Australia-U.S. Trade Agreement Takes First Strike

inflex writes "With the recent AU-US Federal trade ageement coming into force, the first signs of what is to come have started appearing with Sony unleashing a legal bid to clamp down on previously legal mods chips in Australia."

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another FP for the jihad

[bitmsk]

sacred jihad against slashdot's editors

multi zone DVD is next

[pbjones]

ah, the downhill slide to stupidity.

Simpsons reference

[The Amazing Fish Boy]

Also expect some law suits from Americans about the product you guys sell as "beer".

Wait, are we talking about coffee or beer?

Re:Bend over Aussies and...

[strider44]

Oktoberfest is the Germany's biggest import over here.

Living in Region 4

[ockegheim]

The devices override copy control mechanisms Sony builds into its consoles to block the use of pirated games and DVDs encoded for players built to operate in other regions.

For a while I've been building up a list of movies I want to show my girlfriend but that I can never seem to find in the local video shop. Yesterday I did a check, and surprise surprise, almost none of them are available as Region 4 disks. Of course these are obscure titles like Top Hat and The Impostors.

So if I had a PS2, Sony would want to tell me what I could watch or not. Good luck to them. Why on earth governments in Region 4 agreed to this crap in the first place is beyond me, but it would help if they don't enforce these rules.

German beer is overrated...

[Goonie]

Maybe I was just unlucky, but when I was over there cruising round the past two summers the beer wasn't spectacular. Most of the time the local brew was a pilsener that, while having a different label on it, tasted pretty much the same from town to town (and I tried beer in a considerable number of towns). Sure, it was better than Victoria Bitter, and immeasurably better than any of the abominations the major breweries make in America (if you ever want a laugh, go to epinions.com and read the reviews of Bud), but they were all in all pretty unremarkable.

Hefeweizen or dunkelweizen, now, some of them were pretty special. Amongst the food, the schnitzels and the bread were better than anything I've had elsewhere :)

Re:Bend over Aussies and... {off topic}

[hcob$]

Guns don't kill people; husbands who come home early kill people.