Australian Commisssion Defends Playstation Mod-Chipping

newt writes "The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is intervening in a court case to defend Sony Playstation owners' right to modify their consoles to play imported games. The ACCC is submitting a friend of the court brief, arguing that Sony's regional playback controls are unlawful. This has implications for DVD region zoning too: The ACCC has previously published its concerns about DVD regioning, and its latest press release about this case reiterates the problems presented to Australian consumers by Sony's practices."

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This is +5 Insightful?

[El Camino SS]

First of all, it is written by an Aussie that thinks he knows so much about US law and political history that he claims that Americans have a ho-hum attitude about their rights.

in America, those groups simply claim that the government can't do that (whatever that may be) because of the Constitution - hence some people simply say "oh well, doesn't seem too important anyway

Wow! I didn't know I thought that way. Thanks Aussie! It clarifies a lot about my personality. God bless that Aussie insight! Cuz I don't know where I'd be without pedantic generalizations.

Here's another great zinger...

in Australia, we value those freedoms much more

Which explains that 'Aussie War of Independence'.... and the fact that the Aussies have had entire generations spending billions of dollars promoting democracies all over the globe. Unlike those xenophobic Americans that closed off their borders. LOL. :P

At the end of the day I would just like to say please ask the people what they think instead of relying on conjecture and dinner party talk.

LOL... when you see +5 insightful on a post like that, you really need a sense of humor on /.