Games Thirst – Amazing Life
And so it’s happened. After the armada of lawsuits Sony faced following the hacking of PSN, the firm’s gone on to amend its terms and conditions for PSN, and the revised version has rather fighting language. In essence if you’re looking to sue Sony for anything PSN-related in the future, you won’t be gaming on the online service any longer.
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Gamasutra says the new section, Binding Individual Arbitration, states that when users accept the agreement, they will also be giving up the option to open a class action suit pertaining to online services.
It reads:
“Any Dispute Resolution Proceedings, whether in arbitration or court, will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class or representative action or as a named or unnamed member in a class, consolidated, representative or private attorney general action, unless both you and the Sony entity with which you have a dispute specifically agree to do so in writing following initiation of the arbitration.”
Sony did went on to make clear however, that the amended portion may not be held up in court, hence leaving the dispute to be handled entirely by he court as to how the case should move forward.
It reads:
“If the Class Action Waiver clause is found to be illegal or unenforceable, this entire Section 15 will be unenforceable, and the dispute will be decided by a court and you and the Sony Entity you have a dispute with each agree to waive in that instance, to the fullest extent allowed by law, any trial by jury.”
You could read the full thing here.
