Lawsuit filed against Sony's anti-lawsuit provision

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Icyedge said:

thranx said:

Icyedge said:

makingmusic476 said:
This could be a pretty important case. It's likely to set a precedent for how the courts handle similar clauses being implemented by companies like Microsoft and EA into their own ToSes.

The basis is somewhat wrong though, the anti class action lawsuit provision is for their free PSN service not for the hardware you own. And yet, it doesnt mean that you cant personally sue Sony over a lost of your personal information, its solely for class action lawsuit. The comment from Pachter is actually pretty reasonable, have a look at his video.

Have fun taking on sony's lawyer all on your own. Class action lawsuits are there to level the playing field so companies can't just bully a lone consumer around. It is hard to recoup small amounts of monetary damage unless through a class action lawsuit. And the precedant has already been set by the AT and T case it looks like, so perhaps this is a challenge to that precedent

I know but its just for their PSN service not for the hardware as a whole. Console breaking in too big of a proportion, as seen with the PS2 disc reading error or Xbox RROD, would be impossible to prove as a sole consumer (anecdotic), but thats not what this anti lawsuit provision is about.

doesn't matter to me what its for, its just the fact that they are adding that provision. Its an anti consumer regulation and I dont approve of consumers having their rights striped. By any compnay. If we let one do it they will all do it and we as consumers will be less empowered because of it. Corporations have plenty of laws on their side and the money to back up lawsuits, indviduals do not.