Reply To: OFW 3.56 = Spyware

[MasterP]

Since Chrome’s release I at least skim every EULA but yeah you’re definately right. The thing is that console makers constantly change the EULA and basically say that by updating to version X you accept the updated EULA. The EULA from release date is often significantly different than that of the current OS version, for all the major consoles and handhelds.

 

The big thing, in my mind anyway, is that all 3 companies single out piracy as the reason why they’re strict on this even though most of us that modify our consoles don’t do so to pirate games. Wii owners wanted DVD playback, PS3 owners are just trying to get back a feature they had when they originally bought their consoles, and XBOX owners are, well, idk, . The question that’s developing is whether or not YOU, the consumer, own the console or are you simply renting it? You bought it, took it home, plugged it in but the manufacturer is still reaching out and dictating what you can and cannot do with it. Congress spent years going after cell phones for this sort of thing, I can’t imaigne why these guys would be going out of their way to use the same business practices that got them in so much trouble.

 

Every consumer knows that’s wrong but I don’t think anyone is upset enough to sue over it. They’d probably win, it’s definately an immoral business practice, but no one wants to go risk the money required to go against a major company.

 

It’s kinda like when they sued manufacturers over false advertising in wireless networking gear, it took one really brave person to start the domino of lawsuits. They all settled, of course, which is why they can still put 54Mbit as an actually achieveable bandwidth on wireless G devices, but the concept is the same. You’re buying something but you either can’t use it to it’s fullest extent or were lied to about the features it had.