Regarding OtherOS removal legality

[yanamaster]

Xero said:

Zkuq said:
AFAIK a EULA can't be in contradiction with a law. That said, the oft-quote 'law' we have here might not be a law but a directive that tells how laws should be created instead of being a law itself. But I'm not sure, I'm not going to look into this matter so much.

I dunno. I don't think I can take that EU directive seriously. There's a ridiculous amount of stuff that goes on which breaches it every day. 
Directives are as you say, not law. Directives are just directions for the law of each member state. Considering what goes on in industry every day, I don't believe there are laws in place that specifically enforce the extract in question without limitation. 

 

Actually you are wrong. The reason is that EU directives are basically laws under a different name, the interpretation is not really negotiable.

Of course the industries try to go around these directives, that's why consumers have to bring these kind of things to public information and inform the commissions that something is wrong. The EU doesn't invigilate the industries so it must be told first before they take action.

That's why it was a couple years after the iphone and ipods were introduced that the EU decided to take legal action against Apple and the same thing with Microsoft and their OS sale system in different countries.