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Dutch Court Lifts PlayStation 3 Seizure Order

Posted by Soulskill on from the on-the-defensive-for-once dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The recent European import ban against the PlayStation 3 has been lifted. Reportedly, LG had already succeeded in seizing about 300,000 PlayStations, but a court in the Dutch city of The Hague overturned the prejudgment seizure order and told LG to return all PS3s to Sony. Sony uses the Netherlands as its main entry point for all European PlayStation sales, and can now return to normal. While the temporary ban has been lifted, LG can still assert its Blu-ray patents against Sony in a regular proceeding, which will go to trial on November 18. LG asks for patent royalties of $2.50 per Blu-ray device and believes Sony already owes it $150-180 million."

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  1. Bluray is a mistake by devxo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is why I wish HD-DVD would have won. Bluray is patent encumbered, has mandatory DRM and is controlled by todays most evil firm Sony. Now it's too late and there is no competition anymore.. Say what you will, but Microsoft was fighting for the greater good with HD-DVD. Now we get all this shit from Sony.

    This is what happens when we let money talk and assholes win.

    1. Re:Bluray is a mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The people in charge of creating new content mediums are the same people creating the content. We are never going to get a non-patent-encumbered, DRM-absent physical format.

  2. Re:We are NOT under sea level by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He said sea level. not sea. He is correct. I live below sea level.