News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills. Parent comment

Re:Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their tread... by not2b on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:30PM (#29989159)
Looks like this was partly successful against Sony but it took six years in court and people didn't get the whole price back when they removed Linux support from the PS3:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-r...

Litigation is expensive, pretty much the only way it can be done in the US is as a class action where the number of people ripped off is large.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their tread... by R0b0t1 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @12:09AM (#29990205)
Those damages were assigned with the assumption that most people didn't buy a PS3 to run Linux on it. If you opted out of the class action I have no doubt you would have gotten a full refund.
[ Parent | on HN ]