re: Have you lost your corporate mind?

It wasn't enough that you got in trouble for installing "root kits" on computers that play your musical CDs. Alienating your musical listeners wasn't enough. Now you've decided to patent technology that would prevent gamers from trading or selling games to play on their PS3.

Did your marketing department fail to remind you that computer gaming is a 6.2 billion a year industry? Do you really want to kill the PS3 by making sure your gamers keep their PS2s? Have you forgotten that a nearly ">13% increase in game rentals has helped keep console games sexy while you advance the chipsets and graphics engines?

DO YOU EVEN WANT TO SELL YOUR PS3?

Music fans may be forgiving for this sort of foolishness - though I doubt it - but gamers? No way. They'll never forget this and they'll take their money elsewhere.

Congratulations, you've just became Bill Gates' best friend.

What's next? Are you going to scuttle your video business as well? Course, from what I hear, you're well on your way with the release of Zorro 2.