I Saw Dasein

Really you should only be upset if you: 1. donated money, and 2. felt like you aren't getting the value of what you donated. I donated 5 bucks. I feel like I am getting at least 5 bucks worth of video. Why would I complain?

Aww I thought both those books were really good. They both would be great book club books in that they: (1) are easy, short, and well-written; (2) bear on timely subjects (e.g. security state, debt, social networking); and (3) are amusing and affecting in about equal measures.

That's true, but then the question becomes whether Sony is obligated to provide PSN access to everyone who has purchased a PS3, even when they do not want to comply with PSN's terms of use (which probably includes keeping firmware updated). So really people have a choice: continue using linux and most of the PS3's functionality but not PSN access, or give up linux in order to get access to PSN. Since I don't think that access to PSN can be seen as a "right" created by purchasing a PS3, I don't see this as problematic. Maybe an interesting point of comparison would be a product you purchase with a major online component, where the online component has been discontinued. Is a purchaser of Hellgate: London entitled to some right based on the inavailability of online functionality? I don't think so. So it's difficult to see why a fairly minor change to PS3 hardware which affects a minority of users would give those users a right against Sony.

In this case they did ask for permission in the sense that no one is required to update their firmware. Anyone adopting new firmware accepts new terms of use. So I don't think there is a problem in terms of getting consent or something.