Sony Sued Again

["andy"]

I don't prefer one to the ther but you can't outright state one is better just because it's larger.

you can state the films on it are better though


IMO

doesnt bother me anyway im not the sort of person who buys loads of films , im the sort who thinks why not just rent them when i want to watch them


good point from someone on the forum linked too on that newsite lol

the simplest feature on things are patented so much to the point where it doesn't make sense. A protective layer on your discs in patented? Really now. The immersion lawsuit I could understand, but protecting your disc surface? Oh please. A small startup company advertising their patent, yes, go for it, but a small startup company lying in wait for a company to "infringe" on their unused patent I don't agree with.

 

[Bonjour]

Surely they wouldn't be just taking Sony to court but rather the whole of the Blu-ray Disc Association, which includes:-

Board of Directors
Apple, Inc.
Dell
HP
Hitachi
LG
Mitsubishi Electric
Panasonic
Pioneer
Philips
Samsung
Sharp
Sony
Sun Microsystems
TDK
Thomson
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney
Warner Bros.

I wouldn't want to fight that lot in court I can tell ya!

It sounds like it's only Sony that's used the tech without permission, though.

 

[SS-89]

If you read the article it says that Sony use silver instead of gold.

Gold is obviously the better material otherwise the other company would have used silver because its cheaper.

Therefore Sony must have conducted further research into the technology to make silver a viable material choice.

I'd personally say that the case is pretty weak against them.

What does the patent say: You cant use any metal or metal ally as a protection against corrosion on an optical medium. Thats pretty broad if you ask me.

Youve misread it, the article states target created a the technology using silver instead of gold, thus if sony implemented the technology knowing full well of the patent, they will have to pay damages etc etc...

 

[Joebob]

It sounds like it's only Sony that's used the tech without permission, though.

Well how the hell would that work? The Blu-ray Disc Association created and has the rights to Blu-ray - so why would they just sue Sony? It's more likely that the media is reporting it just as Sony to continue the anti-Sony vibe which has been on the internet over the past few months or so!

 

[Bonjour]

Well how the hell would that work? The Blu-ray Disc Association created and has the rights to Blu-ray - so why would they just sue Sony? It's more likely that the media is reporting it just as Sony to continue the anti-Sony vibe which has been on the internet over the past few months or so!

Whoah whoah whoah. Easy fella.

Straight from the article:

"The suit, which names Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Pictures, and Sony DADC.."

Doesn't seem that this 'Blu-ray Disc Association' of which you speak is involved at all.

But sure, claim it's the media trying to turn people against Sony. If it makes you sleep better..

 

[Nzyme]

Well how the hell would that work? The Blu-ray Disc Association created and has the rights to Blu-ray - so why would they just sue Sony? It's more likely that the media is reporting it just as Sony to continue the anti-Sony vibe which has been on the internet over the past few months or so!

the company are not suing against blu ray or anything like that, they are sueing against a corrosion protection layer which sony have obviously used in there disks, this layer is present in most optical mediums but varies completly from disk to disk.

the simplest feature on things are patented so much to the point where it doesn't make sense. A protective layer on your discs in patented? Really now. The immersion lawsuit I could understand, but protecting your disc surface? Oh please. A small startup company advertising their patent, yes, go for it, but a small startup company lying in wait for a company to "infringe" on their unused patent I don't agree with.

If you couldn't patent thing like that then the world be run by maybe a dozen alrge companies there would be no compeition, there would be no incentive to ever create something new, or improve on something who ever wrote that is obviously a complete idiot cause no company would create a technology/design/process or whatever and then not license it out or not use it in someway themselves to gain a competitive advantage.

Sony jsut need to invest in some better IP lawyers and researchers thats probably the only problem here

 

[Joebob]

Whoah whoah whoah. Easy fella.

Straight from the article:

"The suit, which names Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Pictures, and Sony DADC.."

Doesn't seem that this 'Blu-ray Disc Association' of which you speak is involved at all.

But sure, claim it's the media trying to turn people against Sony. If it makes you sleep better..

Sorry, didn't mean it to sound like I was having a pop. It was more my confused mind not being able to grasp the concept - I got it now though, so it's not Blu-ray which they are suing over it's the copy protection which Sony have put into their particular BD's?

 

[Nzyme]

Sorry, didn't mean it to sound like I was having a pop. It was more my confused mind not being able to grasp the concept - I got it now though, so it's not Blu-ray which they are suing over it's the copy protection which Sony have put into their particular BD's?

well i think its the anti-corrosion layer which stops the optical medium from reacting and corrupting any data on it

 

[Joebob]

well i think its the anti-corrosion layer which stops the optical medium from reacting and corrupting any data on it

That's what I meant - I'm just tired and tetchy I guess!