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Sony vs Modchips
Cryptnotic writes "Sony
has decided to instigate legal action against companies distributing two new Playstation 2 modchips, the Messiah and the NEO4. Sony has previously ignored modchip makers who made products which were only capable of playing CD-R copies of games. These new modchips, however, have legitimate uses, such as playing original import games or out-of-region DVD's. Aparrantly this is what has angered Sony." If I could read Kanji I'd probably care a bit more ;)
Lest we all forget, the fact that copied Dreamcast games could be played WITHOUT a modchip (and that they were easy to copy in the first place) more or less killed this console... I think Sony is just rightfully looking after their best interests.
Just like the medical marijuana movement, there is a great deal of intellectual dishonesty in the gaming community surrounding mod chips. The illegitimate uses of these paticular chips far outweight the semi-legit ones.
Backups are a red herring - it is technically infeasable right now to back up PS2 games, and may remain so well into the future. I don't think PS2s will even read DVD-Rs... The only possible use for the 'backup' features is software piracy. To say otherwise is to brand yourself an idiot. Be honest here people, you just want to play 'backups' downloaded off IRC. Stop whining about this and just admit you want to steal games, and accept that Sony is going to try and do something about it!
In a perfect world, there would be exactly two functions performed by a PS2 mod chip - DVD region code breaking and PS2 region breaking. Region coding is the biggest bunch of bullshit that the world has ever seen, and circumventing it doesn't even result in lost revenues.
There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
"AFAIK, it's well within our rights to play an import game or movie on a chipped station."
The argument presented by many people is laughable at best. Yes, but is that "chipped" station legitmate. You are circumventing the copy-control methods of the device and are therefore breaking the law (under the DMCA). Isn't this the hurdle that DeCSS faced? Hmmm.
Has no one learned that big business runs the US and owns it's liberties?
Freedom is a delusion that pacifies the huddled masses. Democracy is a parlour trick and Justice is a farce.
Price, Quality, Time. Pick none. What, you thought you had a choice?
Shut the fuck up, you want a mod chip so you can play warez.