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Australia-U.S. Trade Agreement Takes First Strike

Posted by timothy on from the waittaminute-that-isn't-by-the-people-for-the-people dept.

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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  1. Living in Region 4 by ockegheim · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    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.

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