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Kasz216 on 02 March 2011
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mantlepiecek said:
Kasz216 said:

Obviously, no doubt this is just an "Ace in the hole" LG had saved up for if Sony ever sued them.  "You sue us? we could actually sue you for worse infringements!"


It's just a case of Sony's over litigating, sue anyone we doing something we don't like style backfiring on them because they are actually sueing a large corporation this time instead of a private individual or a small company like an importer.

No doubt Sony will just lose a small amount of money, have to cover LG's leal fees and end up with a bruised ego.

So its been decided then? You seem so impartial yet I am sure you can't give one proof of sony losing.

Fun fact: PS3 exports are now only banned in netherlands. Not in the entire europe and only for 10 days. 

If Sony wants they can go another way to export PS3s into europe legally.

Its still not happened anywhere except for netherlands. Its something like how geohotz was ordered to show his HDDs to Sony, doesn't mean Sony won or geohotz lost.

I like how you talk about if LG wins. What if they lose? Same things gonna happen to them.

That's not if LG wins.  That's if there is a settlement.  Which there is about a 95% chance of happening since it's likely they'd either both win, or both lose... and I doubt they want BOTH of their products off the market.

Reason Sony would pay LG the money is because Sony's products are worth more to them.  It's like playing a game of chicken, but the drop off to one cliff is 3 feet, and the dropoff to the other is 9 feet.  Unless Sony ends up being really pigheaded...

The whole thing really just illustrates how really stupid IP laws are.  They create a giant net, that basically no company isn't caught in.  They're ALL guilty of IP infringments, it's just rare that you see two companies with the resources to fight each other end up in conflict.