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Australian Crackdown On Console Modchips Likely To Continue

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-over-down-under dept.

angry tapir writes "Late last week an Australian court issued an injunction against a handful of retailers selling or importing hardware — commonly known as 'mod chips' — that allows unauthorized software to run on Sony's PlayStation 3. The court also required that the four parties that were the subject of the injunction actually hand over to Sony any PlayStation modchips they have. Sony's PlayStation 3 mod chip lawsuit could be just the first of many such cases in Australia, according to a lawyer who defended a client against Nintendo in a similar case earlier this year."

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  1. Australia: The Lucky Country by slackarse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Come visit Australia, "The Lucky Country". I mean, come visit Australia, We will steal your internets, then we will steal your pr0n, now we will steal your gamez".

    Fuck it, don't visit Australia, because it's gone to the dogs already.

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    Come to Australia so we can strip search you and rob you of your internets, pr0n, rights and freedoms.
  2. What's With Australia? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is it with Australia? They want to filter the Intertubes in was that make Iran look like an island of freedom, they regulate games like some nanny from 1984 ( the book ), their proposed copyright laws cause orgasms for the record and movie cops... Are the people that propose these law actually elected and represent the views of the average Aussie?

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    1. Re:What's With Australia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      You're asking that about a country who had their elected prime minister axed and replaced earlier this year by his own party, and where recent elections resulted in a hung parliament where neither of the two major parties could form a majority.

      Answer: no, they don't, and Australia is generally getting pretty sick of it.