Sony made a bunch of CCD chips out of plastic rather than ceramic.
Internal lens separates allowing moisture into chip,
ruining picture (and camera).
Rather Play Pinball

Not questioning the validity of the story.

Had you followed the link I provided,
you would have seen the groups to which this bozo has posted this.

He doesn't appear to be an electronics buff nor a camera buff.
He has multi-posted this particular item to 14 groups.
His ISP (generously) allows 9 groups before they call it spamming.

The only continuity in his posting history
appears to be multi-posting about litigation.