Sony denies Responsibility for closure of Lik Sang

[SnesR0X]

This simply means, buy all your PSP used, and all your games used, then at least they won't get getting any money from ya anymore. We don't need Sony anymore, let's just agree to never purchase things from them again...

I got mine off ebay

honestly, i like what developers put out for sony in the games department, but i do not care for sony itself at all, so, i want the ps3/psp to be really great and have good games, but at the same time, i really want the ps3 to fail plus then it would be easier to afford...

[Vega]

Well, its time to strike back. Its time for AC to step up.

[steve-b]

I'm struggling to understand exactly how lik-sang infringed IP law. Can someone explain the grounds that sony used to bring them to court?

[Vega]

Basically -
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), very broadly, are rights granted to creators and owners of works that are results of human intellectual creativity. These works can be in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic domain. It can be in the form of an invention, a manuscript, a suite of software, or a business name.

In general, the objective of IPR is to protect the right of copyright authors in their (Sony) work and at the same time allow the general public to access their creativity. IPR maintains this balance by putting in place time-limits on the author’s means of controlling a particular work. The law that regulates the creation, use and control of the protected work is popularly known as Intellectual Property Law (IP).

I know this doesnt explain how Sony brought the case... but gives you an understanding of what they were getting at

[quzar]

That I can tell, Sony is right. They did not force lik-sang out of business. They sued them, in part because they used the sony logo without permission, and lik-sang ignored the lawsuit.

Sony hasn't seen a cent of lik-sang's money, and more than likely never will. The ruling of the high court of london (as far as I know) has no legal standing in hong kong, and sony probably has no way to force lik-sang to pay.

There is something extremely fishy about the whole thing. I imagine the company may change names/owners but remain basically the same thing and re-open at some point, all the while having basically punished Sony for attacking them by feeding flames of hatred for them.

[steve-b]

So, they shut them down for illegal use of a trademark sorta thing? nothing to do with the import/export side of things? Hmm, this gets more strange by the minute

[Darksaviour69]

so surely that set a presadent that all games/ consoles can not be imported into the UK without premission from the makers!

I think lik-sang were thinking, that there whole bussiness is based on this. Who knows how much bussiness the UK made up for lik-sang?

edit:http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/ne...iness-1025129/

dont know if this is true but:

Sony stooped to new lows by filing the same lawsuit in every single EU country, basically drowning Lik-Sang in paperwork and lawyers fees. Sony wins because Lik-Sang can’t afford to defend themselves. The end result is that Sony didn’t just say, “Hey, stop selling our stuff, if you don’t mind.” They proceeded to nothing less than thuggery by beating the company while they were down.

and on my travels i found this
http://forgetsony.tk/

[Vega]

and on my travels i found this
http://forgetsony.tk/

nice find.
just checked out the links on that site... and it seems everyone is just as pissed off as everyone else

[Panini]

I'll take sonys word for it.

they are the loosers in this and the
ones that broke the law.

LONG LIVE SONY
still haveing a great day .

Do you work for sony or something?

[Vega]

I wouldnt worry about it. MUD has been trolling this story since yesterday.
If he is such the sony asslicker that he is making out he his, he should update his PSP to 2.8 and find a new forum.