Dunno about $100 and obviously it's never gonna happen that they pay anyone back because Sony's all about the legal loopholes these days, but yeah basically they sold you a computer with limited usage freedom, and with a single forced FW upgrade you ended up with a locked-down console, now just out of curiosity does MS have that power in it's Windows EULA? Obviously they not stupid enough to do something like that but just makes you wonder how much control you have over software on your own devices.
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