Sony sued for removing "Other OS" feature on PS3s

[Scotty]

http://www.techspot.com/news/38782-sony-sued-for-removing-other-os-feature-on-ps3s.html

[bubba]

I'm sure Sony had something in their user agreement that allows them to remove any feature they wish or something. In the U.S. the lawsuit would not make it, but in Europe the person could possibly get some compensation of sorts.

But either way we can blame geohot for being a !@#$ing dumbass and telling Sony.
Honestly, we traded off a legit way to play emulators and roms for soon-to-be custom firmware where people are just going to steal the games.

[ARTgames]

I don't know how many people this effected but i wish they did not make you take it out if you wanted to go online/get updates. I heard of a lot of cool things people have done with clusters of ps3 running Linux doing cool stuff.

I think they should have kept it in and i think its fine the get sued. But i really wish i know why exactly they did it.

[NotSoCheerios]

Completely unneeded on both ends.
Dude shouldn't of sued, and Sony should of instead of removing that feature, figured out something to prevent people from playing stolen ps3 games on it.

[bubba]

Completely unneeded on both ends.
Dude shouldn't of sued, and Sony should of instead of removing that feature, figured out something to prevent people from playing stolen ps3 games on it.

How do we know they aren't figuring out a way? Removing it before they could crack it to fix the issue would seem like a better idea than to allow them to have it then fix it AFTER they crack it...why?
The cracking is STILL possible, this would sort of be like the 1.50 PSP Update, the 1.50 was a breaking point in the PSP firmware as it allowed modders to run custom firmware, the way you can crack a psp is using a pandora battery to REVERT to that software and then apply the patch, then refreshing the software to the newest modded firmware version.
This is going to be most certainly re-applied to the PS3 version that HAD the OS.
So pretty much Sony is still !@#$ed.