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US Air Force may soon be involved in class action lawsuit vs. Sony

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  1. Dei

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    Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update
    By Nate Anderson

    When Sony issued a recent PlayStation 3 update removing the device's ability to install alternate operating systems like Linux, it did so to protect copyrighted content—but several research projects suffered collateral damage.

    The Air Force is one example. The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York picked up 336 PS3 systems in 2009 and built itself a 53 teraFLOP processing cluster. Once completed as a proof of concept, Air Force researchers then scaled up by a factor of six and went in search of 2,200 more consoles (later scaled back to 1,700). The $663,000 contract was awarded on January 6, 2010, to a small company called Fixstars that could provide 1,700 160GB PS3 systems to the government.

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    lol
     
    #1 Dei, May 13, 2010
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    Ooooopsie!
     
    #2 IROC it, May 13, 2010
  3. geeimsobored

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    It's the US military, they're not going to **** around and sue them.
     
    #3 geeimsobored, May 13, 2010
  4. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    Someone brought up the "what if" scenario with the Air Force in another thread, I assumed something would be done. Guess not. Sucks for the Air Force, I don't see what Sony did wrong though.
     
    #4 Ziggy, May 13, 2010
  5. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    They could just give the air force the ability to back rev the firmware.
     
    #5 rockbox, May 13, 2010
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    you can't turn off auto-update?
     
    #6 g1184, May 14, 2010
  7. Uprising

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    Says in the article....
     
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