All PS3′s blocked from entering Europe “for at least 10 days”

Heh, Sony seem to spend half their time in court these days.

wut the hell , f*** u lg

Playstation 3 is a disaster for Sony.

I think they hate this machine so much… From hacks, to stupid patent shit or courts…

It’s a disaster of MEGATON proportion.

So what’s the beef? I thought Sony were big movers and shakers in the development of blu-ray, what Patents are they supposedly violating, and don’t Sony have any of their own?

While Nintendo and Microsoft doing their job, Sony faces some serious shit.

Before everybody starts spurting out gloom and doom, remember that this is only a preliminary ruling, and that the case hasn’t even been heard yet. Sony will appeal the decision tomorrow morning, and the seized shipments will likely be released.

I wouldn’t want to get ahead of myself, but yikes.

EU is where PS3 is the strongest.

This could hurt, esp if it gets any worse for Sony. Lest it isn’t holiday time. Springs sales are pretty slow anyways.

Yeah agreed, its pretty bad but nowhere near as bad as it would of been if this was the end of the year before Christmas.

What the hell! What kind of a git approved this move? LG obviously don’t care about consumers wanting to buy a PS3 in Europe then, surely there are easier ways of settling their ridiculous dispute?

Funny thing that my Ps3 is connected to LG HDTV and they love each other

“LG obviously don’t care about consumers wanting to buy a PS3″
Why would they? All corporations care about is money, when they decide they want more they go through a list of their patents & start suing anyone who has done something similar.
In my opinion, the laws are too strict & misguided regarding patents, if it’s directly imitating it then sue away, but I don’t think most features should become copyrighted otherwise the consumers suffer more than anyone else. But what do I know, I’m not an expert in copyright law so my views & opinions mean nothing.

Oh Sony & your patent infringement… didn’t you learn from that mess with the Dualshock? I’m surprised Geohot & his hacker friends ain’t using it as a excuse for their actions.

#11 I’m can’t profess to be an expert either xD.

But, it’s odd that they’re only complaining now, I mean the PS3′s been on sale for over 4 years. Couple that with Sony’s claim back in December that LG is infringing on it’s own patents. And you come out with a very childish legal battle in my opinion.

@10 lol, same here.

btw, I sense a huge shitstorm for both Sony and LG in the coming week.

@13 “I’m can’t” Grammar fail! xD.

Well maybe next time sony wont launch a troyas horse i mean, a new format player in a gaming device, instead they focus on a gaming console with a new format player added. i hope so.

Hmmm. I wonder if my 42″ LG plasma is about to become an unauthorised peripheral according to the new eula

Shit! I finally bought a PS3 and now look….I wondered what that old gypsy women was muttering at me as I walked out the shop!!

@16 Umm… this might come back to me in the ass but I feel compelled to ask, what exactly is a “troyas horse”? .

^ Better question would be: ‘What does your post say? It makes no sense’.

im a little confused but is LG and sony not working together and can someone please explain how this can affect us?

(basicly i dont get one bit of this)

@20 My next question was gonna be “Is English your second language, or are you actually illiterate?”

@21
In a nutshell: LG is blocking PS3 commercialization in Europe (and beyond, it hopes) because it says Sony is infringing some copyright.

Its just another childish battle. Really, Sony are the big dogs and they know so once in a while they’ll pick on the smaller people. When they do so, they stir up some shit and the smaller people fight back with full force.

Im not a Sony fan. As a company, i really dont care for Sony and in fact the only thing Sony that i own is my PS3 (used to have a PSP and will have the NGP at launch). But to stop the sales of PS3 and alienate customers…not a smooth move LG, not smooth at all. If anything, this will affect LG’s image to consumers (mostly gamers)

@21 Back in December Sony accused LG of infringing on 7 of it’s patents relating to mobile phones. In retalition LG is now accusing Sony of infringing on it’s own patents relating to BluRay playback functionality on several of Sony’s products.

LG has obtained an “as of yet” temporary injunction preventing ps3′s from being imported into Europe. This is what I’ve gathered so far anyway xD.

As for what it means to consumers, at the moment probably not a lot

sony becomes a joke of a corporation, if even LG can harm them ^^

This is actually will be a disaster if Sony won’t solve this problem by 10 days.

Because their stock ends about in 3 weeks and they can lose a GIANT portion of sales in Europe. I mean every one of these people are going to get Xbox 360 or Wii.

I feel really bad for them because i own PS3.

Well, fair enough. If they sue a single hacker, then a company can sue them for copright-issues. It seems like the legal system is more like a karma issue for Sony.

wait they are going to stop selling ps3s all together in EU?
if so how did it come to this?

shit no its only or 10 days haha my bad

Holy shit, this could be the biggest gaming news story of the year if LG makes any ground…

I thought Sony were one of the developers of blu-ray along with Phillips. How can they violate a patent on their own technology? Anyways, I think LG will lose to sony in a court battle and seeing as they’re both suing each other I wouldn’t be suprised if they both just decide to drop it aftr a while to save the aggro.

One thing I don’t understand. If Sony did copy LG, why has it taken LG all this time to do something about it?

Sony will just settle out of court and pay them a fat stack of cash. Nothing major will come of this I’d wager

@33, Simple. It makes business sense. Most companies that due this kind of litigation all wait till they feel they can maximize return or establish grounds for business negotiation. You let a product build a head of steam first because it makes the payout bigger. No company gives a shit about the consumer, they are in business to make money. All the consumer friendly PR is just a facade.

@35 That’s what I was thinking. There really should be something to counter that issue though as they’re just taking the piss really :/

lol sony total joke

@37

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@Patrick Garratt, Please do us a favour & ban sony_sucks & his other troll accounts, it wouldn’t be a problem if everything they said wasn’t spamming the same thing over & over again, just look @ his name & that’s pretty much all his posts involve.

Suppose that the injuction last more than 10 days and Sony start losing sales. They go in court against LG and won. Can they ask for compasation for lost sales?

If not that is really stupid. They are punishing them before they even hear what they have to say about it.

Whuf. As per usual, the only people hurting Sony are Sony. This all started because they went on a patent trolling spree with LG over mobile patents (and that very much was patent trolling, EDGE games pedigree patent trolling), now LG have no choice really other than to find a way to fight back.

Because Sony is greedy, this has happened. Had Sony just left LG alone then this furore might’ve just blown over. I doubt LG would’ve sued them in that case. But this is Sony, they’re very litigation happy, and the only people Sony seem to be hurting these days is Sony.

If Sony stopped being so aggressive, they’d stop hurting so much as a business, and they’d be much more likable.

It’s business, do you really believe that LG wouldn’t be suing Sony if Sony weren’t suing LG?

Oh dear, Sony. You reap what you sow, eh?