Sony can update PS3 firmware without asking

[gregmcc]

http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/4/22/sony-can-update-ps3-firmware-without-asking/

What particularly caught our beady eye is the sentence "Some services may be provided automatically without notice when you are online" which basically means that Sony can do whatever the hell it wants to do to the content of your PS3 without notifying you or asking your permission.

 

[The_Assimilator]

For posterity, the original version of the EULA states:

Some services may be provided automatically without notice when you sign onto SCE's online network...

which may not sound too different - but if I'm reading correctly, the old EULA would provide updates only when connected to the PlayStation network, as opposed to the new one which can provide updates any time your PS3 is connected to the Internet.

And this is yet another reason why I'll never buy an Apple product or a console. You don't buy the product, you buy a license to use it, nothing more.

 

[Peder]

For posterity, the original version of the EULA states:



which may not sound too different - but if I'm reading correctly, the old EULA would provide updates only when connected to the PlayStation network, as opposed to the new one which can provide updates any time your PS3 is connected to the Internet.

And this is yet another reason why I'll never buy an Apple product or a console. You don't buy the product, you buy a license to use it, nothing more.

how does apple and sony get put together?!?

although sony aint lekker in their heads...