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Sony has taken legal action against companies and sellers in China and Taiwan that are selling fake memory sticks with the Sony mark on them. eBay sellers have been making a fortune ever since the launch of the PSP through selling fake Memory Stick Pro Duo's through the online auction site for half price, making out that they are genuine Sony/Sandisk memory sticks. In April we wrote an article on the difference between the Real and Fake memory sticks, as well as a report on the quality of memory sticks sold on eBay.
With Sony suing companies, its pretty obvious that most of the memory sticks on eBay will disappear, or will be re-branded with something else. The thing is, most people that buy the fake sticks know they are fake. All the sellers have to do is add another brand on them, and I'm sure they would still sell in the thousands. I know that for the price I bought my fake stick for, I'd still buy it with another label on. Make way for the Sonny Memory Stick Pro Duo!
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id buy a sonny memory stick pro duo
Ok, so Sony is suing companies that are sellign fake memory sticks...Lets see how people can twist it so that Sony is the "EVIL COMPANY" in this case...should be interesting.
finaly those bastards got what they dezerved
oow no, the fake mc are much cheaper!!!
I hate that sony is doing this!!! all they have to do is make the real ones affordable. I think the pirates need to change the name to Sorny.. it would go great with my panaphonics and magnetbox equipment.
this is a great move on Sony's part, they really need the money (with all these lawsuits Sony's lost already). This is a definate win for Sony as the company's are illegally stamping Sony's name on these sticks (so theres no way Sony could lose the lawsuit)
No one has a right to make memory sticks but Sony. Its as simple as that. If you bought another brand or a fake then you are breaking the law and should be sued just like the makers of the memory.
in my opinion, sony is right to sue the fake memory stick sellers. Although id hate to see these cheap sticks to disappear from the market. If they just changed their name that would be perfect.
it would also make distinguishing between the 2 alot easier. so that buyers actually know what they are paying for.
i bought a fake memory stick 2gb off amazon (new and used section, brand new) for £25. I didnt know it was fake (although i had my suspissions), when i found it it was fake, at first i was pissed off, but then again i do have a 1 year warranty with this. so it seems to me like a pritty safe investment :)
I got a 2gb a few weeks ago.. and it turns out to be a fake (from this article's description at least). It works fine so far. The only thing I noticed is that the data transfer is a smudge slower than the 1gb sandisk I had.
I agree with past comments though -- if it is fake, and it works, why worry? I think the official ones are too expensive anyway.
and knew it was fake when ipurchased it, but these companies have no right stamping Sony's name on them, so they deserve whats comming to them. They are getting rich off of sony's name, and thats not right. They no that if they stamped a different name on them (like they're own manufactureres name), barely anyone would buy them, because they are unheard of. BUT THAT DOESNT ALLOW THEM TO PUT SONY'S NAME ON THE STICKS THEY MAKE!
Yea, they need to do Fony, Ill buy one of those.
and you guys forgot Korean sellers.
Anyway, I dont crae, I just got my sandisk ultra II 4GB stick today and enjoying it!
i think sony is totally right,
if its illigle its illigle
just like the illigle immigration thing
its illigle
dont do it
and you wont get in trouble :-D
though i do like piracy
I bought my sandisk 2gb stick for less than they charge for the fake sony ones. cant see why you would want to buy those.
your an idiot..it is perfectly legal to make memory sticks if you want to..what is illegal is using sony name without authorization
All I can say is that they deserve what they are getting for putting "Sony" on em. My car works...and all but its alot fatter persay (thicker) than my other cards and since I got one for my digicam it stays stuck in the slot lol ...
In a few words they deserve it...at least for using the name not for making it...uh...I confused my self lol
About time they sue em Coz I think there F**KED
...at least until you have the facts straight.
It is _not_ legal to make memory sticks unless you are licensed by Sony who owns the format.
So far, only Sandisk and Samsung have the rights to manufacture (and sell) memory stick media.
You can, of course, be an oem for Sony and create Sony-branded memory sticks.
THEY SPELT SONY WRONG! OMG THEY SPELT IT LIEK SONNY WTF LOL!!!!!1
Yep they'll just switch names to Samdisk or Sansung...
all people know when they buy something in taiwan or china it gonna be fake i bought a 2gb ms pro duo fake sony 90$ 3 month ago and i never got any prob like if i was gonna buy a 2gb ms 200$ (2-3month ago they was)but yeah u can broke ur ms easily than a reg but if u use it correctly and remove from psp each day it cant broke
they did it on purpose cause if they change it to sonny than it would be fine to sell
Here in the UK you can get a 2Gb memory stick from scan.co.uk for just over £60 and thats worth it. You get the full capacity, warranty and the decent label. Where as the cheap ones aren't that much cheaper and is just plain dodgy. Works, but not as much memory.
simply because you can pick up a 2gb stick on ebay uk for £25 including postage.
mine have about 1935mb available on them and they have never failed me. What point is there in paying 3 or 4 times that price for a card which offers little more?
thay need somthing since people keep suing them, and it would make them change the name on the fake ones so we don't buy the fake ones by mistake
My father once but a fake sony television , guess what? it was made with stronegr material than the sony one and it was way cheaper , anyways if sony does this I will tell 50 people with psp's about isos ( I had once send an e-mail to sony that if they patched homebrew on 2.7 I was gonna tell 20 psp users in front of a gaming retail about isos and how to get them , guess what? I did it , but I'm gonna send an e-mail to them threatening to tell 50 persons this time , it's easy cause I live near a Babbages and I stand in front of it and in a week of standing there in front for 10 min I will have my goal accomplished! ).
