EU Customs Ordered To Seize PS3 Consoles

[Law]

This is the biggest bullshit ever. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray player. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray film. Sony, Philips and Pioneer were the companies that actually developed Bluray technology. How the hell did LG actually get an injunction when they have no case, when all they ever did was jump on the bandwago? Being able to play certain kinds of media shouldn't even be patentable for crying out loud.

Ugh...

Pretty much this, but thanks to corrupt corporations the patent system will never be fixed.

And of course if LG manage to get the consoles banned completely, what's stopping publishers from going "Okay, now we don't have to publish PS3 games in europe anymore."

Way to set the gaming market back 20 years, LG.

I want this to happen.

Why would you want this to happen?

Because if Sony dies Sony exclusive games would branch to Nintendo and Microsoft systems.
Like how we get sonic games on wii and 360 now.

Sega isn't dead.

And if Sony die, their projects will probably die too.

Not to mention the American and Japanese markets will keep them going, it'll only be Europe that gets fucked over with consumers being forced to import games at crazy marked up prices. At least Sony had the sense to make it region free.

 

[DiscostewSM]

don't forget sony teamed up with nintendo to create playstation a snes cd add on but sony got greedy and fucked nintendo over

I believed it was like this too when I was younger, but it was nintendo who got cold feet and left actually

If I remember my history correctly, Nintendo went to Sony about the addon, so the contract was made and signed. What happened around the unveiling of the partnership was that Sony, in the contract, would have had exclusive rights and royalties for anything made for the addon, cutting Nintendo out any profits, so they cut up the contract and went with Phillips. Negotiations with Nintendo and Sony continued, when Sony was making their own standalone unit that also offered the ability to play SNES games. This time, Nintendo wanted a larger cut of all sales from hardware and software, so negotiations terminated, and now they are rivals. They both were greedy, and both at fault for a bad partnership.

 

[Tai Le Ree]

This is the biggest bullshit ever. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray player. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray film. Sony, Philips and Pioneer were the companies that actually developed Bluray technology. How the hell did LG actually get an injunction when they have no case, when all they ever did was jump on the bandwago? Being able to play certain kinds of media shouldn't even be patentable for crying out loud.

Ugh...

Pretty much this, but thanks to corrupt corporations the patent system will never be fixed.

And of course if LG manage to get the consoles banned completely, what's stopping publishers from going "Okay, now we don't have to publish PS3 games in europe anymore."

Way to set the gaming market back 20 years, LG.

I want this to happen.

Why would you want this to happen?

Because if Sony dies Sony exclusive games would branch to Nintendo and Microsoft systems.
Like how we get sonic games on wii and 360 now.

Sega isn't dead.

And if Sony die, their projects will probably die too.

Not to mention the American and Japanese markets will keep them going, it'll only be Europe that gets fucked over with consumers being forced to import games at crazy marked up prices.

I just have my reasons to want to see sony fall.
And I'm sure all the other companies that sell games to sony would want their games to be global.
This means way less games for the ps3
And more games on other systems.
why am I talking like this.
one sentence per line.
Stop it.

 

[machomuu]

I just have my reasons to want to see sony fall.
And I'm sure all the other companies that sell games to sony would want their games to be global.
This means way less games for the ps3
And more games on other systems.
why am I talking like this.
one sentence per line.
Stop it.

Yeah, there's a certain other member that does that, though I haven't seen him in a while...

Anyway, the world of Sony sure has gotten dramatic lately.

 

[emigre]

This is the biggest bullshit ever. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray player. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray film. Sony, Philips and Pioneer were the companies that actually developed Bluray technology. How the hell did LG actually get an injunction when they have no case, when all they ever did was jump on the bandwago? Being able to play certain kinds of media shouldn't even be patentable for crying out loud.

Ugh...

Pretty much this, but thanks to corrupt corporations the patent system will never be fixed.

And of course if LG manage to get the consoles banned completely, what's stopping publishers from going "Okay, now we don't have to publish PS3 games in europe anymore."

Way to set the gaming market back 20 years, LG.

I want this to happen.

Why would you want this to happen?

Because if Sony dies Sony exclusive games would branch to Nintendo and Microsoft systems.
Like how we get sonic games on wii and 360 now.

Sega isn't dead.

And if Sony die, their projects will probably die too.

Not to mention the American and Japanese markets will keep them going, it'll only be Europe that gets fucked over with consumers being forced to import games at crazy marked up prices.

I just have my reasons to want to see sony fall.
And I'm sure all the other companies that sell games to sony would want their games to be global.
This means way less games for the ps3
And more games on other systems.
why am I talking like this.
one sentence per line.
Stop it.

Did Sony massacre your family and friends in a drink-drug with members of the popular band The carpenters taking videos for thier own sick perverted pleasure?

And when Law said projects would die, he meant Sony owned studios like Naughty Dog.

 

[twiztidsinz]

don't forget sony teamed up with nintendo to create playstation a snes cd add on but sony got greedy and fucked nintendo over

I believed it was like this too when I was younger, but it was nintendo who got cold feet and left actually

i was under the impression that sony was demanding an unreasonably large cut of the profits from nintendo so the deal was off....

From what I recall of an article I read a number of years back, it wasn't an "unreasonably large" cut, it was more of a "larger than expected" cut which would have put a considerable amount more risk on Nintendo than they had planned/accounted for. Each side (Nintendo was scared vs Sony was greedy) contains facts, but misses the truth.

