modchip law change ?

[lufcfan]

Technically, can't we do something similar with chips in this country? Ship them blank and the mod companies should release an import only booting software and then people can change the code and allow them to play backups like the hacked cromwell BIOS on the 'Box???

[TylerDurden]

Yes but they still can regard the chip as a "tool" to hack copy protected matierial. There is probably a reason why M$ isnt using that reason to sue.




Tyler!

[ValHalla]

you can buy blank ps2 chips here {english in top rigth corner} and then flash them with ice code. But if you'rew in the UK as soon as you flash then woth ice code they will become Illegal.

[lufcfan]

It's obtaining that's the problem. If you could GET them, they can't really do ****, so they have to stop you getting them, and if they only have say software to boot imports instead of backups and imports, then they can't really say **** - as it's the end user who is hacking the chip, and the chip itself is not the illegal matter

Bit like Microsoft and the Linux Loaders...

[Renegade_Playa]

Well i feel sorry for people in the uk...here is australia modchipping is legal...sony took some guy in sydney to court for installing modchips from memory the judge said that if a person buys said product (PS2), it becomes their (buyers) property and can do whatever they want..but I think sony are appealing the decision or they have appealed and lost (it happened in 2002)

[Renegade_Playa]

Here i found the thing i was talking about..first reported on cdfreaks in 2002

Sony has failed persuade an Australian Federal Court that using modification chips necessarily violates copyright laws.

Honourable Justice Ronald Sackville ruled that Sony had failed to establish that mod chips constituted a "technological protection measure" that protected the copyright of its games software. If mod chips don't protect copyright then selling them does not violate copyright laws, he reasoned.

On this narrow basis the judge rejected the console maker's claim for damages against Sydney businessman Eddy Stevens for supplying mod chips. Stevens, however, was seperately found guilty of selling pirated games.

Although the ruling is been seen as a victory for PlayStation owners who use mod chips to play games bought outside Australia, the case merely establishes a lower threshold for what can be seen as effective copyright protections measures.

This is narrow victory for mod chip users, and one achieved , judging by the court documents, mainly made because Sony messed up the presentation of its case.

[lufcfan]

Our country sucks - it really doesn't suprise me to be honest...