Sony does the bully thingie

I'm not into the whole gaming scene --last RPG game I owned was Diablo II-- but the news about Sony doing the bully dance just pissed me off royally. Here's the background.

We all know that all the high tech thingamajingies by these asian makers are always released first in Japan and only months later in North America and Europe. Want the latest cellphone? Try shopping in Seoul. Want the coolest add-on for your PSP? Tokyo is the place to be. So what's a hardcore gamer to do? That's what some smart entrepeneur in Hong Kong thought about before starting up Lik Sang. Lik Sang is (or was) an online retailer specialized in supplying those same high tech gadgets to buyers in North America and Europe. Buying directly from the source country, mainly Japan, Lik Sang would then resell the goods to those gamers who couldn't wait half a year to get their hands on the latest hardware. That's until Sony sued Lik Sang in a London court last year for copyright infringement and other crap to stop the online retailer from selling PSP consoles in Europe before their official release there. This week the same London court ruled in favour of Sony, paving the way for other manufacturers to initiate action against Lik Sang.

According to Lik Sang's website, they have decided to close shop because "With this precedent set, next week could already be the stage for complaints from Sony America about the same thing, or from other console manufacturers about other consoles to other regions, or even from any publisher about any specific software title."

The sucky thing is that Lik Sang was not selling pirated software or consoles. All they did was buy from Sony and resell to people who wanted these products. The precedent is that, if you live in Europe, you can't sell your used console to someone else. The console that you bought and belongs to you to do as you wish. You can't sell it if you don't like it anymore. You can't get rid of it if you get a newer better one. In other words, once you buy a Sony console you're stuck with it like it or not. Hurray for your rights to resell something you legitimatelly buy. Hurray for Sony.