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Italian Court Rules PlayStation Modchips Are Legal

Posted by timothy on from the your-own-stuff dept.

cabalamat2 writes "An Italian court has ruled that PlayStation modchips are legal under the Italian version of the EUCD, because the modchips are not primarily intended to circumvent copyright protection measures, but to allow people to make backup copies of games (legal in Italy), play games not authorised by Sony, etc. The judge evidently wasn't impressed by what he called Sony's 'Absurd Restrictions' on usage."

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  1. Re:Reading the judgement makes me feel all warm an by ianezz · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I don't know if the text has been humanized

    Apparently not, the translation contains errors, but it attempts to be faithful: I may assure that the Italian version sounds pleasingly clear as well (which is not bad for a language where the same word is used both for "advanced" and for "leftover" :-).

    And yes, that's exactly the word being used: "ridiculous" (about shrink-wrap notices). Let's hope the meme is spread among other judges.

  2. Re:Reading the judgement makes me feel all warm an by obeythefist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well you know what they say, translation is like a mistress. Beautiful, or faithful, never both.

    Anyway, this isn't so amazing, we've been region-free and mod-chip friendly in Australia for ages. Hasn't destroyed Sony or Microsoft's gaming sales here, either.

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