Sony Sued For Preventing PSN Users From Suing Sony

[Kasz216]

Lord Ciansworth said:

Kasz216 said:
A) Why are you argueing about Other OS when this is a lawsuit about EULA requiring you to not file lawsuits about anything?

B) A Court hd already ruled against Sony in that matter in I want to say sweeden.   An American court hasn't, although feasably could have, which is why Sony settled with Geohotz.  Sony was argueing two opposite arguements in court.  Had Geohotz been found guilty it ironically would of set precedent on the matter that could be cited to convict Sony.  All the Other OS Lawyer would of had to do was point out the conflciting arguements and the Geohotz conviction, and it'd of been over.

C) Additionally reserving the right to change things isn't a blanket legal defense.  If for example, sony had used that clause to update your PS3 to stop playing games.  You can bet Sony would lose that lawsuit.  This was more a case about how much more preiphery advertised features are rights.

B) I don't know if things would work out quite as black and white as all that.

C) Nobody, least of all me, is trying to argue it's a blanket legal defense. It certainly would not be a defence in the scenario you outlined. In the instance I referred to, however, it does offer them some legal protection. EULAs, after all, do exist for a reason and are not completely devoid of legal standing, as some would argue.

B)   Sony seemed to think so, regardless I think it pretty clearly disproves "no court would rule agains them."  A lot of these areas of legal framework have no concrete precedents or rulings for a reason.  Corporations don't want them to and will always settle because a judgement may help them in one case, but screw them in the next.

It's just like all the ridiculious patent jousting companies do.

C)  Not in the way your thinking.

What saved them protection was that the changes were outlined and the person had the ability to click yes or no.

Had sony exercised their right to "change anything" by just changing it through an automatic patch... they probably would of lost.