Comments on: National class action lawsuit launched against Sony

By: LittleMEVCoBear

LittleMEVCoBear — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:17:57 +0000

Same thing happened to me after update 3.15, Final Fantasy 13 required me to update, the game started freezing until the console locked up and now will not play any games, DVD’s or Blue Ray disks. I have a Phat 60gig and up until this incident I have never had one problem with my console.
The only thing Sony said when I called customer service is send it to them they will repair it for $150, they did not even ask me what kind of problems the console was having, as if they already knew!
Now just today Sony sent me another TOS agreement wanting me to agree to it or I am now not allowed on PSN, gee I guess that makes my PS3 and PSP absolutely worthless, I just want my money back, this is baiting and switching being done by SCEA!! First they take other OS off so I cannot use Linux and now If I do not agree to let them do what ever they want to my PS3 or PSP then I cannot use services that made me buy the PS3 to start with, Bait and Switching at it’s finest by SCEA..

By: andy lee

andy lee — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:13:12 +0000

well now using my ps3 as a ornament as no use for anything else since update —— it — come on sony sort it

By: James

James — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:17:42 +0000

Whats really pathetic is how many people are so gullible to fall for sonys obvious ploys worse yet sony is still perpetuating their “firmware upgrade” scams with the latest 3.21 stating “upgade & lose features you paid for or be summarily banned from psn”. but it gets worse, many such as myself were not given the choice, upon connecting to psn the downloand & install commenced with no option to abort only to discover afterwards many other files all of them legit had also been removed.

This final comment is directed to SONY: treat your paying customers as criminals and you in turn will be treated as criminals as we your paying customers abandon sony in favour of your direct competitors.

By: andy lee

andy lee — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:35:30 +0000

my ps3 wont work with any game or dvd after update v301 was installed phone sony surport in uk where i live and told them how it doent work after update i was told by support it would cost me £150 pounds for repair to something i havenot boke i have every sony console you can think off ps1 ps2 psp ps3 that without dvd players and minidisk in fact used to buy sony because thought was best and up to ps3 no problem

I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER SONY PRODULT AFTER THE WAY I HAVE BEEN LOOK AFTER ON THIS MATTER IM LEFT WITH A PS3 THAT USELESS THANKS TO UPDATE I HOPE CLASS ACTION RUINS SONY

ANDY LEE

By: BMArmstrong

BMArmstrong — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:18:11 +0000

Rochon Genova law firm in Toronto are handling this class action suit.

By: BMArmstrong

BMArmstrong — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:13:04 +0000

This type of wholesale boycott is EXACTLY what is needed to fix these companies attitudes!I concur wholehearteadly! We need to send a very strong message to these people that we will not tolerate this at all! But,alas,I fear,most consumers are “sheep being led to the slaughter”.Brainwashed individuals that need their “fix”,or addiction.

By: BMArmstrong

BMArmstrong — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:56:05 +0000

You should care! This should be about accountability on the part of manufacturers everywhere! No mater who it is, they must remain responsible for their products and the people purchasing them. Having said that, the onous is going to be on the plaintiff in such a tort action to prove beyond a resonable doubt,culpability on the part of the manufacturer. Did they know before deploying the firmware update, it might cause these problems? Did consumers ignore a warning and deploy it anyway? At any rate, they should fix them as a “goodwill gesture”.

By: polux06

polux06 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:58:36 +0000

the list of ps3 freezing can’t read disk players affected.

I have the now famouss problem myself and reading about it made me realise that there are a lot of people living this hell. I want to make an official list of player having this problem to see the magnitude of it.

come here to read more about it and be added to the list:

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&thread.id=4284886&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

By: accord

accord — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:18:05 +0000

how can i get in on this

By: dc

dc — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:36:53 +0000

Patent infringment ,destroy them all with update, shut em down fix the ones with new chip that are sent to sony, the rest are dead

CONSOLES NEWS
Future of Sony PS3 threatened by new lawsuit
All PlayStation 3 consoles could be impounded and destroyed
By James Rivington
July 31st 2007 | Tell us what you think [ 0 comments ]

The Sony PlayStation 3 is in enough trouble, without these kind of legal wranglings
The Sony PlayStation 3 ‘s IBM-built Cell processor infringes a 1991 hardware patent and all existing units should be impounded and destroyed. That’s according to a complaint filed against Sony which alleges that the PS3 Cell processor infringes US patent number 5,056,000.

If the complaint is upheld, Sony could amazingly be forced to destroy all its Cell processors and to redesign the PlayStation 3from the ground up.

The lawsuit was filed by US company Parallel Processing which says its patent, “Synchronized Parallel Processing with Shared Memory” was issued in October of 1991. The patent explains how new processor architecture could break a program “into smaller concurrent processes running in different parallel processors,” and then resynchronize them. This would make processing times much quicker.

“On information and belief, Defendant Sony Corporation of America has infringed and continues to infringe on the ’000 Patent by making, using, importing, offering for sale and/or selling products among other things, covered by one or more claims of the ’000 Patent, including, but not limited to, Sony Playstation 3,” states Parallel Processing in the lawsuit.

PS3 in more hot water
It says that Sony’s infringement of its patent has caused it irreparable harm and monetary damage.

Parallel Processing wants all PlayStation 3 consoles which use the Cell processor (that would be all of them) to be impounded and destroyed. It also wants Sony to say sorry, and to reimburse all the money it claims to have lost.

Of course, it’s extremely unlikely that Sony will be forced to do any of those things, but it’s certainly something to keep an eye on.