| dsister said: @Greenmedic EULAs don't supercede law. As the PS3 fat was sold at many retailers with a "Supports Other OS" and Sony making several mentions of the Other OS taking it away was a form of false advertising and there were lawsuits and refunds to be had after it. Also one of the advertising points was the ability to play all PS3 games. If you didn't update then you would lose that ability. So you either lost one thing or the other. Linux or playing new games. It's completely in Sony's rights to block access PSN, but not for legitimate users to play new games |
Legally, there was no mention of "Supports Linux" advertised anywhere. If there was, feel free to direct everyone to it.
If SCE wanted to play legal games, seeing as how there seem to be those who think they really know the law, they could just release a not-Linux "Other OS" that was effectively useless.
If anyone wants to argue that they should legally be able to use any firmware on their console dating back to say 2006, claiming that they must legally be able to play any current software being released, many of which won't run without memory optimized firmware updates (for those who don't understand how that works, current versions of firmware use less RAM than older versions, freeing up available memory for developers to optimize their games), they can feel free to hold out a tin cup for donations for their legal case too.
