, obviously Sony shouldn't have trusted clients at all, but just because a window's open doesn't mean going through it isn't trespassing and taking things while you're there isn't theft.)

You poke the fate bear, the fate bear eats you. Unfortunately in this case, it's also chewing on my leg, too.