Speculation on Lik-Sang's Closure

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From Lik-Sangs News Archive -
http://www.yesasia.com/?/news.php?artc=2707

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft vs. Lik Sang
Tue Oct 15 2002 14:57:22 Hong Kong Time - Corporate Info

On September 16th a lawsuit against Lik Sang International Limited and it's directors was filed in the High Court of Hong Kong by the companies Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft alleging infringment of copyrighted material by the selling of Mod Chips or other development and backup devices for the Plaintiffs consoles.

On September 17th, the High Court of Hong Kong issued Orders and Injunctions against Lik Sang which prevented selling or advertising Mod Chips (and other similar products in question). The details outlined in those Injunctions basically took Lik-Sang.com, the company and more than 20 full-time employees "down" - business was officially closed till today. Lik Sang and it's employees couldn't even speak about the case due to an injunction of the High Court.

Lik Sang International Limited has removed all the products in question from it's website and started it's business operation again this Tuesday, October 15th. Un-shipped orders will be processed in due course and the first shipments are scheduled to be dispatched by November 1st. Customers with unshipped orders will receive emails with shipping & or cancellation information. In the meantime, new orders are welcome.

Please note that Lik Sang International Limited has always sold the products in questions with the legitimate uses in mind. The products haven't been considered by us as illegal. All the Court Orders were issued before hearing a single word from the company. However, Lik Sang is now not in a position to sell the questioned products in the immediate future.


Note: We are receiving hundreds of comments regarding this news article from readers around the world. Though those comments below do not necessarily have to reflect our opinion, we don't welcome violent posts against the plaintiffs, they will be deleted from us. Please don't forget that at the end of the day Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft (and Sega, sniff) are the ones who let us all share the same hobby we have: playing video games.

So, this shows Lik-Sang have already had their fair share of trouble with the big companies but carried on trading.

Now, this would idea would fit:

Sony - "We want our court fees"

Lik-Sang - "Sorry, we're out of business now, we can't pay"

A few months later, a new online business offering Sony hardware pops up again, suspiciously like Lik-Sang.

Thoughts?

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That was exactly what I said on another forum. Basically the whole thing is fishy, because lik-sang didn't have to do anything, as far as i know the high court in london has no ability to force claims made to entities in china.