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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."
Why should copy protection matter? Once you buy the hardware, you logically should be able to do what you like with it, since you own it.
Not use copied games though. And there is NO OTHER reason why you would want to chip your PS, before everyone brings out the standard 'well why don't we ban guns / crowbars etc etc.' argument.
How about to play games from Japan? Or maybe you don't want to scratch up your original copies so use a cd-r copy to play.
The Japan one I can go with. But surely that's against Sony's rules too.
But I think you're pushing it with the 'backup' thing. Does anyone REALLy backup their games / CD's before use? Just what exactly is wrong with their PS that they get so scratched?
Some people do, yes. Its not the PS2 that scratches them, its kids and careless owners who don't look after them and leave their disks lying around in a heap on their bedroom floor etc. that scratches them.
I put it to you that if anyone actaully does make backups of their PS game, they are an anal freak.
Time for another useless fact: If every person on Earth owned 1000 Playstations, and had modded every one, and the quoted statement was true, then about 0,6 Playstations would have been modded using this reasoning.
I think we can see then that this is obviously not a valid argument for chipping PStations being legal.
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