SONY Loses Chipping Court Cases
 

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If only we lived in Australia

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Too late. Here it has already been decided under EU copyright protection legislation.

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EU:sniper:

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the EU is meant to be there to provide an open market and stop monopolies.. they've already messed about with football and ruined the transfer system and number of foreigners but i can't see how they are helping any members of the EU with the chipping thing on xbox and ps2s

we've already got region dvds which means that the studios can make more money and control when films are released in each country which doesn't help us now we can't by a game a foreign PS2 game and play it.. how does that help me as a consumer!! i sense a back hander to the EU here

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Presumably it isn't illegal to use a multi-region capable DVD player (like mine)? I remember Tesco selling them a couple of years back with a sheet explaining how to do it.

Although the EU have a directive on it, that hasn't stopped Spain and Italy declaring mod chips legal - it's still down to the individual country's courts to decide on each case.

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And that stops it happening.... nope not a little bit.

I once was in a shop which was offering it, in my local town centre.

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Let's be honest, this won't be causing too many problems for the general public who've been doing this for many years.

Sony have a greater problem with me - my PS1 hasn't been switched-on in nearly a year. :D

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Perfectly legal AFAIK.


The thing with console mod chips is that not only do they let you play DVDs & games from other regions, they also let you play copied games - which is where the copyright violation comes in.



I'm sure I read something recently about how decisions in Australian courts can sometimes affect decisions in UK courts & vice versa... so maybe if a case went high enough in the UK a judge could actually use the Australian ruling as a precedent. Or I could quite easily be completely wrong lol.

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Maybe, but all it means is that in Australia it is NOT illegal, whereas here it IS!