I just wanted to express my gratitude to you. You've done a tremendous job here. I've enjoyed reading your posts as well as others on/. Good luck in your future endeavors, and enjoy your family, time and relaxation.
To a certain extent you are right, the flip side of the coin is that they sold a product that allowed me to make a choice amongst other available products (Xbox, WII). Their box/marketing literature didn't say you can run linux (for at least 1 year after which we have the right to remove it). If I had any inclination that this was a possible outcome for a product that I was about to purchase, I'd saved myself a couple hundred bucks and bought a WII or XBOX. Screw Sony, I'm done with them, never shall I purchase another product of theirs.
Hello, I don't work for Sony, therefore your analogy of bringing home a modded console really doesn't apply. I bought the system. I didn't rent it, I bought it, I own it. If I decide to run Homebrew software on the 'Hardware', that's my decision, Not Sony's. They let the cat out of the bag when they allowed me to load up Linux. They made the offer (to sell the unit) I accepted the offer (to purchase) = Agreement/Contract. How can they go back and now start modifying this agreement? Please Sony, send me my money back so I can get rid of this Pile of unusable crap - including the games I've purchased on and off the network. After all they breached the contract.
Class Action lawsuits in this country are near pointless in terms of causing redress, and barely hurt the companies they're brought against. In a lot of bigger companies they're seen as a regular cost of business. As said in other posts, enjoy your coupon that ends up making you spend more money.
If you REALLY wanted to get redress, take sony to small claims court. $50-100 filing fee(75 in my state), you can get damages up to $5000, and you can make sony pay the court fee upon winning too.
They'll either start settling cases, or waste a lot more sending representation to win. So sue em for the cost a new PS3, since that's what it will take to restore you the original functionality that they took away ( one PS3 to play games and do PSN, one to run linux, since you can't do it on both anymore).
I think the best outcome for a class action is that they have to "undo" this mess and leave things as is. If their intention was to stop the hacking of the product, then that's their problem and they'll have to deal with that on their own dime (Not mine). I'm not buying anymore 'Sucky" crap either way. Companies like this don't deserve my hard earned cash.
That's not the point. The point is that I purchased my PS3 Instead of Xbox or Wii because it had this capability. In addition to using my Linux system, I could still enjoy playing games that I already owned (PS2) and new games purchased on DVD or through the Network. I established a contract w/ "Sucky" to own a machine that had these capabilities. Now "Sucky" comes around and says We've decided that you shouldn't have these things anymore (for whatever reason). They have now gone back and broken our agreement. They should pay. It's not about whether I agree to the firmware upgrade or not, They've changed the agreement. Just for the record, I'm done with "Sucky" whether they correct this or not. My spell checker seems to be broke. I meant to say Sony not "Sucky".
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I just wanted to express my gratitude to you. You've done a tremendous job here. I've enjoyed reading your posts as well as others on /. Good luck in your future endeavors, and enjoy your family, time and relaxation.
To a certain extent you are right, the flip side of the coin is that they sold a product that allowed me to make a choice amongst other available products (Xbox, WII). Their box/marketing literature didn't say you can run linux (for at least 1 year after which we have the right to remove it). If I had any inclination that this was a possible outcome for a product that I was about to purchase, I'd saved myself a couple hundred bucks and bought a WII or XBOX. Screw Sony, I'm done with them, never shall I purchase another product of theirs.
Hello, I don't work for Sony, therefore your analogy of bringing home a modded console really doesn't apply. I bought the system. I didn't rent it, I bought it, I own it. If I decide to run Homebrew software on the 'Hardware', that's my decision, Not Sony's. They let the cat out of the bag when they allowed me to load up Linux. They made the offer (to sell the unit) I accepted the offer (to purchase) = Agreement/Contract. How can they go back and now start modifying this agreement? Please Sony, send me my money back so I can get rid of this Pile of unusable crap - including the games I've purchased on and off the network. After all they breached the contract.
Class Action lawsuits in this country are near pointless in terms of causing redress, and barely hurt the companies they're brought against. In a lot of bigger companies they're seen as a regular cost of business.
As said in other posts, enjoy your coupon that ends up making you spend more money.
If you REALLY wanted to get redress, take sony to small claims court.
$50-100 filing fee(75 in my state), you can get damages up to $5000, and you can make sony pay the court fee upon winning too.
They'll either start settling cases, or waste a lot more sending representation to win.
So sue em for the cost a new PS3, since that's what it will take to restore you the original functionality that they took away ( one PS3 to play games and do PSN, one to run linux, since you can't do it on both anymore).
I think the best outcome for a class action is that they have to "undo" this mess and leave things as is. If their intention was to stop the hacking of the product, then that's their problem and they'll have to deal with that on their own dime (Not mine). I'm not buying anymore 'Sucky" crap either way. Companies like this don't deserve my hard earned cash.
That's not the point. The point is that I purchased my PS3 Instead of Xbox or Wii because it had this capability. In addition to using my Linux system, I could still enjoy playing games that I already owned (PS2) and new games purchased on DVD or through the Network. I established a contract w/ "Sucky" to own a machine that had these capabilities. Now "Sucky" comes around and says We've decided that you shouldn't have these things anymore (for whatever reason). They have now gone back and broken our agreement. They should pay. It's not about whether I agree to the firmware upgrade or not, They've changed the agreement. Just for the record, I'm done with "Sucky" whether they correct this or not. My spell checker seems to be broke. I meant to say Sony not "Sucky".
Hmm let's see, Oh, "Not having to buy Oil from Saudis and Venezuelan dictator wannabe's ever again". No brainer!
Just Stop Watching. Stop paying for Cable. Don't give them so much leverage by being one of their lemmings...