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."

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Re:Why should it matter?

[yatest5]

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.