Dutch Court Lifts PlayStation 3 Seizure Order

[LyonHrt]

Slashdot writes: The recent European import ban against the PlayStation 3 has been lifted. Reportedly, LG had already succeeded in seizing about 300,000 PlayStations, but a court in the Dutch city of The Hague overturned the prejudgment seizure order and told LG to return all PS3s to Sony. Sony uses the Netherlands as its main entry point for all European PlayStation sales, and can now return to normal. While the temporary ban has been lifted, LG can still assert its Blu-ray patents against Sony in a regular proceeding, which will go to trial on November 18. LG asks for patent royalties of $2.50 per Blu-ray device and believes Sony already owes it $150-180 million

[Fonixx]

Bit of a shame really, a good stock shortage would have got the general gaming public involved and Sony might start to learn a lesson then, but all these legal battles Sony are either winning on technicalities or using bully boy tactics to scare anyone they don't like. It might just be annoying now but imagine all the legal precedents they gonna try to set that will just f#ck us gamers over.