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"As of 4/11/11, I am joining the Sony boycott," GeoHot said in a statement. "I will never purchase another Sony product. I encourage you to do the same. And if you bought something Sony recently, return it. Why would you not boycott a company who feels this way about you? There is much more to come on this blog."
The words "this way" are a link to a rant by George Ouzounian, also known as Maddox, titled "I'm tired of Sony's bullshit" on his satirical website The Best Page in the Universe. It appears that when it comes to Sony, GeoHot believes Maddox says it best.
Last week, the hacker group Anonymous launched Operation Sony, which included a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its various online properties. In the settlement today, it was explicitly stated that GeoHot had nothing to do with the attacks on Sony's internet services and websites. Nevertheless, GeoHot is apparently very interested in the offline plan Anonymous has for Sony.
Most Anonymous are online-only attacks, but Operation Sony also features a protest on April 16, 2011 where gamers from all around the world gather at their local Sony stores to complain in person. The lawsuit may be over, but as GeoHot puts it beating them in court is just a start" (though as we already said, he didn't win, he settled).
Protesting the lawsuit won't achieve much, since it is pretty much over, but many still want Sony to allow its customers to do anything they want with the products they buy from the company. Will you be protesting this weekend?
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At least Sony doesn't club baby seals.
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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.
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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 :P
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!
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