{"id":5858,"date":"2010-04-29T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"guy-sues-sony-for-removing-linux-support-from-ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/5858-guy-sues-sony-for-removing-linux-support-from-ps3","title":{"rendered":"Guy sues Sony for removing Linux support from PS3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5526847\/playstation-3-owner-files-class-action-suit-against-sony-for-dropping-other-os?skyline=true&amp;s=i\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>, Anthony Ventura has filed a class action lawsuit against Sony because they removed Linux support from the PS3 with a recent patch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sony&#8217;s decision to force users to disable the Other OS function was based on its own interest and was made at the expense of its customers,&#8221; reads Ventura&rsquo;s suit. Ventura is seeking damages for each member of the class action suit, which covers everyone who bought a PS3 between November 2006 and March 27, 2010. The legal documents indicate an amount in excess of $5 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&rsquo;m no legal professor, but this just seems ridiculous. If you are really unhappy about the removal of Linux support, then do what<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/63236\" target=\"_blank\"> this guy did<\/a>, and try your luck getting a refund from the place you bought it. But suing Sony for removing a feature which was discovered to make pirating games for the PS3 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/5676-Sony-remove-Linux-functionality-from-PS3-fat.html\" target=\"_self\">possible<\/a>, seems a bit unreasonable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sure some of you will disagree with me though, so flame away<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?5532-Dude-sues-Sony-over-removing-Linux-from-PS3&amp;p=212582#post212582\" target=\"_self\"> in the forums.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not happy about the end of Linux for PS3? neither is Anthony Ventura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}