- Sony is dismissing news reports that it’s asking online stores for customer information to track shipments of the company’s PlayStation Portable game console in the United Kingdom.
Published reports out of Britain suggest that Sony is using the knowledge to confiscate any unauthorized product being shipped to consumers before the official launch date of Sept. 1.
Sony’s president of consumer sales, Stan Glasgow, told CNET News.com that rather than targeting customers, the company is going to court on Monday to ask for an injunction against companies that participate in the underground market for the devices, sometimes referred to as the „gray market.”
„We are fully aware of the gray market situation and we are trying to address the problem,” Glasgow said, „but I seriously doubt that Sony would pursue any criminal action against individuals.
It’s just something that we wouldn’t do.”
(na razie – czy nigdy? George PSP Orwell?)
a skoro już…
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.
But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened (…)”
George Orwell
The Prevention of Literature