 

[chyyran]

Sony's gettin' kicked in the but by karma eh? That's what you get for raiding an innocent person's home. When will you learn that what comes around, goes around.
As for LG, good that your kicking Sony in the butt, but bad for abusing the patent system.

 

[CarbonX13]

Didn't Sony invent Blu-ray? How can they be copying when they invented the tech?

 

[machomuu]

Didn't Sony invent Blu-ray? How can they be copying when they invented the tech?

No, they didn't create Blue Ray, Shuji Nakamura did.

 

[geminisama]

Another episode in Sony's midlife crisis. For those of you bitching about LG, you do realize this would never have happened if they didn't make a strong case? These kind of things don't happen over mere accusations with no substance.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Just because Sony owns the rights to Blu-Ray, it doesn't mean that they own everything relating to it. From my understanding, LG developed SOMETHING for the Blu-ray player, and Sony used THAT technology without permission from LG.

It's just like if, let's say...Nyko made an incredible 3rd party Wiimote for the Wii that was 10 times better than the original, using their own technology and techniques and patents, and Nintendo decided to completely steal their patented 3rd party Wiimote and sell it under their name without permission. Nyko would have a pretty much open and shut case of patent infringement. Nintendo owns all rights to the Wii, but not everything relating to it, you see.

 

[Kioku]

This is the biggest bullshit ever. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray player. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray film. Sony, Philips and Pioneer were the companies that actually developed Bluray technology. How the hell did LG actually get an injunction when they have no case, when all they ever did was jump on the bandwago? Being able to play certain kinds of media shouldn't even be patentable for crying out loud.

Ugh...

Lol... It's patents......

 

[Oveneise]

Wow. Sony is having a lot of bad luck recently.

 

[Maedhros]

This bullshit is going too far... the only ones who loses on this is the consumers, as always.

 

[Law]

This is the biggest bullshit ever. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray player. Sony was the first company to release a Bluray film. Sony, Philips and Pioneer were the companies that actually developed Bluray technology. How the hell did LG actually get an injunction when they have no case, when all they ever did was jump on the bandwago? Being able to play certain kinds of media shouldn't even be patentable for crying out loud.

Ugh...

Pretty much this, but thanks to corrupt corporations the patent system will never be fixed.

And of course if LG manage to get the consoles banned completely, what's stopping publishers from going "Okay, now we don't have to publish PS3 games in europe anymore."

Way to set the gaming market back 20 years, LG.

I want this to happen.

Why would you want this to happen?

Because if Sony dies Sony exclusive games would branch to Nintendo and Microsoft systems.
Like how we get sonic games on wii and 360 now.

Sega isn't dead.

And if Sony die, their projects will probably die too.

Not to mention the American and Japanese markets will keep them going, it'll only be Europe that gets fucked over with consumers being forced to import games at crazy marked up prices.

I just have my reasons to want to see sony fall.
And I'm sure all the other companies that sell games to sony would want their games to be global.
This means way less games for the ps3
And more games on other systems.
why am I talking like this.
one sentence per line.
Stop it.

I think you'll find

that I wrote one sentence

every other line.

Glad to see you can still act childish when you don't have a leg to stand on.

 

[SPH73]

This is possibly the most catastrophic development in gaming history.

If this happened to any other company you would never hear the end of it. Seriously, this is really the end.

They failed to capture the portable market. (Sony is still caught in the "gaming ghetto.")

They fail with the PS3 losing 4.7 billion. (Actually its closer to six billion now.)

They pay an obnoxious kid to go on the internet and mock the Wii by saying "Shove it up your ass, dildo, etc." And when that failed they ripped off the Wii mote directly.

They create animosity with almost every gamer on the planet by attacking Google, YouTube, and PS3 hackers.

They run offensive ads that mock religion, Jesus, Jews, Blacks, Women, Hispanics, Violence against Women, etc

And now this....

This is all the perfect shit storm of karma.

 

[Maedhros]

This is possibly the most catastrophic development in gaming history.

If this happened to any other company you would never hear the end of it. Seriously, this is really the end.

They failed to capture the portable market. (Sony is still caught in the "gaming ghetto.")

They fail with the PS3 losing 4.7 billion. (Actually its closer to six billion now.)

They pay an obnoxious kid to go on the internet and mock the Wii by saying "Shove it up your ass, dildo, etc." And when that failed they ripped off the Wii mote directly.

They create animosity with almost every gamer on the planet by attacking Google, YouTube, and PS3 hackers.

They run offensive ads that mock religion, Jesus, Jews, Blacks, Women, Hispanics, Violence against Women, etc

And now this....

This is all the perfect shit storm of karma.

Now I'm sure that I'll lose nothing blocking your comments.

 

[GH0ST]

The Guardian reports that the situation is further complicated by a number of other patent disputes that the two companies are currently contesting with each other.

LG filed a patent-infringement complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission to block Fony from selling some high-margin televisions and game consoles after Fony filed a lawsuit against the South Korean company in December, alleging that LG violated U.S. trade rules by importing and selling certain mobile phones and modems that infringed on Sony's patents.

This is War...

 

[Giga_Gaia]

Obviously, Sony went too far with the war to the hackers. Now the universe is sending them a message telling them to GTFO.

Not that it matters, not like they have a chance to beat the hackers anyway. Even Apple couldn't beat Geohot and their scare tactics aren't scaring him and Graf doesn't seem to be scared either.

 

[Bladexdsl]

i only have 2 words for sony