LG Asks US Gov't To Block Import Of All PS3s Over Patent Infringement
from the but-of-course dept
If Sony can't kill off interest in the PS3 by playing whac-a-mole with jailbreak code, perhaps it can get some assistance from the US government. It appears that LG, using the ITC loophole is asking the International Trade Commission to block the import of PS3s into the US for supposedly violating four of its patents.The patents in question:
- 7,701,835: Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of data streams recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
- 7,577,080: Recording medium with a linking area thereon and apparatus and methods for forming recording, and reproducing the recording medium
- 7,619,961: Read-only recording medium and reproducing method thereof
- 7,756,398: Recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle stream for updating palette information
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Point out the bad guy
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/lg-files-itc-complaint-against-sony-goes-blow-for-blow/
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Uh, who is running these companies?
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I strongly approve!
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money for old rope
'Block Used Games' Patent
http://www.1up.com/news/sony-games-patent-resurfaces
http://psp.nowgamer.com/news/4081/ sony-exploring-online-pass-options
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-patents-controller-that-works- with-wii-xbox-360-164275.phtml
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"If Sony can't kill off interest in the PS3 by playing whac-a-mole with jailbreak code"
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It's bad enough that they're trying to extend the lifetime of the consoles past their traditional 5-year period. It's killing PC gaming, and it's slowing down hardware and software development across the board. And now they're trying to lock it down further.
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If I put a game disk in a console, it's more likely to work then a PC game which has become a real crap shoot. The requirements on the box don't mean squat, anymore.
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it's not dying at all. if you look at the hours logged by people playing solitaire and mafia wars, the PC beats all other gaming devices by a hundredfold.
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I've had major problems with only one company's games, and that's Ubisoft. I will never ever buy an Ubisoft game again, after being forced to crack a game that I legitimately bought, and for which there was literally no other way to play the game outside of the crack. My crime?
Using Windows 7. And this is for a game that was less than six months old at the time of purchase, and for which there was no response to my requests for help.
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my mother, my sister, my wife and my kids all complain that i won't "allow" them to have things like iphones.
it's not like i have any authority to stop them from buying the things they want to buy, but as their only source of free tech support, they always dread me saying "i told you this would happen."
extrapolating that, for every nerd that is capable of jail breaking something that sony pissed off, there is something like 5 consumers who trust that nerd's recommendations.
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It's good to see major players get into this game.
It's also guaranteed that as soon as a major player gets barred using the ITC loophole, that's going to disappear...quickly.
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they probably got the patents through an acquisition or via work they had done in one of those areas i would guess.... havnt really read the actual patents.
not that it either makes it better or excuses their actions, but there ya go...
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