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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. Interesting read ... by Rip!ey · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's an absolute gem buried at the bottom of the linked court ruling. It's worth picking your way through the rather poor Italian-to-English translation to find it it.

    Specifically, "So all the attempt to bind the purchaser with after-purchase statements are simply ridiculous ..."

    It would appear from this and the surrounding paragraphs that the Italian courts would take a less than favourable view of the enforcability of shrink-wrap/click-through agreements such as your average EULA.