UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal

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UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 21, 2004 @07:00AM from the perfectly-reasonable-don'tcha-think dept.

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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The Unsung Hero - Nuclear Energy by B64 · 2004-07-21 07:03 · Score: -1, Troll

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^Gna4 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-21 07:14 · Score: -1, Troll

is mired in an never heeded outreach Are was a7 the same
Why should everyone have the same laws as America? by t_allardyce · 2004-07-21 07:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Fucking pigs, fuck Tony he is getting the fuck out of my government, I want that bitch deported to the US the second the election is over. Mod chips are generally just blank PICs that have been programmed to give a certain output on seeing a certain input on their pins. As an engineering student this outrages me, no-one is going to tell me what I can and cant do with something as harmless as a PIC in my own home. If they want to ban selling these things then maybe I could live with that, but its my fucking God-given right to do this in my own home, just like it is to dance around listening to Britney spears. I bet this is Blunketts doing, that basterd would love to ban everything under the sun and start giving out curfews, infact the Taliban would have loved him - there, go find the remainder of them and join their club, maybe you can help them ban laughter and implement an iris scanning ID card system. Ok, thats the end of the rant, now its time for me to RTFA before I hit submit, wow Italy says its cool, and they have military conscription, maybe thats something else Blunkett could push on us. This really needs to be changed right now, possession for non-commercial purposes is legal, so why isnt use? The EUCD must be scrapped, bring on the PIC-ASM PS2 Mod-chip T-Shirts and lets go down Westminster and give it to them. After the pub that is..

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Re:Inane, asinine ruling from the governance? Get by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-21 08:01 · Score: -1, Troll

wtf do you need to make a machine gun for anyway you fucking fuck wit, oh no your right to make a weapon which has no other purpose than to kill is infringed upon, get a fucking clue and visit a psychologist to get over your obsession with items to kill with.
Re:European harmonisation by istartedi · 2004-07-21 08:12 · Score: 0, Troll

Interesting point, but you should try posting it in French. Starting in September all Slashdot postings must be in French. European harmonization, you know.

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Re:Inane, asinine ruling from the governance? Get by Emot · 2004-07-21 09:23 · Score: 0, Troll

I love mental midgets. Hey, likewise. I'm not the one being a flaming (haw) little faggot here on Slashdot, I'm one of many doing his part to restore our rights to us, rights taken from us illegaly by agents of the Federal Government. I'm active in my local political scene, I'm a registered voter, I'm a gunsmith and I'm a militiaman. It's my responsiblility to do everything in my power to do what I can to fix the things that are wrong with society. Discussing here about my travails with the BATF is not whining, which you are doing quite a bit of up there.
Bitching like a fucking whiny pussy on a goddamned forum isn't going to do a motherfucking thing.
No shit, cockhole. I'm not 'bitching like a fucking whiny pussy' but am actually doing things to exact change here on the local level. Democracy starts locally then projects Federally.
SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU GODDAMNED RETARD.
Hey! Right back at ya, pal o'mine!

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