Chip a Playstation, Go to Jail

perogiex writes "A man in Ottawa was convicted of selling and installing mod chips out of his computer store. Sony is overjoyed, man is less than thrilled. This is the first time such a case was tried in Canada." From the article: Garby said he didn't know he was committing a crime and would have never gotten involved in selling mod chips if he had known the law. Update: 07/24 21:53 GMT by M : Headline corrected; it's clearly mod chips for the original Playstation, not the Playstation 2.

Comments

Re:wait a second...

[kiwimate]

But it's rather more dubious to void your warranty by installing a chip deliberately designed to bypass copy protection and allow owners to run pirated games. Therein lies the problem for this chap...

Re:Slashdot is trolling you again.

[smoondog]

Troll bait, but, frankly, I agree.

-Sean

Re:Ignorance is no excuse.

[Xaoswolf]

I've seen a few japanese games, and there was no doubt in my mind that the games were morally good. I think that everybody on the earth should have a chance to control a squid that is making love to a Japanese school girl, of course, I didn't know they made these games for the PS2, might have to go buy one...