I found this little piece interesting

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by DS I don't think that's why they fought the lawsuit. They gave it a shot and now they're paying for it. Not much to do now but pay.

IT's a corporation. One branch of Sony sues for Copyright infringement based on the sales of CD-Rs, another one sells them, and a third creates better ways to use them.

It's possible that they were confident their technology was different enough not to incur such problems, and were willing to try that in court. Or maybe they are a big corporation who thought they could get away with it. Or maybe they don't have a fucking clue, because one branch didn't know the other end of the "In house" technology.

There's a lot of reasons that are possible, and we don't know.

It looks, however, like Sony's already started making an effort to pay.