It's about time sony finally did something about these developers. They do not have the right to make sony branded memory sticks.
If they really want to make them they should make their own brand and stop printing sony/magicgate logos on their products.
Wow... Sony sueing someone for a change...instead of the other way around! :)
Well, with all the money that Sony is forced to dish out with all the lawsuits they're getting, at least Sony is getting something back for a change....to possibly pay the bastards who are suing them..haha.
i'll buy a cony memory stick :)
#27: Haha, thats very true!
my fake 2gb stick only cost me $50
il also piss on #7. dumb
you are a loser.
you have no life.
you will die alone.
i'll wait for a 4 gig stick but theyre about 4 times more expensive than a 2 gig stick....so i could have a 4 gigs for 50 pounds if i bought two two gig sticks. i bought a 1 gig stick for 60 pounds less than a year ago. for the same price i could buy maybe 2 2 gig sticks and a pizza. but i cant be bothered taking the memory stick out and swapping so i may as well get 1 4 gig stick rather than 2 2 gig sticks. but if i do buy a 2 gig stick ill my 1 gig stick spare and then i'll have 3 gigs all together...but i stocll wouldnt want to swap them over. if i get two two gig sticks and i still have my 1 gig stick , that will make 5 gigs alltogether but the chsnging of the sticks would be a pain, so i'll just wait for the 4 gig stick to hit like 30 pounds and then ill buy that.
If sony allows homebrew game developers will sue them.
SONY IS ALWAYS GETTING SUE'ED BUT NOW ITS TIME TO STRIKE BACK DIE FAKE MEMORY STICK COMPANY
I fart in your general direction.
#25 & #34 are two of the most ridiculous posts i have ever read. These people need to go and pull their psp's out of their fat spotty asses and get on with their lives.
do u rekon $ony is lashing out because of the psp-homebrew-scene's recent success with the downgrader and custom firmwares.
$ony are sore losers ...lol
Its legal to make a memory stick, but they can't call it a "memory stick pro duo." you need a liscence to do that because it's a brand name that belongs to sony.
cheapest i saw on ebay was 56 for a 2 gig card. id rather sepnd 10 bucks more and buy a real deal sony 2 gig card from newegg.
im not involved in this fake or real sony memory sticks because i have got the best memory stick of them all, the sandisk 2 gb :)
i dont care.
#7 lawyer... yeah.... your a lawyer alright... "noone can make memory stick but sony"? so sandisk ms are illegal? how about "noone can put 'sony' label on their memory stick until the approval of sony"? or even better... noone can make memory stick until they notify the inventor of memory stick? huh?
I've been hearing a lot of cool name for fake memory sticks here.. how about just straight $ony?
hey just a warning #25... sony might do something to you... lol
#25 the more iso user there is... the less likely you will get a game that could be "your dream game" now more people use gta iso... less rockstar gonna make... less they try... who knows.. they might just make a sucky gta next time... go ahead and tell people about isos, and force game maker to raise prize and make suckier game... and even worse... one day eventurally if theres so many like you there will be no games...
#25 dont you think you look like a fool to some people? ok your telling people how to break the law... good people would just walk away and think your such a cheap sore loser...
hey #39... your the sore loser who choose to use stuff thats made by "sore losers", atleast they ARE making money....
I hope sony wins the case... I still want a better psp... if sony keep loosing money, chances of them making a better psp faster just get smaller... hey more piracy just mean that game maker spend LOT of time worrying about piracy and security that they might miss deadline(hey is you who get the game later)... make suckier game because of time AND money issue(hey your the one that plays the game... they can all just switch jobs... they are good programmers anyways)
And YES piracy could get out of hand... don't say "ohhh only a few know about it" well few enough for people to make modchips and make big bucks... few enough for people all around the globe to know about it...
Fake memory stick SUCKS... they prob write slower... no warranty... less storage... more easier to break... hey you loose money not me, what a waste of metal and plastic and time to make them? just because some people like money.
i think its just impossible that sony looses this case, they are using sony's name
Also yeah... i would buy a stick named Sonny knowing it sucks because its cheap.. but shame on them for using Sony's name....
when they change name... it will suddenly turn from "illegal" to "cheap brand'.... wow benefit for them, also a lot of you are right, we buy fake stuff knowing full will they are fake because they well... are cheaper...
Just like the Mountain dew and Mountain Lightning case... and I think Mountain lightning sells more then mountain dew because of its cheap price ...
