On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Michael Motyka wrote: > The whole fucking thing is absurd. The idea that I can't hack around > with a piece of HW that I paid for is OBSCENE. Not that I am in the > least interested in aibo but the priciple is a real problem.
Sony is very nazi about it (which is the reason I never buy anything from them). I'm surprised you never ran into policies of Sony or several other Japanese companies.