Sony Told To Pay Finnish Man 100 Euros For Removing OtherOS
from the time-for-others-to-ask dept
As you may recall, Sony decided to delete its OtherOS feature on PlayStation 3 devices, despite it being a key selling point for many. It was a rude reminder that thanks to today's laws, sometimes you don't really own what you think you own. Of course this has also resulted in a class action lawsuit against Sony (and, less directly to Sony's legal attack on Geohot for restoring the feature). However, Slashdot points us to the news that the Finnish Consumer Complaints Board has said that Sony should pay 100 euros to a guy who complained about the deleted feature:The CCB said that the removal of OtherOS crippled console features that were present at the time of purchase, and agreed that consumers should be compensated. It recommended that the manufacturer and seller of the console pay €100 jointly to compensate the man.Unfortunately, it appears that the Consumer Complaints Board has no enforcement ability... but that its rulings are frequently used by courts in dealing with disputes. Thus, it seems that Finnish PS3 owners might want to see if they can start some sort of legal action to get their €100 back from Sony for taking away a key feature that was used in marketing the PS3.
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Guess the headline should read
Sony Politely Asked To Pay Finnish Man 100 Euros For Removing OtherOS
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Do it
Do it, doitdoitdoit. Sony needs bitch slapped for taking advertised and used features out of someone else's hardware. I can see no better place to bitch slap them then in their wallets.
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What needs bitch slapped is this idea that we do not own the hardware that we paid good money for. We need court precedent that either says "yes, you own your hardware" or "no, you lease your hardware".
It bodes ill for consumers if manufacturers are permitted to require mandatory updates that revoke advertised features from a product after it has been sold.
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Though, the Linux thumpers should be foaming at the mouth over this. Getting a Linux box in every house could have been the tipping point to topple the monolith that is Microsoft.
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Well, then here's what's next...
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Hotz originally hacked 3.15 using a Tweezer Attack. A Tweezer Attack consists of taking tweezers and touching them to the memory chip at the right time, hoping you glitch one of the memory accesses. Hotz's code just made it more likely to succeed with the tweezers. You still need to short out address pins.
Read that carefully again. shorting address pins with tweezers[/b]. Sounds like the kinda thing that's likely to destroy a PS3.
Other OS did not enable piracy for Joe Pirate. Other OS was just a potential attack vector for reading protected memory. Removing Other OS once the attackers breached the front gate is like closing the barn door after the horse has left.
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I hope...
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Rootkits in 85 on Audio CDs
Rootkits on PC games Currently ( SECUROM )
Then they use bait and switch marketing.
Their network is toast anyway!
Goodbye and Good Riddance Sony!
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Copyright Infringement 'Logic'
After all, it is copyright law that Sony is leaning on to enforce this bait and switch.
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Example: You take your car in for a recall and they modify the software on your computer module so that you can't roll down your windows, you'd make a stink about that right?
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lol, it hasn't stopped that... It's only stopped hobbyists from messing around with it.
That's ok, Linux loaded just fine on my non-sony PC. I'm not a Sony hater or Fanboi - but it was a STUPID move by Sony.
My son has one - just for gaming... If I could have loaded Linux on it and ran it as a media server/data server - I might have bought 4 of them. No lie.
But as it stand now, just have the one in my son's room for games.. that he rarely plays.
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So they're going to spend $100 + (insert large number) to get back $100. Our legal system at work.
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Sure, they really only profit the lawyers, but that's a small price to pay for the smiting of one's enemies. ;)
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Well all the Sony Fanboys
Maybe if they had spent a bit more time securing their network instead of trying to prevent their paying customers from running Linux on a PS3 they wouldn't now be facing this new PR disaster (one seems to surpass all of Sony's previous PR disasters).
The lesson is clear: stay as far away from Sony products as you can.
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