Sony Forming Anti-Piracy Legal Superteam

[Silver Patriot]

Ok, I'm not as phased about this as some others are. I can understand that they want to protect their property, it is their property after all. That said, they are taking this a bit far. I mean, a legal team specifically for piracy issues..? A little bit ridiculous, if you ask me. Then again, the reporters are hyping this a little bit too much. That is to say, like Microsoft or Nintendo doesn't have something like this already? Microsoft especially.

I don't know about Nintendo but I am sure Microsoft has a amazing legal department that covers more than just piracy. More importantly though it shows to a limited extent how each company plans on dealing with these issues in the future. Sony is building it's team of lawyers while Microsoft seems to be more [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107915-Microsoft-Legit-Kinect-Hacks-Coming-in-April] open to hackers [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107076-Jailbreaker-Decides-to-Move-to-Windows-Phone-7-Microsoft-Delighted]. ( to a [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107111-Xbox-Update-Confounds-Console-Pirates] extent [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106259-Microsoft-Ready-to-Crush-Kinect-Porn-Game])

Dethkloks Secret Police Force [http://video.adultswim.com/metalocalypse/dethkloks-secret-police-force.html] Also am I the only one who saw this as I was reading the article? Good luck pulling that off Sony.

 

[Jumplion]

Do I have to repeat myself again and again and again and again?

[HEADING=1]Nobody. Fucking. Wins.[/HEADING]

I'm sounding like a broken record here, seriously. I refuse to take any specific side on this issue because, again, nobody will win in the end. The hackers will still hack, the pirates will still pirate, the Sonys will still Sony, and the consumer gets screwed one way or another through restrictive DRM, constant firmware updates, and jerkwad entitled brats, AKA pirates, causing all of this.

I understand Sony's concern here, they want to protect their business and their consumers.
I understand the hacker's concern, then want to use their hard/software the way they want to.

I don't understand the pirate's concern, as if it weren't for them we wouldn't be in this fucking mess.

Screw Sony, screw GeoHotz, screw pirates, and by god screw the consumers because lord knows we haven't been screwed enough!

 

[theultimateend]

Man, Sony's ass is bleeding hard. Still under the impression that every pirated copy equals a lost sale?

They could kill every pirate that ever lives and their sales wouldn't budge. But reality is a *****.

My point, kneejerk, was there IS money being lost and companies (this is the insane part) want to make maximum profits for their products so they endeavour to STOP people who might even tangentially reduce their profits.

I'm not a pirate myself but I would like it if 100% of the evidence against it wasn't anecdotal.

There is basically nothing to support the idea that piracy results in lost money. It feels like it does, but reality doesn't care how things feel.

Nobody is even sure if piracy doesn't result in slightly higher than average sales, there is such a thing as a counterintuitive result.

Either way it probably won't matter to me much. The only thing I can promise you is that without any doubts this will cost Sony more than they ever may have or ever will lose from piracy. Not from a moral perspective, I mean literally from a funding one.

Lawyers aren't cheap.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Sony, the Knight Errant, now turned Death Knight.

Am I right, fellas?