Comments on: EFF deadline for Sony BMG

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:07:58 +0000

Sony will see our responses in lose of sales for their CD and proprietary PS3 with the famous “no resale or trade software” (expensive junk).

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:57:02 +0000

Has anyone bothered to read the complete EULA Sony tried to force on an unsuspecting public? I believe it should be made known far and wide! That EULA insists that the end user agree to allow Sony to download and install on the user’s computer ANY SOFTWARE UPDATES it (Sony) feels like installing. This could include ANYTHING! IT WAS NOT QUALIFIED OR CONDITIONAL. The EULA quite literally required the end user to allow Sony unrestricted access to his P.C.

All of this reeks of criminal intent. We consumers need to start rebelling against those intrusive, coercive EULAs. I believe a court of law (if one could find a judge who, for reasonable consideration, has not already predisposed himself to the entertainment cartel’s highly questionable motivations) would rule such agreements and contracts as unenforceable.

Consider: no private citizen can be barred from shopping or browsing at a mall or shopping center, without first having been served with an injuction for unacceptable behavior or crimes. A person cannot be required to provide personal information prior to being allowed access to the mall or shopping center. Businesses that are open to the public may not selectively deny access for whimsical, arbitrary, or prejudicial reasons. As such, and with ample legal precedent having already been established, challenges to “Terms of Use” or “Terms and Conditions”, etc., in conjunction with “Privacy Policies”, which serve to bar anyone who does not agree to the unrestricted and wholesale distribution of his personal, private information, should be successful and should turn the tables on these blood-sucking parasites.

We are the consumers — we are the ones they WANT to reach, in order to sell their products or services, in order to generate profits. We are the ones who should dictate the terms under which we are willing to patronize their web sites. We most definitely should not allow ourselves to be cowed into submission!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:18:40 +0000

Where would we be without the EFF looking out for us all? I don’t know of any other organization that works for the greater good of the people in respect to technology and privacy.

They are definiatly on my list of donations.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:04:56 +0000

Sony has had plenty of time to do the right thing. Hoping all this would blow over and die down is why your not hearing much from Sony. (Personally, I can’t believe how much crap Sony has pulled over the years.) EFF is making sure that Sony, who apparently has no concept of what is the right thing to do, is informed of it. Since they lack the moral integrity to figure out what to do or how to do it to make it right, EFF is taking the oppurtunity to tell them publicly, so there is no mistake that they know. Shame such a large corporation has to be told, “This is how you do it.”

Setup for possible future litigation? Very possible.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:58:28 +0000

That’s what I think the EFF are planning.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:45:18 +0000

the’re going to laugh in the EFF’s face behind closed doors.

Sony: “Compensate consumers, muhahaha, what are they thinking? We’re trying to squeeze every last dollar out of them, not give it back!”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:47:59 +0000

The chances of this remedy actually being implemented with or without court assistance is practically nil. Of course this remedy is the right thing to do. As for me, all Sony products are off my purchase list.