Sony rant

Sony piss me off. They are a shitty company that seems to hate Europe and the rest of the world in general.

They did the shitty evil rootkit thing on their audio CDs
They took out native PS2 hardware on their European model PS3s from the word go, thus limiting backwards compatibility and performance for European users of older games.
The PS3 doesn’t support open, free, libre, codecs like OGG Vorbis for music, even though there really should be nothing stopping an implementation of it. The only reason they don’t support it is so they can push a proprietary standards agenda. Obviously cost is a factor in developing it, but really, the code must be pretty portable and the userbase for OGG Vorbis can’t be so small as to be ignored, surely?
They are a big DRM proponent.
Nothing good by Sony gets released in Europe, especially the UK, until months after a US/Japanese release. Even with their online store. Seriously, what is the deal, in this modern age of being able to transfer huge amounts of data anywhere in the world at ridiculous speeds, what possible reason is there for not doing simultaneous releases, at least for online content? Nothing but bureaucracy and hating Europe as fair as I can see.

Despite all this, I own a PS3, but Sony consistently makes me feel unvalued as a customer and generally a second class citizen compared to the US. Fuck you Sony!

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