Comments on: National class action lawsuit launched against Sony

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.

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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”.

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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

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By: accord

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

how can i get in on this

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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.

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By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:04:50 +0000

I have recently had this strike down my PS3. I want in just to get the thing fixed. I don’t want to pay to fix something that is less than a year old.

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By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:05:24 +0000

Well said.

I have the same exact experience and feelings. My machine had less than a 100 hours on it. Ridiculous. And worst was Sony Support’s lack of any concern.

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By: David

David — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:29:01 +0000

This is rediculous. I just had the update from Sony, an hour later I turn it back on to watch the end of my movie and nothing works. I googled the update and found all of these blogs. has anyone successfully fixed theirs?

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By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:24:10 +0000

1)Ps3 working
2) 3.15 update
3)Ps3 NOT working.
Why should i have to pay to get this fixed when the update made my Ps3 inoperable?
Does this make any sense to you?
I dont care if it is out of warranty or not.
That does not give you the right to make me update to a update that makes my system unplayable.
I will be contacting the BBB and the news media if this is not resolved.I see I am not the only one with this problem as I have read many blogs about this issue.

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