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sergiodaly on 02 March 2011
Porcupine_I said:

hey, if the court rules that LG is to recieve a share of the PS3 profits until now, LG might end up paying Sony

i LOL at this statment... good one sr.

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Alby_da_Wolf on 02 March 2011
kowenicki said:
justinian said:

Some of you are so desperate for Sony to suffer it is as if the company is personally responsible for some ill doing on your part, akind to murder of a relative. I could never hate..or to be honest, love a company to such extremes...to any extremes for that matter.

I don't pretend to know the eventual outcome but I know the people in charge are a lot more intelligent and experience in these particular matters than most of us.

Therefore I am willing to bet this is resolved (because it benefits both parties, regardless of the wild speculation going on around here) between the two comapnies.

Some of you seem to think this is a foregone conclusion, wake up.

LG is playing a taking a serious gamble here, let's not forget, and if it backfires as a well-read member pointed out, it could be the end of LG and Sony collecting the compensation. The stakes are far too high for this not be resolved out of court or otherwise.

Edit: Not the end of LG literally, but as an analyst pointed out, they will have to pay Sony an astonishing amount of money.

Actually I think most people here also think it will be resolved quickly...

Who has said anything other than that?  The only people reacting in a strange way are a few Sony fans who now think LG is the anti-christ for defending itself against an earlier injuction issued by Sony by way of a barganing tool presumably...   

Didn't you really see the Sony haters too? Not that Sony wasn't looking for this with its suing lust lately, but I'm sure you can tell those just stating this from the haters.



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Xen on 02 March 2011
kowenicki said:
Tony_Stark said:
Xen said:
Tony_Stark said:
Xen said:
Tony_Stark said:
Xen said:
radiantshadow92 said:

sucks for anyone that is looking to buy a ps3 (if this goes on past 3 weeks)

It's only for 10 days ATM.

Still, it's no good. Especially given that LG's products are vastly inferior to Sony's.


Lol, yeah. Sony's TV's DROOL in comparison to LG's, both in terms of picture quality and design.

Back on topic, that's seriously messed up, but I'm sure Sony will settle if they feel they can't win...I thought they paid royalties to all the contributers of Bluray anyway.

There, I fixed it for ya. You can thank me tomorrow.

Now I fixed it...and no, I will not thank you for trying to say something that is completely untrue.

Your stubborness does not reflect well on Iron Man my friend.

Also, yours is untrue :P


Lol, no.

 

BTW, my opinion is hereby reguarded, without question, as fact!

http://www.stuff.tv/top-10s/tvs

http://www.lcdtvbuyingguide.com/best-movie-tv.html

http://www.home-entertainment-news.co.uk/best-led-tv (Samsung sheer dominates that list, Sony is 2nd, LG is like... 4th)

I can cherrypick as well.



Kasz216 on 02 March 2011
disolitude said:

Perhaps Sony should take some lawyers of Geohotz case and put them to use here?


I'm interested to see how many people change their opinions on IP law, now that Sony are the agressors... and much worse agressors at that.



Kasz216 on 02 March 2011
disolitude said:
Acevil said:
disolitude said:

Perhaps Sony should take some lawyers of Geohotz case and put them to use here?


I remember people saying LG will lose, and now they are winning. Kind of funny. 


yeah, you never know with these cases. I remember hearing Geohotz will win over sony too...hows that coming along again?

Actually, pretty well.

At the moment they're still in the "discovery" stage.  Sony is conceding ground on what they're aloud discovery with... and as far as anyone knows they still don't have any proof that ties him to the jursisdiction of California.



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Kasz216 on 02 March 2011
psrock said:
kowenicki said:
psrock said:
kowenicki said:
psrock said:
kowenicki said:
Carl2291 said:
chocoloco said:

I hope there is a war between North and South Koreans now and that LG gets bombed out of existance.

Harsh... Very harsh.


Harsh... what? hoping millions die in a war because Sony were (allegedly) light fingered on the IP of another company.... Very measured response I thought.   

Jesus.   

I am still waiting for all those people that applauded the EU for stopping MS bundling IE to come in and defend this decision too....  I might be waiting a while I think.

Very different cases though, but expected post from you.

and an expected response from you.

very different indeed: 

One was a company bundling free software with its OS, the other is a company (allegedly) stealing intellectual property from a rival....   (I actually doubt this will stick tbh but I cant believe some of the responses in here)

Bundling or forcing people to use their crappy browser. And something needed to be done about it. I wish we can stop them from shoving bing in our faces as well. 

forcing?  crappy browser? shoving bing in our faces?   you seem angry...

You don't know much I hate IE, hate it with a passion. when i get a new pc the first thing i always do is get firefox. You had to bring it up. 

The fact that you get firefox proves nobody is forced to use it?



Kasz216 on 02 March 2011
hehey said:
siphillis said:
hehey said:

Ok, i dont know jack shti about pattents or any of that stuff, but if LG wins what happens?, Sony wont be able to sell PS3's ever again? or is taht even possible?


sony has to pay royalties for every ps3 sold or a defined amount one time.

but they can still make and sell them?

If LG wins?   Only if LG lets them.   If particularly vindicitive they can force Sony to pay them money for every PS3 they sold, then force Sony to discontinue and destroy any unsold PS3s.



Skeeuk on 02 March 2011

since the begining of this gen theres been all kinds of claims of this and that. whats this one about?



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Kasz216 on 02 March 2011
kowenicki said:
justinian said:

Some of you are so desperate for Sony to suffer it is as if the company is personally responsible for some ill doing on your part, akind to murder of a relative. I could never hate..or to be honest, love a company to such extremes...to any extremes for that matter.

I don't pretend to know the eventual outcome but I know the people in charge are a lot more intelligent and experience in these particular matters than most of us.

Therefore I am willing to bet this is resolved (because it benefits both parties, regardless of the wild speculation going on around here) between the two comapnies.

Some of you seem to think this is a foregone conclusion, wake up.

LG is playing a taking a serious gamble here, let's not forget, and if it backfires as a well-read member pointed out, it could be the end of LG and Sony collecting the compensation. The stakes are far too high for this not be resolved out of court or otherwise.

Edit: Not the end of LG literally, but as an analyst pointed out, they will have to pay Sony an astonishing amount of money.

Actually I think most people here also think it will be resolved quickly...

Who has said anything other than that?  The only people reacting in a strange way are a few Sony fans who now think LG is the anti-christ for defending itself against an earlier injuction issued by Sony by way of a barganing tool presumably...   


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.



mantlepiecek on 02 March 2011
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.