LG attempting to stop the sale of PS3 in U.S.

[ranhammerR34]

I have my LG television only for my Sony PS3. Oh, the ironing.

👍 Famine, I actually have one too.

 

[a100miles2go]

European customs ordered to seize PlayStation shipments in legal dispute

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/28/playstation-3-lg-legal-dispute

I wonder if the same thing will happen in US with the LG vs. SCEA court case.

 

[Lain]

Now I'm not sure if LG has a valid claim, but it's nice to see Sony getting bullied for a change.

 

[E28]

I'll attack LG using my sharks with giant 'laser' beams on their heads!
Also since when did this involve Europe? One of my friends is planning on getting a PS3 soon, so good luck to him...

 

[sanmusa]

These top Korean and Japanese electronics companies are always performing all kinds of industrial espionage on each other. Years ago there was another lawsuit where a Japanese company was found guilty of stealing technology from the Koreans, they had to pay some royalties and all was settled. I don't think they'll stop selling PS3s. They will eitehr settle out of court, or if Sony is found to have stolen LG's tech then they might pay some royalties. Deja vu.

Industrial espionage is more common than country vs country espionage, so that doesn't surprise me.

 

[Blitz24]

This won't go very far. LG knows what possible backlash can be caused by doing something like this.

 

[nsnsmj]

The funny thing is, to me at least, is that LG is just now suing Sony for this (Blu-ray patents in PS3). PS3 has been out for like 4-5 years already. If Sony were really infringing, wouldn't this have happened a lot sooner? I think they're only doing this because Sony sued them--though for completely different reasons (mobile phone patents). Hell, Sony was the one pushing Blu-ray as a format the hardest, and apparently both Sony AND LG are members of the Blu-ray Disc Association, so I find all this a little weird.

 

[TT3AZ]

I dont use LG thing and i will never do that, I dont like sony either. Only reason I use Sony is because ps3 arent made by someone else. If they cant export ps3 to US and europe, then invent the ps4, because the ps3 are far to weak according to me.

Asian corporations spying on other is verry common, even in sweden we have had some chinese people spying on companies and on chinese people living in sweden.

It would be funny if other manufactures would copy the ps3 technology, and release a console with another name, and much cheaper. It cant be that hard getting hands on the components that are used in the ps3, and use reverse engineering to get the software, firmware etc.

 

[TB]

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