Big Brother Lawsuit Went Forward

The lawsuit against the 'Green Dam' was allowed to move forward by the court.

The Chinese government ordered all PCs to be sold in China equipped with the Green Dam, a content monitoring and censorship software. The measure faced with strong resistance from computer users in China. The government finally gave up after one year.

A US based computer security company cybersitter file a legal complaint against the Green Dam, alleging pirated code. Along the now non-existent producer of the Green Dam, major PC manufactures were listed as defendants because the software were installed by default.

SONY, Lenovo, Toshiba, Acer asked the court to dismiss the case, but failed.

Cybersitter, LLC
v.
The People's Republic of China, et al

2:10-cv-00038-GAF-SH

Sony Promised Stable Pricing on BluRay Players

SONY US CEO Stan Glascow announced that BluRay DVD players would enjoy a controlled pricing development after defeating Toshiba's HD-DVD as the only left standing DVD standard. The priority now is to persuade consumers to upgrade their DVD players.

Glascow stated that currently the bottom level of BluRay players were sold at $399. The bottom model price will be decreased to $299 on Christmas 2008, then $200 on Christmas 2009. Glascow also promised that the BlyRay players would enjoy a controlled descending in price rather than any free fall. SONY promised it would not license any Chinese manufacture to produce BluRay DVDs.

Before Chinese vendors joined the DVD player making business, a bottom model regular DVD was sold above $200 in a discount store like Wal-Mart. It could be bought at below $20 today.