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PlayStation Sales Halted?
Narf Narf writes "According to Japan Today, the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its U.S. unit to pay $90.7 million in damages to Immersion Corp. for patent infringement over controllers used with PlayStation game consoles. In the ruling handed down Thursday, the federal court also ordered Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Entertainment America Inc. to stop selling the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 game consoles using Dualshock controllers as well as more than 40 game software products." Update: 03/28 04:51 GMT by Z : ...which was followed immediately by an injunction, to allow Sony time for an appeal, and a compulsory licensing agreement.
Flamebait?
Is the truth now regarded as flamebait?
X-Box controllers are designed for Halo. One game. That's all. Pretty fucking useless for anything else, and not even as good as a mouse / KB for Halo!
That was classic intercourse!
The main point at issue here on Slashdot is not whether the ruling was correct according to the law, but whether the law is good.
I'm finally getting the hang of it for copyrights:
Copyright is good when it protects open source.
Copyright is bad when it's a "big, evil corporation".
Since the GPL doesn't rely on patents, what formulation should we use? Patents bad unless they belong to a big company that we hope will protect us? I'm having a touch time figuring this one out, and would feel so much better if the hive mind could just spoon feed me the answer.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
For all intesive purposes though, they are seprate companies, although the leaders take thier cue (to some extent) from Japan.
Sony of American could go bankrupt (in theory) but that wouldn't mean that Sony Japan is. It would hurt them no doubt..but they are seperate.
Or am i buying shares of a Japaense company on the NYSE?
Maybe that's not how it is in India, but maybe you should learn more about US law before spouting off. I wouldn't claim to know how India does business, after all.