GAMING NEWSNew Law Could Prevent Sony Class Action LawsuitPosted on Thursday, April 28 @ 11:45:38 Eastern by Blake_Morse
An article published in the Chicago Tribune stated that the ruling stems from a California law suit involving AT&T and a $30 fee they were charging customers for mobile use:
So basically, this ruling could change the laws so that instead of a group of people all filing for a small amount of a large lump sum each person would have to file individually for a much smaller claim making the likelihood of a claim actually being filed slim. Because let's face it, how many people are going to go through the hassle of filing a complaint, then dealing with hours of arbitration and legal documents? Probably not a lot, at least the ones with anything going on in their lives. Personally this pisses me off as it seems to put the welfare of big businesses above the rights of the consumer and that just doesn't sit right with me. It's a said state of affairs when U.S laws protect big companies more than their citizens well being. How this will effect this particular suit against is yet to be seen, but with both it and the AT&T suit stemming from California I wouldn't get my hopes up of Sony actually paying for their fuck up. [Source] More from the Game Revolution Network Comments
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DaVillain
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sara_gunn
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That being said, it doesn't necessarily mean that Sony won't suffer. See, if I was Anonymous (I'm totally not), I would use all of this information I had just obtained to steal millions of identities. Yeah, that's pretty shitty for all of Sony's customers, but I like to think they would be sacrificing for the greater good. If consumers start to suffer personally for Sony's utter lack of liability, they'll leave. They'll take their business elsewhere. They'll come join all us cool kids on XBox Live. And then Sony will have nothing. They can have all the sketchy business practices in the world but if people won't ACTUALLY give them their money, they won't have jack. Then we can all go back to selling our bodies and souls to Steve Jobs like we're supposed to.
Klandathu
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There are some shady business and legal practices at work here, but further victimizing the victims is no way to fix things. Two wrongs don't make a right.
sara_gunn
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Klandathu
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sara_gunn
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Wow. I don't think I've ever seen anyone apologize on the internet before. Usually it takes all of ten posts before we've reduced ourselves to children on a playground (NO UR A FAG LOLZ!!!!1!). It's no problem. I actually love to argue, so we could have gone on all day if you wanted to. Cheers!
Klandathu
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Ranim
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sara_gunn
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Also, the suit has been filed, and here it is, if anyone cares to read it (below the article):
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