Sony wins appeal overturning mod chip case |
(story: Sony Wins Australian mod-chip case) In the original case the courts found that Eddy Stevens hadn’t acted illegally when he sold Playstation 2 mod chips. These mod chips allow the copy protection efforts and the region codes on the CDs to be bypassed. Sony uses region codes to sell certain games in certain places, like Japanese games in Japan, for example. At Sony’s appeal yesterday to the federal court in Australia the judges overturned the original decision. Lawyers believe the implication of this decision is that copyright owners can enforce DVD encoding and CD copy protection.
I always thought it was odd how folks could legally sell these mod chips, although I don’t have a lot of sympathy for videogame console makers who have been milking videogamers for years, in my opinions, by making new hardware the focus instead of the games. What’s the point in the best, fastest, most killer technically superior hardware with no fun games to play?
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i think that mod chips should be illegal….i mean that would be like saying okay lets give a gun to a minor but don’t give him any bullets with the gun. does it make it right to give the person the device just because it doesn’t contain the main weapon?? I does however give you the opportunity to run down the road and find the missing item because now you have the obtained part 1 of 2. so does it make it right to give you the items to hack the box just because it’s missing the bios…i mean all you have to do is flash……lol i can’t preach to much though it does make it funner to beat the man…….when it’s illegal….
Comment by noob — October 9, 2005 @ 4:32 pm PST