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From BBC News
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1665000/1665566.stm)
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PlayStation foe sinks
The sinking of Bleem is not merely the collapse of yet another dot.com.
Try writing to the company, and this will be the reply:
"Thanks for emailing Bleem!, but we're history. Vapor. Kaput. Splitsville. Extinct. Gone the way of the Dodo. In a word, Dead."
Try logging onto the software maker's website, and all you'll see is the computer game hero "Sonic the Hedgehog" weeping over a gravestone which says "Bleem! April 1999 - November 2001".
Even the title of the website has changed; to "Game Over".
Legal battle
Bleem was brought to its knees by the mighty American legal system.
A year-and-a-half after its legal wrangles with the electronic giant Sony begun, the software maker has gone under.
It's no wonder.
After all, there was never any doubt about the way Sony would react to what Bleem was doing.
The company was making a software that enabled computer game fans to play Sony's PlayStation games on their PCs.
The so-called emulator software was sold for $5.99.
When Sony, predictably, sued the company, it counter sued, claiming that the electronics giant was exercising an illegal monopoly over the video game industry.
A brave move, perhaps, but a victory for the software maker never appeared likely.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1665000/1665566.stm)
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PlayStation foe sinks
The sinking of Bleem is not merely the collapse of yet another dot.com.
Try writing to the company, and this will be the reply:
"Thanks for emailing Bleem!, but we're history. Vapor. Kaput. Splitsville. Extinct. Gone the way of the Dodo. In a word, Dead."
Try logging onto the software maker's website, and all you'll see is the computer game hero "Sonic the Hedgehog" weeping over a gravestone which says "Bleem! April 1999 - November 2001".
Even the title of the website has changed; to "Game Over".
Legal battle
Bleem was brought to its knees by the mighty American legal system.
A year-and-a-half after its legal wrangles with the electronic giant Sony begun, the software maker has gone under.
It's no wonder.
After all, there was never any doubt about the way Sony would react to what Bleem was doing.
The company was making a software that enabled computer game fans to play Sony's PlayStation games on their PCs.
The so-called emulator software was sold for $5.99.
When Sony, predictably, sued the company, it counter sued, claiming that the electronics giant was exercising an illegal monopoly over the video game industry.
A brave move, perhaps, but a victory for the software maker never appeared likely.
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Slaveunit wrote:
> so do you like the x-sux as well or is it too sony like to charge for the dvd
> add on? :)
the x-sux doesnt have DVD. well it kind of does. i was reading a mag and it says it you need to get DVD as an add on. you can only get the official remote and the add on comes with that, you cant use the pad. it says its because royalty has to be payed per DVD machiene sold and most people have some form of DVD arround the house so only those who want it have to pay extra!
> so do you like the x-sux as well or is it too sony like to charge for the dvd
> add on? :)
the x-sux doesnt have DVD. well it kind of does. i was reading a mag and it says it you need to get DVD as an add on. you can only get the official remote and the add on comes with that, you cant use the pad. it says its because royalty has to be payed per DVD machiene sold and most people have some form of DVD arround the house so only those who want it have to pay extra!
Stryke wrote:
> But a DVD player swings it
I bet it does - but don't tie the string too tighly or you'll injure yourself.
> But a DVD player swings it
I bet it does - but don't tie the string too tighly or you'll injure yourself.
so do you like the x-sux as well or is it too sony like to charge for the dvd add on? :)
Slaveunit wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
> Oh no. I mourn beyond belief. How shall I live? Stupid PS
> monkeys. Although
> Stryke endorses PS2, because it comes with DVD
> player!
You're really starting to sound like a Ninty lately.... :)
Aaah. You wound me, sir. I am neutral. But a DVD player swings it, for me, the film fan. ;-)
> Stryke wrote:
> Oh no. I mourn beyond belief. How shall I live? Stupid PS
> monkeys. Although
> Stryke endorses PS2, because it comes with DVD
> player!
You're really starting to sound like a Ninty lately.... :)
Aaah. You wound me, sir. I am neutral. But a DVD player swings it, for me, the film fan. ;-)
Stryke wrote:
> Oh no. I mourn beyond belief. How shall I live? Stupid PS monkeys. Although
> Stryke endorses PS2, because it comes with DVD player!
You're really starting to sound like a Ninty lately.... :)
> Oh no. I mourn beyond belief. How shall I live? Stupid PS monkeys. Although
> Stryke endorses PS2, because it comes with DVD player!
You're really starting to sound like a Ninty lately.... :)
Oh no. I mourn beyond belief. How shall I live? Stupid PS monkeys. Although Stryke endorses PS2, because it comes with DVD player!
you could get a second hand PS1 for the price of bleem nowadays though....
the bleemcast disks were okay....
bleem for the pc was rather crap...
gran turismo 2 ran like a dream on bleemcast...
bleem for the pc was rather crap...
gran turismo 2 ran like a dream on bleemcast...
It wouldn't play Pro Evo, nuff said really..........
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