LG wants Playstation 3 banned in US

Saucycarpdog

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-08-lg-wants-playstation-3-banned-in-the-us

Didn't motorola try this with the Xbox 360?
 

mb16

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wait who made blue-ray first? and why are they bringing this up now not when the PS3 was made
 

TheComedown

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mb16 said:
wait who made blue-ray first? and why are they bringing this up now not when the PS3 was made
Did you read the article? It's coming up now because LG is butthurt about some lawsuits from Sony over phones a while ago.
 

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mb16 said:
wait who made blue-ray first? and why are they bringing this up now not when the PS3 was made
that's a good question, it's a little hard to claim intellectual property when the technology is more than four years old.
 

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Lol, ifany of that was true, LG would have filed this suit a couple of weeks after the PS3 was released, not 5 years later.

I'm calling bullshit on the whole thing.
 

Sn1P3r M98

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Well, I've already got a PS3 and Bravia TV, so... Heh.

Still, I highly doubt LG will win. They're big, but Sony's bigger.
 

Solo-Wing

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They just want Sony gone because the PS3 is a cheap Blu-Ray player that can play games. Hard to compete against that, "So lets just get rid of the competition! HERP DERP!"
Life is not Good at LG.
 

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I wonder at the reasoning behind this, even if it is all about revenge. In the end, LG probably won't get enough out of Sony to really recoup the losses due to court/lawyer fees, and both companies will be worse off publicly.
 

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Which company is bigger? LG won't just go bankrupt over legal fees and neither will Sony but both will lose a ton of cash and a lot of rep.

It's just Blu-Ray. Hell, actually, I think Blu-ray should enter the public domain. It won the format war, it's basically standard, fair use for all damnit. Copyright law is retarded after a year.

The patents are overly vague and worthless, too.

They shold be suing dell too. and every other computer company that puts blu ray in their computers.
 

Eri

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You're late on this thread. I already posted this. And after I posted this, the escapist news team posted this.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.263394-LG-wants-to-ban-PS3s-from-being-sold-in-United-States#9964253
 

Cid Silverwing

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twistedheat15 said:
That's some hard core corporate butt hurt right there.
And let's not forget that no one raised a fuss when the PS2 was advertised as doubling for a DVD player.

Oh the hypocrisy.
 

Altorin

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even if they have a case, it won't ban PS3's, it'll just force Sony to pay them.