Who remembers Lik-sang?

[Bodhesatva]

MikeB said:
@ shams

completely unreasonable reasons (selling their products)

They illegally sold Asian consoles into the European market. This happening on a large scale would be a logistical nightmare for Sony, PSPs and PS3s are updated through localized firmware updates and aren't fully compatible for instance due to agreements in the movie industry to have different release shedules for different markets.

Victims:
- Retailers who do abide by laws.
- Sony, logistics and support difficulties
- Possibly consumers, who think they buy a second hand European device (they are living in Europe afterall) and experiencing problems.

After lawsuits from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony, the company knew they were in for trouble if they continued the road they were stubbornly taking.

You can take consumers off your list of victims, I think. Lik-Sang is a very unusual site that is particularly asian in appearance. It had giant labels all over it telling you how it worked, so I really would be surprised if even a single person purchased anything on their site by accident. 

This is a lawsuit that was done to benefit Sony and the European retailers that sold Sony products. It was not done to benefit consumers; in fact, I'm quite sure that most (all?) of the consumers who purchased items on Lik-Sang would prefer that the site was still open. In short: the suit was done to make Sony money, even at the expense of customer satisfaction. Those types of suits aren't uncommon, and they are universally reviled by the consumers involved.

Frankly, I don't think it's a huge deal. Companies do this type of thing all the time, and telling a company not to make more money is a little silly, especially when they do so by precisely following the law. It's an image problem, not a philosophical one.