Australian Federal Court Finds Mod Chips Not Illegal

Friendless writes "In contrast to the story earlier this week about the Ottawa man who was jailed for selling and installing mod chips, the the Australian ABC reports that the Australian Federal Court has found that installing mod chips is not illegal, because Sony failed to prove that a copyright protection measure was installed in the PlayStation in the first place. Here is the full judgement."

Comments

Re:Two things

[Jucius Maximus]

"Secondly, the story about the Ottowa man who was jailed for "selling modchips" was actually jailed because he had 417 pirated games that he was selling to customers. Christ, people, read more than the headline next time! "

What, is that how 'Ottawa' is spelled in Australian?

Re:Why should it matter?

[yatest5]

I think we can see then that this is obviously not a valid argument for chipping PStations being legal.

That was a joke, fool.


No, it makes it obvious that you should stop pulling imaginary figures from your ass, that you should stop trying to argue that chips should be illegal, and that you should posting altogether.


Ah - typical /.'er - 'You disagree, you must not post'.

In fact, it makes you a purile troll who thinks that somehow, your Slashdot Karma is important.

No. I am posting using my username, therefore losing assloads of karma. You are posting as AC, therefore losing no karma. So, who is it thinks Karma is important? You big, fat, sweaty puff.