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Sony Under Investigation by DOJ

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-a-megacorp-get-a-break dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As the DOJ continues its investigation into RAM price fixing, it has started looking at Sony's operations. With all the negative press Sony has been getting, this couldn't come at a worse time." From the article: "The Japanese company received a subpoena from the Justice Department's antitrust division seeking information about Sony's static random access memory, or SRAM, business, company spokesman Atsuo Omagari said. 'Sony intends to cooperate fully with the DOJ in what appears to be an industrywide inquiry,' the company said in a short statement."

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  1. Are you sure isn't not just by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...the author of TFA that's painting the ugly picture on this issue?

    "As the DOJ continues its investigation into RAM price fixing, it has started looking at Sony's operations."

    "'Sony intends to cooperate fully with the DOJ in what appears to be an industrywide inquiry,' the company said in a short statement."

    So in other words...

    DOJ: "Let's see... next on the list is... Sony, you're up."

    Greimel: "Lookit! Sony fucks up yet again, and then there's a PS3, and the 'sploding batteries, and Iwo Jima, and..."

    Really now, the majority of TFA seems to be about Sony's other fuck ups rather than any incriminating substance regarding the inquiry.

  2. Re:Holy FUD Batman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "So the DOJ appears to be investigating every manufacturer..."

    Incorrect.

    "....and there is no info even hinting that Sony did everything wrong."

        Not coherent enough to be incorrect. It's a story about the impact of a DOJ SRAM (as opposed to the DRAM part which apparently caused your 'every manufacturer' confusion) investigation into a long and established company already suffering a number of other self-inflicted wounds. Why the tizzy, do you own Sony stock bunky?

        For my part, Sony shifted from an engineering to a IP-lawyer/marketing driven company almost 20 years ago. They're a pox and their demise would be welcome news.