Dear readers!
I have to thank you for the support you are giving me on SonyAlphaRumors. As you know I have to consider to change the domain name because of some “pressure” on my work here on SAR. I am still on hold to see if there is a chance to keep things how they are. I received more than 400 mails with domain name suggestion and support messages. Please understand that I cannot answer you all and I am writing this post to let you know that I read every single mail I got and it really helped me to get back some energy. Thanks again!
I want to make clear that I think so many people at Sony are doing a great work. It’s just pity “someone I don’t know” is trying to make my work on SAR a bit more diffcult. But I think in one way or another things will be solved soon.
And now let’s go back to work on Sony enws and rumors 😉
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Congrats! But what do u mean by
“I want to make clear that I full addicted to Sony “?
Dedicated maybe? 🙂
I hope that somebody in Sony has knocked some sense into their lawyers.
Really funny, fews months ago when XperiaBlog was threatened by SonyEricsson I told my friends that SE is not as nice as Sony as Sony is perfectly OK with a website called “Sony Alpha Rumors”….
I think the problem is that you cannot speak of Sony as one entity in these cases.
It would not suprise me if for instance the camera tech division and the commercial departments of Sony are perfectly happy with the free advertisement and exposure sites like SAR give to Sony’s products.
But on the other hand there might be the legal department which is usually oblivious to these kind of positive sides for having sites like SAR and are only interested in protecting trademarks and preventing information leaks.
Whatever the case is, I hope SAR will live on and comes out of this stronger than before.
Is it really the ‘force’ from xony? It’s so incredible for them to spend resources to stop this site.. Is it probably from other camps? For SAR is helping xony so much to promote and build its user group.. Anyway, good to hear SAR can still go on. Support you!
Admin: It’s two days away from the rumoured A77 firmware update. There have been non of the usual leaks on Sony websites.
Any news?
Good to hear that our support gave you an energy boost! You are really doing a tremendous job, Andrea!
In such a huge companies as e.g. Sony, there will of course be a bunch of narrowminded people too. I know that Dyxum have had some problems with Konica Minolta. Don’t know if they have had any substantial trouble with Sony though, except that some Sony figures will support only sites which essentially praise their cameras, but never critizise these.
Instead, Sony REALLY should SUPPORT sites as SAR and Dyxum, because you are both doing invaluable efforts in order to keep us users happy with our system, to awake interest from non-Sony users and to assure our continuing interest for the Sony brand instead of losing our patience and jump to CaNikon or something instead.
However!
Having said that, I can to some extent understand the reactions from Sony. When people find a sitename like Sony(something) on the net, the first thought would probably be that this is an official site from Sony. It is not too hard to imagine that Sony may not be entirely comfortable with this.
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why the heck are sonee messing with this site?! that’s whack!
sonee stay the F OFF!!!!
heres to sonyalpharumors !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for yr service guy!
Im impressed by your attitude towards Sony. Be it me, this web would went just to shutdown. 😀
Congratulation! I like this domain!!!!
In US, this wouldn’t even be an issue.
Sony is just saber rattling, trying to bully a little guy.
Lawyer up, keep it up, counter sue. Go to the media if you have to.
So call it Nikon-is-my-biatch-rumors. It isn’t accurate but then a lot of your “Sony’s sensor in a Nikon” stuff isn’t either. I call it rumortainment.
I actually hope you get shut down and someone with some sense takes on the job.
Just my 2 cents. Feel free to delete if you can’t take the criticism.
Sure don’t get much for 2 cents. If you don’t like the site stay off of it.
You don’t believe that Sony fabricates Nikon sensors? You can’t have seen the D7000 tear-down which shows Sony stamped on the sensor then. 😉
http://www.chipworks.com/media/wpmu/uploads/blogs.dir/4/files/2011/01/IMX071_diemrk.jpg
The 36 Mpixels sensor it’s also a Sony one (the silicon sensor itself). Nikon even confirmed that they are working with another company ,without naming names, and realisticaly there is no other company than Sony which makes a 36 Mpixel FF sensor right now.). Nikon adds the filter layers (in fact Sony adds them also but at Nikon specifications).
Nikon does their own processing , of course.
Come on, it’s the product of a collaboration. If it was Sony’s it’d be in a Sony camera. It isn’t, because it isn’t. It’s Nikon’s sensor made in co-operation with Sony.