The fake memory sticks have beenb out for a whial. Whell I will mis cheap memory sticks.
http://i2.tinypic.com/20937ll.jpg
I bought a 1gb msd of ebay for $28 and its real by the discription on here
Other people making memory stick pro duo's is okay, as long as they don't stamp Sony on them.
Unlike you I hate sony and I hope the guys making the fake ms win miracurously , I mean do you know how many good things are being sued , first sue the guys with the fake ms , then sue limewire , then sue everyone , *****ig suers of this world , only sue if it's a case of murder or something life threatening , don't sue for things people like. Yes this ms are illegal but if Bush and the stupid senators USA has pass a law that everyone must use buy copyrighted air by from the government and not breathe the free air , will you? , I mean you all should support what is good for you and not what is good for big companies. BTW to #33 , I have a life and it's not psp , it's playing the drums , playing guitar , and listening to metal , music life 8 hours daily! , psp is when I am at bporing places like the dentist , doctor, ect. and mostly use my psp for watching rammstein , slipknot , emperor , dimmu borgir , kittie , in flames , korn , black sabath , iron maiden , dream theater , one dead three wounded , kittie , pantera and metallica music videos , but I need space for the music videos cause I'm tired of deleting and coping new ones too many times so I'm deciding on buying five 2gb ms at 30 dollars each , I am not buying the ipod video cause it's too expensive , I don't need 40gb I need 9gb only so I guess I would buy five 2gb ms , not four 2gb ms and one 1gb ms cause I may need the spare 1gb in the future.
Um, the fake memory sticks on Ebay won't be dissapearing. I can guarentee you that there will still be plenty of fake "Sony" memory sticks on Ebay.
Regaurdless wether you hate Sony or not, to say you want these people that are STEALING and RIPPING people off to win a court case, then you are a dumb arse.
Sony is doing the right thing here, be mature and relize that, friggin 12 year olds...i swear
those bastards got what was comming to em
The grammar in the comments on this site is becoming unbearable. Your parents pay taxes so you can get a god damn education. USE IT!
It is not illegal to manufacture flash memory that happens to work on the psp. What is illegal is the use of Sony Brand registered trademarks such as MagicGate, Sony & MemoryStick. Trademark law is international and applies in any country that is a part of the United Nations. Sony is simply exercising their right as the holder of said trademark.
Go ahead and boycott Sony for protecting intellectual property that belongs to them. You're fighting a useless fight and you are, without a doubt, the minority.
finally Sony is suing someone who's jerking them around for a change.. though I doubt they'll get all that much out of people faking their entire product instead of just stealing a bit of patented tech.
Sony is acting like any other company would have in this case IMO. This isnt some sony specific *RAMPAGE* or anything.
Whoops...I guess I DID buy a fake one...I wondered how I got a 1GB memory stick for friggin ten dollars...Oh well, works good enough for me...
And yes, I'm sure that this makes Sony an evil company - like they need MORE money considering PS3 price. (poor attempt at sarcasm...)
#25 is a loser, wow. He definately takes the cake for being a loser.
urgh , i just bought a 2gb off ebay for cheap ... now i know it must be a fake one. $60 AUD for a 2gb memory stick seemed too good to believe
Yeah i got a fake...it was 75 bucks AU and is 2gigs. I love it lol. If it breaks...id still buy a fake. cus they are cheeap as the budgie sais.
omfg get over it sony they F U... Cking work quit your complaining, if it wasnt for them mem sticks i wouldnt buy a psp... cause it would cost over 300 AUD to get homebrew...
Lol sony are only doing this to crack down on hackers and xploiters wat a bunch of Toal Noobs!!!!!
Well from my experience fakes are significantly slower than the real deal.
I'm comparing against Sandisk cards here but my fake "sony" 2gb card is insanely slow compared to my real 1Gb SanDisk card.
So personally, from experience, i will allways stick with official SanDisk cards!
Marginally less space (if at all!) on the fakes doesn't bother me at all. What does bother me is taking more time to transfer files to stick than it would take to burn to disk on a crappy burner!
yeh bloody asians and there cheap rip-offs and scams. i bought a phone cable from hong-kong or something and it was full of SARS n ***** n broke after 2 days. SUE THEM FOR ALL THEY'VE GOT AND PUT 'EM OUT OF BUSINESS!
#64 you make yourself look like a real idiot with that SARS comment mixed it.
Yea those wakers making fake copies deserver to get owned for using the Sony brand name, and it should be the same for the fake Sandisk makers...
Still I recently went to China and got a Sandisk 2gb blue transparent memory stick, for $40 Australian, and I couldent belive it when I found it it was a real one
my ***** is real only spent 60 right on ebay 1959 megs
Mines a fake 2 gig got it for 20 GBP not much at all USD like 40 bucks and it runs perfect has done over last month i think fake rock since it means u dont need to go waste a fortune on the real thing just coz it says SONY
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what about this? http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/-/-/-/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=MSXM2GN .. it isnt fake.. its in the sony site!
69 that card costs $200.
Anyways I just got a 2GB card on ebay for $30