[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Chainfire:
Heh, sorry folks I've been a tad slow in responding here, I have a lot of other business to attend to.

As how far I have personally come with a lawsuit: not far. As I've stated before, I can't personally do a lawsuit as it would not be feasable to do it over here, so I can't be the person actually doing that part. To be honest, I have also put it off a bit to see first what HTC's response would be.

Now we have that response, the question becomes "what is wisdom".

As dissected by various people here as well as on the site, their statement doesn't actually say a hell of a lot. And what of the promised update? We do see the responses from HTC getting consistent now with that statement and no other information, and though several people have asked HTC for clarification, there has been no response to that yet.

The PR must have already been really bad for HTC. Counting people stating they are putting their buying on hold - including several heads of IT departments, I'd give a rough estimate of about 1 million USD in lost sales right now.

There are several courses of action that we can now take:

Wait

We could wait and see if this patch that has so often been mentioned by support and other HTC and provider personnel well actually come. Chances are not big, I would say - though it would only be a week or two for those 'promises' to expire. It would be the easiest thing to do, but it would also relieve the pressure and possibly play right into HTC's hand.

More pressure

Keep hammering the news sites (as well as real newspapers) and keep trying to get them to publish. Keep hammering HTC as well as providers like AT&T and T-Mobile. The new "HTC gives customers the finger" angle is possibly a good one that journalists will eat up. More bad PR for HTC, giving a bit more pressure, but no guarantee if it will help.

Up the stakes

Put the lawyers into play. Yes, there have been several people who stated they would head it (like ceevee), several lawyer recommendations, and several people in with the legal systems (in various countries) willing to give some advice. Perhaps it is time we take this step, especially combined with the above More pressure it might make things happen. I guess the biggest problem here would be the funds to pay the lawyers, so there would have to be a 'fundraiser' of some sort, though I've seen other people state that in the US these lawsuits are usually done for a percentage. How sweet would it be to launch simultaneous lawsuits in the US, the UK, Germany and Taiwan (just a thought) ?

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For as far as I am willing to take this is only one answer: as far as it goes. I have put about 4 weeks fulltime work into this already (if you count the driver hacking attempt, the website, all the e-mails and contacts, etc), I will continue to support a lawsuit by any means I can. This will mostly come down to more of the same, as I can't actually partake in the lawsuit myself (see above), but what I can do, I will do.

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So, you tell me. What time is it?

Personally I'm inclined to wait for the 'clarification' responses from HTC before actually filing. We should also take into account we have no absolute proof the hardware is there and not disabled. We have several (all unofficial) responses from HTC, providers, and a certain other company, but that doesn't really get us anywhere. It's just extemely likely.

Right, think about it and respond.