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So we are supposed to boycott a company that sells cutting-edge technology? I think not. Our own US Government is in the same thing with Wikileaks, what are you going to boycott the USG also?
@Jim:
“are you going to boycott the USG also?”
Sure? 😛
Seriously, though, I don’t consider myself to be boycotting Sony on principle – I just don’t trust them. Why would I buy something from a company that makes it clear that I don’t truly own my purchases? (read the legal documents that were published – apart from claims related to distribution of information, they make no secret that they consider a user tinkering with his own device to be “illegal tampering” with “their” property.)
So we are supposed to boycott a company that sells cutting-edge technology? I think not. Our own US Government is in the same thing with Wikileaks, what are you going to boycott the USG also?
@Jim:
“are you going to boycott the USG also?”
Sure? 😛
Seriously, though, I don’t consider myself to be boycotting Sony on principle – I just don’t trust them. Why would I buy something from a company that makes it clear that I don’t truly own my purchases? (read the legal documents that were published – apart from claims related to distribution of information, they make no secret that they consider a user tinkering with his own device to be “illegal tampering” with “their” property.)
As the people of Make says:
"If you can’t open it, you don’t own it"
I won’t buy something that i can’t open 🙂