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Sony Planning to Drop $30 LocationFree License Fee
Posted by Sean Fallon at 1:00 PM on November 10, 2007
According to Maximum PC, sometime between now and the end of the month Sony will formally announce the end of their obnoxious $30 LocationFree PC serial key licence fee (rhyming!). Currently, if you want to install the software on multiple PCs you would have to cough up the extra dough. The move is believed to be in response to the stiff competition Sony faces from companies like Sling Media, who have always offered software for their Slingbox free of charge. [Maximum PC]
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BigReg
Posted 8:26 AM 10/11/07
SlingMedia does in fact offer some clients for free, but they very much do charge for mobile phone clients.
BigReg
Sora57
Posted 10:02 AM 10/11/07
Big fan of location free. We use it on the PSP all the time, where I can watch TV anywhere I get WiFi. It also controls my VCR and DVD player, so I can record, play videos as well-- all from the PSP. Also use it on my laptop. This is great news getting rid of the license fee!
Sora57
rimplestultskin
Posted 1:32 AM 11/11/07
thinking about getting LFTV and an apple TV box for YouTube...i keep stealing one of my friends' iPhones and it keeps getting errors trying to link up to the 'tube, it would be so much easier to run it on my PSP. especially since i spend so damn much unbricking it that i actually want to make it useful. haha
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