While I am the lone Canuck on the TGF site, I have to let it be known that this is not something I am proud of but I am reporting on it none the less.
A 21 year old Canadian female has decided to take it upon herself to sue Sony and all its entities from the great “Up North” and every PSN users within it.
21-year old Natasha Maksimovic thinks that Sony owes C$1 billion ($1.04 billion) in damages to PSN users. The suit was announced on Monday by the Toronto law firm of McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP, with Sony Canada, Sony USA, and “other Sony entities” being named as defendants.
The firm filed the class action suit on behalf of the 21 year old Canadian, who’s a resident of Mississauga, Ontario. Described as a years-long PlayStation user, the lawsuit quotes Maksimovic as being outraged due to the PSN data theft and outage.
“If you can’t trust a huge multi-national corporation like Sony to protect your private information, who can you trust?” asked Maksimovic in a statement. “It appears to me that Sony focuses more on protecting its games than its PlayStation users.”
The class action proposes the C$1 billion in damages should be used to pay for “costs of credit monitoring services and fraud insurance coverage for two years.”
Now it is still unclear if she plans on sharing any of that lawsuit money (if she wins…) with the rest of the 77 million or so PSN users that were affected by the outage. I can only hope that somebody talks some sense to Natasha before Sony sends it pitbull lawyers to fight it.
Source: CBC.ca
