Sony's Removal of "Other OS" May Be Against EU Law

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Khuutra said:

Tridrakious said:
It's Sony's machine. Technically they can do whatever they with it. By playing it, you've agreed to their Terms and Services.

While it sucks that Sony is taking away a feature from the system. GET OVER IT!

Again: if the ToS go against trade laws, then the ToS is not valid.

I don't know if it's actually against trade laws, but the EULA and the ToS won't mean diddly poop if they go against EU law.

What a voice of reason in the thread.

I don't think people realize that what SONY is doing is a horrible practice. I am willing to bet my ass on the line that if SONY said tomorrow "We're gonna remove the ability of the PS3 to play games." Most of you will start bitching about it, well on this stie everyone will spin it like it's amazing and how it should be done, but enough digressing. Removing the Linux capability is the exact same thing as removing the ability to play games or run Bluray discs.

While the cell processor was not all that great for video games, it's absolutely amazing for outright brute force calculations? As such, the PS3 is a far better machine for computing and data centers than a gaming device. The linux allowed all that to be used, and I am betting my left nut that there are people who are indeed using the PS3 as such. Now they will be all screwed.