UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal

PhotoBoy writes "The Register has an article about the UK's High Court ruling PlayStation 2 modchips to be illegal. This means all homebrew and hobbyist coders in the UK can no longer modify their consoles to run games they have written. Gamers who like to mod their consoles to play games on import early are also out of luck. It's like saying you can't modify your car or your house or your clothes! Would Ford sue you for removing the rev limiter from your Focus?"

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Thank You For Rescuing Us Poor Illiterates

[Petersko]

Please note that this was the UK. Not the US as you may have assumed.

I know that, like all North Americans, when the first letters in a sentence are "UK" I immediately assume they really meant "U.S.A.". If you hadn't been here to correct things I might have gone on with an erroneous interpretation of the article.

Continue your good words, Stater of the Obvious. You are welcome here.

Re:Inane, asinine ruling from the governance? Get

[Emot]

Perhaps I'm a hobbyist, perhaps there are a whole lot of us who enjoy the use and operation of fully automatic weapons. Perhaps if you'd read the post I'd written, you can see that I want to build a BLANK-ONLY STEN so I can SHOOT GERMANS during WWII re-enactments. Douchebag.

Then again, if you've ever, you know, read that wacky crazy Bill of Rights that we have, you'd find that it's illegal for the government to prevent you from defending yourself from it. The 1934 machine gun ban is illegal the 1986 machine gun ban is illegal, the 1989 import ban is illegal and the 1994 assault weapons ban is illegal. Thankfully, that one is to expire this September and return to us some of our rights. Those of us who give a piss about our freedoms and rights are making baby steps toward returning our rights to us, despite the fact when the 1934 ban was enacted, war should have been declared on the Federal Government. Then again, war should have been declared upon the Federal Government when Prohibition was enacted, But I digress.

In short: Fuck you, AC. There are some of us out here that care about our rights, and care about your rights. And we'll defend you and your asinine, pudding-headed view of a socialist utopia, despite how wrong it is.

Re:Inane, asinine ruling from the governance? Get

[black mariah]

I love mental midgets. You guys are so fun to read. Look, douchebag, if you're so anti-goverment then get the fuck off you lazy fat fucking ass and do something about it. Bitching like a fucking whiny pussy on a goddamned forum isn't going to do a motherfucking thing. Either get off your ass and actually put some EFFORT into making change or SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU GODDAMNED RETARD.