Or is everyone here such Sony fanboys/brand fanatics you can’t accept it ?
You appear to be upset that a Sony badge is inside a Nikon, THAT is being a fanboy.
Haha… you wish. Guess again !
What I’d love to see is the return of the Minolta brand and their double dials.
Oh, and a decent editor here instead of the rabid brand fanatic that writes this site. It’s nauseating. No wonder people are tying to shut it down.
To Steve:
I have better suggestion. Change you nikname to Steve-Shit4you-FastInternet-Delivery. I call it goblinsation.
I personaly hope that more aggressive moderation can help to somebody can’t understand that there where some bounds exist.
Just one sent. Feel free to eliminate yourself if you can’t take the criticism.
Haha… I have no idea what shit4you-fastinternet-delivery means. Obviously it’s intended to be pejorative, but it doesn’t exactly sting if you know what I mean ? Try again ? Steve-is-a-fcukwit-on-the-internet ?
Following people’s logic here, an Apple iPad isn’t an Apple product at all, It’s ARM or some such.
Idiots.
Funny? You thinking it is Benny Hill show? Predictable…
I’ll decode it for you. Like there is fast food delivery, you are fast shit deliver using internet to reproduce your personal shit. Idiots? Start from your self. I know people of your kind.
Internet goblins, searching every possibility to drawn every conversation to its goblins level.
You think nobody knows that not every matrix in Nikon cameras designed by Sony? D3/D3s, D4, D700, D3100 is Nikons design. Yes matrix is not the whole camera, because of that D90 have shit colors by default, D7000 produces red faces and even very impressive D800 have some trouble with red channel.
I was laughing at your rubbish insult. I still don’t know what it means.
I even gave you an opening with a bad analogy to ARM. Apple get their out-sourced CPUs branded. Nikon design their own chips but they don’t get the Sony-fabbed ones branded. One wonders why.
But you missed this opportunity. SIGH. Can’t even get a decent argument going here.
No wonder Sony don’t like their name on this site. It’s not just the editorial, even the arguments are low grade.
I really don’t understand…
Sony have problems with word “Sony” in the domain name? If it is the issuer, it is very stupid issuer, because it is paranoia 🙁 Ones I worked in development libriries for using asymmetric keys. COO was tottaly paranoic about all connected to information about running projects, firm name and even the publication of customers names…
If this is about leaks publishing, it is Sony’s problem, not ours.
Who cares about what publication they like to see or they don’t like to see? Is this against the law? No? If no, Andrea just tell them to go to short erotic trip 😉
I think Sony is not so much concerned with using “Sony” in the name, but not to create the impression that the rumours here are “official” and sanctioned by them.Some people don’t understand what a rumour means, and get mad if Sony does not release something exactly as was rumoured one year ago.May be simply Sony PR here.
I know another company which will sue an apple farm if would use the fruit name in their domain name, however… 🙂
“I know another company which will sue an apple farm if would use the fruit name in their domain name, however…”
Ya, I know…this is so stupid. I never belive that such a behavior can bring respect to firm.
Good to see that common sense appears to have prevailed.
I always find this site interesting and enjoyable. Hopefully you can now get on with running it
You keep interest in Sony cameras alive. Without you I would not even know that Sony is developing anything and would have given into Nikon’s recent release. Sony should be thanking you.
Just ignore them!!!! They can threaten you all they want. And mostly these things are hot air. You have a dedicated user base of Sony customers who appreciate your services and understand your contribution to sony’s mission. It would be hard for them to act without causing themselves some grief.
Either way, all the best with the situation.
To Steve:
I am so right about you. You think you are laughing? Laughing this is some thing that given for mankind only. You are shadow only, poor excuse.
Arguments?
http://nikonrumors.com/2012/03/28/nikon-d3200-coming-in-april-with-a-24mp-sensor-and-many-new-features.aspx/
Is this some kind of new Nikon sensor? A?
You don’t need arguments. You are here not for some argument or discussion. You are here for feeding. For every argument you will tell that my ass divided to three peaces or even for British flag and for argument you will bring certificate form ophthalmologist that you have 100% eyesight.
“Happy those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, Nor go the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers”(C) PSALM-1
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