theyarecomingforyou wrote on Sep 24, 2011, 11:54:
The US has always prioritised businesses over the rights of individuals and the saying "the customer is always right" only exists to placate customers and retain them long term - it's designed to make businesses more money, not look after consumers. The US is the only country to have prided itself on "trickle-down economics", which has proven to be a fallacy. The EU has a much better track record of protecting the rights of consumers, as evidenced by the rulings against Microsoft, Intel and the telecoms industry in recent years.

EA and Sony are contributing to the legal and moral quagmire with the sole aim of limiting their exposure and protecting their profits. Nobody should support a business trying to bypass the legal system to protect their shareholders. And your assertion that it's to avoid "trivial lawsuits" implies is completely subjective, as who decides what is or is not trivial? The whole point is that the legal system decides that and this is an attempt to short-circuit that process to save money.