Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Examiner: "In a grand dose of irony today, Sony was sued over a term in the PlayStation Network's End User Agreement that states that users cannot sue Sony. These terms were added in September, after a long string of Sony hacks (the official count is that Sony got broken into 17 times in a space of about 2 months), which included a massive outage of the PlayStation Network itself. The suit that was filed today is a class action suit for all of those who bought a PS3 and signed up for the PSN before the September update to the EULA. The suit also claims that this is a unfair Business practice on Sony's part, and requires users to forgo their rights in order to use the device that they purchased."

Re:Consumer Law

[mattack2]

Australia it is illegal to infer in a contract that a consumers "legislated" rights have been waved

Good bye, rights. [hand waving] Byebye.

Re:EULAs

[arth1]

Sony used Audio CDs to install rootkits on hundreds of thousands of computers.

Show me what Nintendo did that was more evil than that.

Easy. "But our princess is in another castle!"

FFFfffffffuuuuuu.....

GameStation EULA collects 7,500 souls

[oaksey]

I liked what GameStation did last year :)

GameStation EULA collects 7,500 souls from unsuspecting customers
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/gamestation-eula-collects-7500-souls-from-unsuspecting-customers-20100416 [geek.com]