| o_O.Q said:
true but they have no right to aquiring content for free and disturbing the activities of others, two things which they have demonstrated on several occasions that they hold no reservations about and no one should have to suffer from their activities "I want you to prove..." i can't but to call that advertising in this context is absurd imo "it would make a perfect, cheap Linux box" $600 dollars for a device to run linux is cheap? what would you usually pay on a pc for linux? |
I agree. Piracy is bad, but punishing those who have no intention of piracy is just as bad. Where is the justification for control over hardware purchased by somebody else, in order to control the few bad eggs? There's been a lot of shooting sprees over there lately, should you take all the guns away in response? If it were government, many would accuse it of being this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny_state
...and when it's a multinational conglomerate, in many ways it's much worse. This is no different to Sony's rootkit scandal. Hidden rootkits were placed on a user's computer in order to track how they were using their music disc. In other words, punishing all in order to subdue the few...
$599 was the original price. I believe there were one or two price cuts before the Slim model came out, too. People were still looking at it as a game system/media player, probably just like the Xbox 360. Who is to say that Sony's decision to include Linux capability was enough to sway those who were "sitting on the fence" into Sony's court?
