http://www.PetitionOnline.com/liksang8/petition.html
This is the link to click if you believe Sony overstepped it's bounds in suing Lik-Sang into oblivion. While Sony would like to deny their responsibility for this travesty, it's forcing them to play stupid (which they've been pretty good at lately) by saying their multiple lawsuits didn't directly cause Lik Sang to shut down. However that's dependent on the lie that they weren't aware Lik Sang was not a huge multinational corporation like themselves; unable to defend themselves in all the countries in which they were sued.
For those of you who don't know, Lik Sang was a web shop where one could buy imported games, hardware, and peripherals which are either not available internationally or un-licenced and therefore not sold in all stores. I've bought items there which I couldn't even find in Chinatown. Such as my GBA Movie Player which I use everyday; mostly for reading ebooks and listening to music at the same time. My psp doesn't even do that.
What Sony wanted was revenge on a scapegoat. They blamed Lik Sang for ruining the European market for PSPs when they started selling import PSPs to European customers before the official European release. Some of those who made the purchase were actual high level Sony Europe executives adding the indignity of hypocrisy to this scandal. It was this (Sony claims) which caused the PSP to sell so poorly in Europe rather than the fact that the smell had drifted over from America and Asia where we were already growing bored with the PSP.
While I am mostly just upset about the closing of this site which provided a great service to us gamers, I am left wondering why our friends in Europe always have to wait for new games and hardware. In the case of the PSP, they had to wait so long, everyone lost interest. Currently, Dawn of War: Dark Crusade (which is based on a tabletop battle game from the UK) is out in America a month ahead of Europe. The idea came from Europe and they have to wait.
Well I can't answer that question but I can ask you to sign the petition which will be sent to the High Court of London as well as Sony. While that may not actually DO anything, you can at least let them know that they can't intentionally hurt the gaming community like this and still expect us to buy their overpriced and frail hardware.
When Sony says and does stupid things like this, it just makes me want to sh*+ in my PS2 and send it directly to Phil Harrison.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/liksang8/petition.html