Ether hacker problem: soft or hardfork?

[yoona]

Well I have to admit that the concept of these soft-/hardfork are fairly new to me, and that the proper concept and use of ETH is something I'm still getting into, but considering the DAO/ETH hacker problem, why would you not softwork the protocol where the funds (the transaction/blocks wherein his eth was moved) of the hacker are blocked?

(This might be a stupid question considering I don't understand the contracts in eth as I should, but does anyone have a proper explanation somewhere? I have been googling for a while now, but other than the fact that you can upload 'small programs' to the eth blockchain, I don't quite get the point, or the use of the contracts yet... Thanks in advance :p )

[Seggbek Ur]

I think the hard fork is the best option.

[yoona]

I think the hard fork is the best option.

okay, but how does that solve the problem of the 'stolen' coins being retrieved from the hacker?