Uh oh! This story might mark the end of Ken Kutaragi's wacky "The PS3 is a computer!" quotes. Because the UK Court of Appeal, in a fantastic legal fatality, has stomped down hard on Sony's flailing spine, denying that the PS2 qualifies as a home computer.

As we've mentioned before, the reason Sony is claiming the PS3 is a computer is because they want to avoid an expensive EU import levy. This is also the reason they released Linux for the PS2. But the UK courts saw through Sony's case for the transparent, largely semantic ploy it was.

Dismissing Sony's entire argument as a joke, Lord Justicee Chadwick said Sony's "skeleton argument" went "beyond what can be regarded as acceptable written advocacy." He continued:

I am not protesting about [the Sony appeal's] inordinate length, nor about its discursive quality, nor about its frequent and unnecessary resort to hyperbole, although all those unappealing features are present...

My concern is with the repeated aspersions that are cast in that document on the intellectual honesty of the High Court Judge from whose decision this appeal is brought.

Burned, Sony! BURNED. The UK Court of Appeals also denied Sony the right to bring the case to the European Court of Justice.

Court Opinion Here

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