GeoHot joins Anonymous' boycott of Sony, asks you to come along

[Guest]

My personal boycott is simple. I will put money into resellers pockets. Gamestop is great for 2nd hand games and used hardware. Not a dime goes into Sony's pockets or it's developers.

Online gaming ... Microsoft got it right with Xbox live. As for music. If you look around , there are plenty of torrent sites , you tube sites and the like to listen to music with out putting a dime into Sony's coffers. The same goes for movies and TV. As for consumer electronics ... I hear that LG, Mitsubishi GE and a few other companies make a great flat screen , DVD player, and so on....

So you see. If Sony dropped off the face of the earth. There would be no great loss and you might even save a few bucks.

 

[example1013]

At least Sony doesn't club baby seals.

 

[Guest]

SONY has been on my Shite list since the PS3 came out and I'm not really missing anything, they don't make any products that I can't find made by 10 other companies, usually better quality and a better price. SONY is purely mid range consumer product now, hardly worth looking at any more.

I hope this stand does make some waves at least, it may not effect SONY world wide, but it might effect SONY on a local level, US, UK, EU... who knows, but if this did succeed then it would make most large electronics firms sit up, take notice and maybe start to realize that in a shaky world economy they can't afford to have bad press. Look how it hit Toyota.

Good luck guys, can't say I'm with you as I've already been doing the boycott for 4-5 years now.

 

[Richy2k9]

hello ...

humm the comments are back.

i'll add a few stuffs though, yes i agree that a boycott is more of a personal issue! don't worry captaincranky

yet

Since the beginning i've always seen anti-SONY behavior from the states than elsewhere.

The PS3 itself sells more elsewhere than in US, land of the Xbox & where the anti-xbox are mostly PC gamers. In France, Nintendo leads followed by SONY. In UK not very different.

In fact SONY gives more to Europeans on the PS3 (earlier) than to US ...

boycotting is acceptable when you have a personal issue or a company really did bad, like paying for a dictator (well you can still decide to support), child labor & abuse, human rights abuse, really bad product. as far as i know it is not the case with the big corporates.

some things i can't understand are the segregation, why can't i be a SONY, NINTENDO & MS supporter at the same time !? .. why can't i be a PC & console gamer, why can't I have a SONY PS3, another branded or generic HDTV, some other sound system ... to have the best is to have the best of each field & sticking to 1 brand isn't really a good idea.

you want to boycott, fine! but please do so with real reasons not just because of some dudes didn't respect the TOS & was nearly sanctioned for, don't do it for just 1 indirect or illogical bad experience or just because of peer pressure.

anyway, i'd rather have less people using a product where they can interact with me while not having same attitude as me for the protection of people's hard work or my private data, than to have people not happy with it.

i'm happy i can see why some corporates do fight to protect their money like anyone would do & same time protect my entertainment & will stick to a product only when i want something out of it, i don't expect the moon all the time...

whatever your decisions, we have to agree & respect, GeoHot isn't a good example to follow ...so follow your own path

cheers!