I had one of these, in the UK at the time. We (myself and two other guys) put together a demo loosely based on “Rollerball”, which Sony were very encouraging about, but that’s not the point of this post.
I will always remember the NDA contract I signed… One of the terms was “If any of the terms of this contract are broken, financial reparation may not be sufficient”.
I’m assuming “your first-born child” or something was what they had in mind, but I was young, single and childless, so … <shrug>
I'm pretty sure they were insinuating that they can tell the cops to put you in jail over a civil contract violation. Might be true if they pulled some weird legal maneuver with copyright law.
When I worked in Japan, we did a shared project with an extremely large Japanese corporation. Because we shared source code with them and knew about their business plans, I was made to understand that if I were negligent (i.e. let my laptop get stolen on a train or something) and allowed the company secrets to be stolen, I could face huge fines and even jail time. This was only 5 years ago.
I will always remember the NDA contract I signed… One of the terms was “If any of the terms of this contract are broken, financial reparation may not be sufficient”.
I’m assuming “your first-born child” or something was what they had in mind, but I was young, single and childless, so … <shrug>