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Lik-sang's response to Sony lawsuits |
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Okay, remember Lik-Sang? The guys who let you pre-order PS3Â’s for no downpayment? Well, Judge Michael Fysh has recently ruled against Hong Kong-based Lik-Sang in a case brought by Sony to the High Court. In his ruling Judge Fysh said, "The acts of which the complaint is made have, in my view, been perpetrated not in Hong Kong but here in the EEA, and without Sony's consent."Lik-sang objects to this in an official statement saying that "Hong Kong's laws are clear when it comes to parallel trade, and the company has no ties whatsoever with the UK." The statement also says that Sony intends to obtain a UK injunction against Lik-Sang to prevent the company selling products to consumers in the EEA, and that the platform holder has "threatened to initiate yet another lawsuit to prevent the sales of PlayStation 3 consoles to Europe".
Lik-Sang Marketing manager Pascal Clarysse says that having to fight multiple lawsuits in multiple countries at the same time and having to pay high premiums for lawyers is a very daunting situation for a small company like Lik-Sang. He adds that the act of having multiple court actions with separate claims and different judges is something that is a bit redundant. Basically, Clarysse says that SonyÂ’s actions are "unnecessary, except for the fact that it helps reaching one single target: outspend Lik-Sang to death." The Marketing manager goes on to say that he believes that the sale of import PSPs is something that is not causing Sony to suffer losses and damages.
Lik-Sang is currently exploring its legal options.
Via GamesIndustry
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I can see why Sony want to limit/halt importing of goods, they want to be able to completly control the markets. However this WILL impact on Sony's profit margins due to the amount of people who import consoles to get games that are never released in our side of the world.
Its a hard one to say who is right and who is wrong on this one due to both sides of the argument, HOWEVER, in this case I really do feel that Lik-Sang shouldnt be singled out when there are many many other import sites out there. Instead of enforcing dinosaur management policies Sony need to get with the times and realise that the world is infact a global market these days dominated by the Internet.
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I say burn down lik-sang.
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Bit harsh to destroy a business over it and if you don't like Lik-Sang then don't buy from them, but to condemn them is being selfish to those of us who enjoy their service and to them, after all people gotta make a living.
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Now let's see, Sony does rootkits, Sony sues everyone and their mother, Sony tries to prevent people from getting their stuff outside their own overly restrictive terms...
Yeah, I'm seeing where Lik-Sang could be considered 'drunk with power' in comparison. Next thing you know Lik-Sang will invade Pakistan! They're drunk with power! Oh NOES! Everyone run from the Lik-Sang menace!
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Wath if I just bought a PSP when I'm in HongKong? Any laws against that? Think not.
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next, have you EVER hear of identity theft or credit card fraud via Lik Sang? No.
Next, would you rather that they simply took all credit card orders that came their way without checking the card's ownership?
You won't appreciate these kinds of steps until you've received 4 pages worth of credit card purchases which you've never made, so back off.
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my message to SONY:
If you can't provide the service that Lik Sang does or cater to the demand that only Lik Sang can supply, then ***** off. Not like they're pirates. They still provide legitimate Sony games so what's your problem???
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Why is sony reacting like this?
Just forbid em to sell ps3's untill their released in europe (march '07)
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I say Sony either A) Release All version of the products, in every country they have a market in OR B)Let Lik-Sang take care of releasing all versions
The only reason why I imported from there was the didn't release a certain version of their product in my country, and a as a result of that SCE has made some profit off of me twice for vitually the same product, if they only want profit off of me once for the same product so be it, but I don't see how any company could want that...
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And you're a *****ing *****got for standing up for a company that wants to steal your information. It's common sense rule #1 not to hand out private information. But you can go ***** yourself because I wasn't standing up for sony, I was complaing about how lik-sang has changed and now I use other import sites.
Besides, if you morons paid attention, nintendo and microsoft are in the lawsuit also. Only blaming sony makes you look like a *****ing idiot.
Your friend,
j00 got 0wnedz.
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O really? I thought it was the other way around with everyone and their mother's suing Sony.
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And hey, I do think (with no offense) that "They think we'll buy it like suckers" because over here in the US they've already begun buying them like suckers with preorders only lasting a couple minutes before they run out.
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Also, Sony has injusticed it's users many times.
Sure, Nintendo always comes out with a "Better Version" (Advanced SP/DS Lite) that costs more and makes people re-buy their portable consoles, and Microsoft tries make sure that anyone with a PC runs Windows, and is monopolizing as we speak.
Truth is, Sony is not suing because they have been injusticed, but because they want to put Lik-Sang out of business. It's a stupid and cowardly thing to do (No matter what "Part" of Sony is doing it)
Also, added note: If Puerto Rico were to, lets say, drop a nuke on Mexico. Guess who would be the blame? That's right, the good ole' US of A. Puerto Rico is part of the USA, nearly as much as if it were one of the states.
In a nutshell: STFU unless you actually know what you are talking about!
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there are other websites like: play-asia.com
at the moment this website its selling PSPs and PS3s, import games, basicly the same and even more thing than link-sang.
so here is the question: WHY SONY DOESNT SUITS THEM AS WELL???
P.S. play-asia.com its no the only website there more on the internet, so APARENTLY WHY SONY SUITS ONLY LINK-SANG?
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