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

[WereKitten]

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.

True.

Still, let's put it like this: you don't lose Linux as long as you refrain from updating. Thus you could lament that if you do so you're losing the right to sign in PSN for e.g. your free multiplayer gaming, and to get updates for BluRay new standards and for system software.

And still, I'm pretty sure that no trade law can oblige Sony to keep offering such services forever and at the same conditions for all users. The users did not sign with Sony an explicit contract to get those future services, after all. And those services will, obviously, stop one day, and the users agreed in the ToS that they understand the volatilty of the offer.

Once more: I think that Sony's move is brutal and a very bad business practice. But I think it's naive to hope that a law can enforce Sony giving users for free what it offered for free when they bought the console.

Now, what I can see as realistic is a class action if many future games require an updated fw, because a case could be made that the console is not fulfilling its purpose (play games).