gamesindustry.biz— In a statement issued to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony has denied any responsibility for the closure of Lik-Sang - accusing the on-line retailer of "sour grapes"...
Oct 24, 2006View in Crawl 4
No they won't. Play-Asia already went through their legal woes with the video game company's and as such have abided by the rulings and stayed in business.
What lawsuits of the past? You mean when they were sued for seeling mod-chips? According to Wikipedia:"After these suits, Lik Sang began expanding its area of expertise by reinventing itself (under a new owner) as a vendor of legitimate, but obscure, accessories, such as consumer electronics, games, merchandise, and t-shirts. Currently, they do not sell modchips, nor flash cartridges."Why did Sony do the right thing? Why is the right thing to prevent people from one part of the world to buy something from another part of the world?Sony messed up. Just like they did with their spyware CDs. There was no reason to sue Lik-Sang for doing a great service to people across the world.
this does not hurt sales to the EU.. it just 'stops' early adopters from getting the product before the EU actually gets the product.since we are not in the EU.. who knows what 'really' happens when early adopters get say the PSP early; do they resell it for profit? or keep it?
The legal system is not set in stone. If the law is broken then we generally fix it. The law in this case is broken.Also, there are no simliarities between making a mix tape and putting a few games together in one torrent. One is for a friend to introduce them to new music, and the other consists of two or more complete products which everyone in the world can download.
too many sheep, matepeople buy sony bravia televisions at a massive premium, even tho it's fairly common knowledge that they have samsung panels in them. They will buy blue-ray because of a percieved level of build quality in spite of the bad reports and they will buy a ps3 at full price in spite of the fact that it won't begin to come into it's own for at least 2 years.
Big s**t So one big company gets a smaller company closed down, what's news about this. Sure there were some cool hard to find items at Lik-Sang, but Lik-sang didn't play by the rule and now they are gone. Sony has different division to market and sale their products in different regions. Sure the Internet makes it seem like we live in a global economy ....... but the market places around the world are still broken up into regions ....... everybody want their piece of the pie!
No, it wasn't a contract dispute. Company A claimed Company B was violating their trademark by selling Product C before its release date in a different territory, and because the Product C's that Company B was getting weren't certified under that territory's equivalent of the FCC.Though I'm not a lawyer in any jurisdiction, I think it's pretty likely that if Lik-sang could afford to defend themselves or mount an appeal, they would have won. I know my company would have trouble defending itself if someone in, say, Australia decided to sue us. If Sony could sue companies for importing products before their release date, there would have been no need for DVD region encoding and they'd have sued Amazon, ebay et al. long ago. These lawsuits were purely a tool to hit Lik-sang in the wallet through the cost of the legal system, not through any legal remedy.
There's still hope <a class="user" href="http://www.games-asia.com">http://www.games-asia.com</a> is another good alternative!I got some good games from them as well as lik sang.They can’t stop the inevitable!It’s a global world. Information can be shared across boarders. Technology that’s made in the west is heard about instantly in the east and vice versa.This ruling is too draconian and goes against a free flow global world.If people can’t get access to Sony products then they will go else where…I don’t think Sony have won at all.They have just held up progress and revealed a court system not able to embrace the global world (spirit of the times).Sony won’t last with this tight regulative regime; the world is just too fast for it.
glitch23Oct 24, 2006
No they won't. Play-Asia already went through their legal woes with the video game company's and as such have abided by the rulings and stayed in business.
dimeOct 25, 2006
posted above.
lostotakuOct 25, 2006
No one in their right mind is going to buy a PS3 anyway, and now Lik-Sang won't either.
hansamuraiOct 25, 2006
Yes, Sony forced you to buy a "home theater dream system."
howieOct 25, 2006
What lawsuits of the past? You mean when they were sued for seeling mod-chips? According to Wikipedia:"After these suits, Lik Sang began expanding its area of expertise by reinventing itself (under a new owner) as a vendor of legitimate, but obscure, accessories, such as consumer electronics, games, merchandise, and t-shirts. Currently, they do not sell modchips, nor flash cartridges."Why did Sony do the right thing? Why is the right thing to prevent people from one part of the world to buy something from another part of the world?Sony messed up. Just like they did with their spyware CDs. There was no reason to sue Lik-Sang for doing a great service to people across the world.
rdtx2005Oct 25, 2006
this does not hurt sales to the EU.. it just 'stops' early adopters from getting the product before the EU actually gets the product.since we are not in the EU.. who knows what 'really' happens when early adopters get say the PSP early; do they resell it for profit? or keep it?
afrazkhanOct 25, 2006
The legal system is not set in stone. If the law is broken then we generally fix it. The law in this case is broken.Also, there are no simliarities between making a mix tape and putting a few games together in one torrent. One is for a friend to introduce them to new music, and the other consists of two or more complete products which everyone in the world can download.
overbyteOct 25, 2006
too many sheep, matepeople buy sony bravia televisions at a massive premium, even tho it's fairly common knowledge that they have samsung panels in them. They will buy blue-ray because of a percieved level of build quality in spite of the bad reports and they will buy a ps3 at full price in spite of the fact that it won't begin to come into it's own for at least 2 years.
bbadOct 25, 2006
Big s**t So one big company gets a smaller company closed down, what's news about this. Sure there were some cool hard to find items at Lik-Sang, but Lik-sang didn't play by the rule and now they are gone. Sony has different division to market and sale their products in different regions. Sure the Internet makes it seem like we live in a global economy ....... but the market places around the world are still broken up into regions ....... everybody want their piece of the pie!
raindog469Oct 26, 2006
No, it wasn't a contract dispute. Company A claimed Company B was violating their trademark by selling Product C before its release date in a different territory, and because the Product C's that Company B was getting weren't certified under that territory's equivalent of the FCC.Though I'm not a lawyer in any jurisdiction, I think it's pretty likely that if Lik-sang could afford to defend themselves or mount an appeal, they would have won. I know my company would have trouble defending itself if someone in, say, Australia decided to sue us. If Sony could sue companies for importing products before their release date, there would have been no need for DVD region encoding and they'd have sued Amazon, ebay et al. long ago. These lawsuits were purely a tool to hit Lik-sang in the wallet through the cost of the legal system, not through any legal remedy.
daveisonthewayOct 26, 2006
There's still hope <a class="user" href="http://www.games-asia.com">http://www.games-asia.com</a> is another good alternative!I got some good games from them as well as lik sang.They can’t stop the inevitable!It’s a global world. Information can be shared across boarders. Technology that’s made in the west is heard about instantly in the east and vice versa.This ruling is too draconian and goes against a free flow global world.If people can’t get access to Sony products then they will go else where…I don’t think Sony have won at all.They have just held up progress and revealed a court system not able to embrace the global world (spirit of the times).Sony won’t last with this tight regulative regime; the world is just too fast for it.