{"id":996985,"date":"2026-03-09T08:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996985"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:27:50","slug":"sony-faces-2-7-bn-class-action-from-uk-playstation-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/09\/sony-faces-2-7-bn-class-action-from-uk-playstation-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony faces $2.7 bn class action from UK PlayStation users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese entertainment giant Sony will face a \u00a32 billion ($2.7 billion) class action lawsuit starting Tuesday in London, accused of allegedly breaching competition law by overcharging millions of UK PlayStation users. <\/p>\n<p>The claimants&#8217; website accuses Sony of &#8220;exploiting its UK customers&#8221; for nearly a decade by charging them &#8220;too much for PlayStation digital games and in-game content&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This case seeks to bring that conduct to an end and to secure compensation for those affected,&#8221; consumer campaigner Alex Neill, who brought the action on behalf of an estimated 12.2 million users, told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese entertainment giant Sony will face a \u00a32 billion ($2.7 billion) class action lawsuit starting Tuesday in London, accused of allegedly breaching competition law by overcharging millions of UK PlayStation users. The claimants&#8217; website accuses Sony of &#8220;exploiting its UK customers&#8221; for nearly a decade by charging them &#8220;too much for PlayStation digital games and in-game content&#8221;. &#8220;This case seeks to bring that conduct to an end and to secure compensation for those affected,&#8221; consumer campaigner Alex Neill, who brought the action on behalf of an estimated 12.2 million users, told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}