divineo have stoped selling ps2 modchips

[seaneyb2003]

Well if you ever visited the uk you will know how much petrol cost yea.....

well the public are boycoting the big oil companys such as esso and bp. So they will lower the prices to other cometators and then other fuel stations like tesco and asda so on will lower till its a good price.......And its working!

[WordBringer]

Yeah if the shops stops the sells all in all i bet u there will be mod chip bootleggers selling them on fourm sites and such so i dout u will see the end of the mod chip and ps3 is comeing soon maybe this is why sony is trying to stop the modding so there ps3 will have high $ game prices/sells and the system will be unvialated with the mod chip installed.

[Quall999]

What if they make the chips reflashable, more or so like the xbox? All xbox modchips come with bios that are meant to run linux, which don't even boot original xbox games. It contains no MS code, or even software to bypass securities. It also, however, allows you to flash the chip with another set of bios in case a new linux bios is released. This makes the chips completely legal to sell, since they don't do anything to copy protections. People then find the hacked xbox bios on the net and flash it themselves.

Could playstation chip creators do something the same? I mean, if not a legal set of bios, just blank? Then, sony argueing saying that the chip can be modified to play backups, won't hold up to well, since anything can be modified to do something that it's not supposed to do. It's like a person buying a cable box, then modding it to become a blackbox. A cable company can't stop cable box venders from selling them because it can be modified to get free cable.