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hypernova:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 06, 2011, 11:26:17 pm ---
--- Quote ---I'm adopting a boycott Sony mentality.  And I hope anyone who reads about this and does the same, given their past exploits

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Good luck with that. Sony is ---smurfing--- huge. It's astonishing how many companies they have under their wing. They're like Disney, boycotting Disney is like boycotting electricity from PG&E or oil from (then)Exxon, it's impossible. The chances of you unknowingly doing business with a company that Sony has their fingers in is very high.

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Well, I'll at least stay away from branded merchandise.  No big name items like TVs and mp3 players and whatnot.

Now what would really test me is if they re-release FF VII on a Sony exclusive platform.  But I bet I could hold out.

ark_ader:
I don't own a PS3, I like my Xbox 360 too much and I really do not care what Sony does.

I wonder what will happen to Sony for all that Tax money it owes the EU, for shipping the PS3 as a computer?

Sony can sit and spin.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on March 07, 2011, 08:10:39 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 06, 2011, 11:26:17 pm ---
Good luck with that. Sony is ---smurfing--- huge. It's astonishing how many companies they have under their wing. They're like Disney, boycotting Disney is like boycotting electricity from PG&E or oil from (then)Exxon, it's impossible. The chances of you unknowingly doing business with a company that Sony has their fingers in is very high.

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I dunno ... just the threats of boycotting led Disney to go back on their commitment to DIVX. I know that I wrote a letter to Disney during that fiasco and Disney listened (for a variety of reasons, but one was consumer backlash).

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I can't imagine anyone liked DIVX at the time. It's interesting we're willing to put up with similar ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- now though.

Didn't a similar boycott occur with that talk show? Elis something? I don't think anything came out of that.

Then there was similar backlash when some Sony discs installed a rootkit. Quite a bit of backlash on that, but nowadays, most people don't even remember that Sony had anything to do with that. Much less that a rootkit was involved.

I find it supremely interesting Sony's stance on copyrights has taken a complete 180. I guess it's painfully obvious Sony goes where the money is, despite the company contradicting itself over the years.

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