Sony Sues Fake Memory Stick Makers and Sellers

[wraggster]

News from I4U (http://www.i4u.com/article6082.html)

The problem of fake memory sticks has been already around for a while. Now Sony started to act and is suing several companies in Japan for selling fake memory sticks online.

Fake memory sticks are also offered on eBay in the United States. So beware, when purchasing low priced sticks. The differences are hard to tell. There are not only fake Sony branded sticks, but also fake Sandisk memory sticks out there.

The fake Memory Sticks are mostly made in China and Taiwan. The pirated copies are usually priced half.

[thesandman]

Do they work? cuz i bought a 2 gig for like 30 dollers when they first came out from china and it works fine.

[stotheamuel]

hmm wow sony is finally the sue-er and not the sue-ie

[xsimmonsx]

I bought a 1gb Sony pro duo from ebay back in April I think it was, I got it by sniper for about £20 inc P&P.

The packing had holograms etc on it so I though nothing of it.

2 days later I stick it in my card reader & it melts the end of it. At the time I was working for GAME, and we had them in stock for like £100 still, but even though the end looks like a boxers ear it still works fine!!!!

So im all in favour of the fakes, as I think the offical ones prices take the piss.

Saying that I just bough a 2gb sandisk one from PLAY, but that was only £60

[SSaxdude]

I have a fake Sony 2 gb, it works great. I think if the prices in stores weren't so ridiculus, people wouldn't buy the fake ones.

[ShelbyGT500]

I got a 2gb one off of ebay for 60 US dollars, and you know what? It has abit more capacity then the real one(I've tested it by filling up the entire card to 0mb free space) and every file works without corruption. I'll be damned to buy a 200 dollar(back then :P ) 'real' one

[Man]

How do you tell if the memory sticks are fake ?

[penileartery]

oh crap, are u serious..lol i just bought a 2 gb on ebay like a week ago. still waiting for it to come herebecause i ordered it from hong kong..and i live in oklahoma but it cost me $60 US..lol hope its real.lol

[ShelbyGT500]

How do you tell if the memory sticks are fake ?

http://pspupdates.qj.net/Real-V-S-Fake-Inside-The-Memory-Sticks/pg/49/aid/18198


oh crap, are u serious..lol i just bought a 2 gb on ebay like a week ago. still waiting for it to come herebecause i ordered it from hong kong..and i live in oklahoma but it cost me $60 US..lol hope its real.lol

Its fake, trust me, especially since its from the piracy capital of the world :P I got mine from New York so even its location is not enough to guarentee an official MS

[tophead420]

this is why i dont use ebay becuz i dont want fake a** shiz and id rather have the real deal holyfield not sum fake that would break the fake are made really cheap and anyone who supports these needs to stop becuz its really no differnt then having an {i dare not say this word for i want to keep my membership on this site} and in buying these you are supporting piracy tho some dont kno they have fake and didnt kno they were buying a fake so id never buy one from ebay id rather go to an actual store so i can look at what im buying right off the rack tho spending a lil more money but thats the price im willing to pay to make sure my mem stisk is real

[acn010]

you can identify if its fake by looking at the back of the stick, serial code lazer engraved can be seen, if there is, it real, if not, of course, its fake, and wont last.
so if you have a fake, make sure to take extreme care to the stick because it will burn itself and not work anymore.
thats all thgat i know,
and mine is real :D but my is 1GB and costed me $112.00 usd when it came out, now its like $49.99 usd.
sucks big time >:P

[Uruz 6]

Must agree with you on that one tophead420:
When purchasing something like a memory stick (or a psp at that) I prefer doing it myself, looking at the thing and checking if everything is in order; on-line deals are useful but I wouldn't risck my money (and we all know how these things are expensive) on something that might malfunction/cause damage/not even arrive.

[NJisMYhome]

Wewefsdfsdf

[mr_nick666]

you can identify if its fake by looking at the back of the stick, serial code lazer engraved can be seen, if there is, it real, if not, of course, its fake, and wont last.
so if you have a fake, make sure to take extreme care to the stick because it will burn itself and not work anymore.
thats all thgat i know,
and mine is real :D but my is 1GB and costed me $112.00 usd when it came out, now its like $49.99 usd.
sucks big time >:P

Just whipped mine out in a panic but its all good! :o
Got my $ONY 2gb off ebay for £38 delivered too :D

[tophead420]

Must agree with you on that one tophead420:
When purchasing something like a memory stick (or a psp at that) I prefer doing it myself, looking at the thing and checking if everything is in order; on-line deals are useful but I wouldn't risck my money (and we all know how these things are expensive) on something that might malfunction/cause damage/not even arrive.

yeah its totally not worth risking your money on these just to save a few bucks in the long run its worth spending the extra money to insure the product you purchased is going to last a long time and thanks for agreeing with me :D

[Video_freak]

i bought my 1gb for about $30 and it seems real (i bought it in like February)

[DJDunk]

I bought a £31.99 2Gb card from eBay recently and the card failed with CRC errors after about 750Mb of data being loaded. Devhook would not load from it either.

It was certainly a fake, had the tell tale signs such as pictures on the packaging in the wrong order, no sony warantee paper inside the package etc. Don't be fooled by just looking at the laser etching, this one has that, but IS fake. The bloke still has 99.99% positive feedback with plenty of sales so looks like most must be okay. Guess mine was from a dodgy batch.

I've since bought a genuine card for about £60 and when you put the packages/contents side by side you can tell the difference.

[Murdock]

Fale or not?`geee .... who cares?!

The "myth" that a fake memory stick tends to "break suddenly at one day" without u haveing anything done wrong is just stupid bullshit. It might be true that u can't write/format a fake MemStick as often as u can a real one, that is correct, but his ain't nothing to do with this myth of suddenly no more working or even burning or whatever ...

Actually I bought my first Memstick (a 1 GB Stick) at the German Media Markt (europeans might have heared that Comapny once in a while) and my sec. one (2 GB) via e-bay. Since the forst one is real and the sec. fake (I checked that) YOU'd tell me that the first one should "live" longer ... WRONG! I already have errors (can'T tell u which ones, way too complicated! BUT THE SIK WORKED PERCEFTLY WHEN I GOT IT!) when I copy files to the 1 GB sandisk one ... the 2 GB cheap-china-fake one worx perfectly. And actually I copy & delete A LOT more on the 2 GB fake one ...
This is just to show u that ur theory of the cheap ones being the ones of less quality is pure bullshit!

Anyway: This 1 GB cost 99 € ... only 3 months later, the 2 GB at ebay cost all in all 66 € (!!!!!)
So your sec. theory of not wasting the money to get a fake one is bullshit either, just because of the fact that REAL 2 GB Stick costs 150+ (at least it did when I checked last time which was round 4 weeks ago) and the fake one costs only ~55 euro ... THIS IS 33% of the original price!!!! God damnit. If $ony would not sell their ****in bullshit stuff for a price which is double the price their stuff is worth, then they needn't worry about plagiarism ... As always my favourite sentence at last: $ony U SUCK!

Gr33tz